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Strother Martin

Actor

Strother Martin

26 March 1919† 1 August 1980 (aged 61) Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Movies
73
Shows
72

Biography

Strother Martin (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American actor in numerous films and television programs. Martin is perhaps best known as the prison "captain" in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, where he uttered the line, "What we've got here is...failure to communicate."

IMDb

Known For

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

7.61969

Cool Hand Luke

7.71967

The Wild Bunch

7.61969

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

7.81962

The Twilight Zone

8.51959

True Grit

7.31969

Up in Smoke

6.61978

The Asphalt Jungle

7.51950

Bonanza

7.51959

Slap Shot

6.81977

Kiss Me Deadly

7.21955

A Star Is Born

7.11954

The Sons of Katie Elder

7.01965

The Horse Soldiers

6.91959

McLintock!

6.61963

Gilligan's Island

7.41964

I Love Lucy

7.91951

Hard Times

6.81975

Rooster Cogburn

6.41975

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

7.01970

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

8.02004

Hotwire

6.01980

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

6.21980

Better Late Than Never

9.01979

The Villain

5.81979

The Champ

7.01979

Nightwing

4.91979

Love and Bullets

5.81979

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

7.01978

Steel Cowboy

9.01978

Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy

7.81978

Up in Smoke

6.61978

The End

5.61978

Slap Shot

6.81977

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

5.11976

Rooster Cogburn

6.41975

Hard Times

6.81975

One of Our Own

10.01975

Mitzi & 100 Guys

2.01975

Sssssss

5.11973

The Boy and the Bronc Buster

1973

Pocket Money

5.61972

The Flim Flam Man

1972

Hannie Caulder

6.21971

Fools' Parade

6.61971

The Brotherhood of Satan

5.81971

Red Sky at Morning

7.11971

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

7.01970

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

7.61969

The Wild Bunch

7.61969

True Grit

7.31969

The Mountains of the Moon

1967

Cool Hand Luke

7.71967

The Flim-Flam Man

7.01967

Nevada Smith

6.71966

An Eye for an Eye

7.41966

Harper

6.71966

The Sons of Katie Elder

7.01965

Shenandoah

7.01965

Brainstorm

6.11965

Invitation to a Gunfighter

5.91964

McLintock!

6.61963

Showdown

6.11963

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

7.81962

The Deadly Companions

5.61961

Sanctuary

5.41961

The Horse Soldiers

6.91959

The Wild and the Innocent

6.41959

The Shaggy Dog

6.21959

Bitter Heritage

8.01958

Cowboy

6.51958

Black Patch

5.91957

Copper Sky

6.71957

The Black Whip

10.01956

Attack

6.81956

Johnny Concho

4.51956

World Without End

5.71956

Target Zero

6.11955

The Big Knife

6.01955

Kiss Me Deadly

7.21955