Strother Martin
Born: 1919-03-26 in Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Died: 1980-08-01
Known For: Acting
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."
Filmography
2004
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
1980
- Hotwire as The Weasel
- The Secret of Nikola Tesla as George Westinghouse
1979
- The Villain as Parody Jones
- The Champ as Riley
- Love and Bullets as Louis Monk
- Nightwing as Selwyn
- Better Late Than Never as J.D. Ashcroft
1978
- Vega$
- Up in Smoke as Mr. Stoner
- The End as Dr. Waldo Kling
- Steel Cowboy as Pinky Pincus
- Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy as Turtle Ranch Boss
- Stubby Pringle's Christmas as Old Hollander
1977
- Slap Shot as Joe McGrath
1976
- The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday as Billy
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Baretta
- Rooster Cogburn as Shanghai McCoy
- Hard Times as Poe
- Mitzi & 100 Guys as Self
- One of Our Own as LeRoy Atkins
1974
- The Rockford Files as Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
- Petrocelli as Clate Dobie
- Movin' On
- Paper Moon
1973
- Sssssss as Dr. Carl Stoner
- Hawkins as R.J. Hawkins
- The Boy and the Bronc Buster as Buckshot
1972
- The Rookies
- Pocket Money as Bill Garrett
- The Flim Flam Man as Lovick
1971
- Nichols as Zachariah
- Hannie Caulder as Rufus Clemens
- Fools' Parade as Lee Cottrill
- The Brotherhood of Satan as Doc Duncan
- Red Sky at Morning as John Cloyd
1970
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Bowen
1969
- Love, American Style
- Marcus Welby, M.D. as Terry Riggs
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Percy Garris
- True Grit as Colonel G. Stonehill
- The Wild Bunch as Coffer
1968
- The Name of the Game as Nanyface
- It Takes a Thief as Willard Knox
- The Doris Day Show as Tyrone Lovey
1967
- The Invaders as Charlie Coogan
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Cool Hand Luke as Captain
- He & She as The Rev. Mr. Anderson
- The Danny Thomas Hour as Paul Rooney
- The Flim-Flam Man as Lovick
- The Mountains of the Moon as O'Keefe
1966
- Tarzan
- Nevada Smith as Strother (uncredited)
- Harper as Claude
- An Eye for an Eye as Trumbull
1965
- The Big Valley as Dan'l Hawks
- Lost in Space as Nerim
- Run for Your Life as Holly Amberton
- The Legend of Jesse James as Meeker
- The Sons of Katie Elder as Ned Ross
- Shenandoah as Train Engineer
- Brainstorm as Mr. Clyde
1964
- Daniel Boone as Solomon Tarbot
- Gilligan's Island
- Profiles in Courage as Senator James Wadsworth
- Invitation to a Gunfighter as Fiddler
1963
- The Fugitive as Deputy Shirky Saulter
- The Lieutenant as Taxi Driver
- The Dakotas
- McLintock! as Agard
- Showdown as Charlie Reeder
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as Finley
- Stoney Burke
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Floyd
1961
- Ben Casey
- The Dick Van Dyke Show as Harper Worthington Yates
- The New Breed as Benny Kohler
- The Deadly Companions as Parson
- Sanctuary as Dog Boy
1960
1959
- Bonanza as Lonnie Stern
- The Twilight Zone as Mothershed
- Rawhide as Bates
- The Rebel as Jess
- Black Saddle as Pit Thatcher
- The Horse Soldiers as Virgil
- The Shaggy Dog as Thurm
- Hotel de Paree
- The Wild and the Innocent as Ben Stocker
1958
- Lawman
- 77 Sunset Strip as Charles Sloane
- The Texan as Polk Blackston
- Jefferson Drum as Pete Henke
- Cowboy as Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
- Bitter Heritage as Earle Eheeler
1957
- Perry Mason as Pete Gibson
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Trackdown as Benny French
- Panic!
- Black Patch as Petey
- Copper Sky as Pokey
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Joby
- Telephone Time
- Broken Arrow as Renton
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Attack as Ingersol
- World Without End as Nihka (uncredited)
- Johnny Concho as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Black Whip as Thorny
1955
- Gunsmoke as Mr. Stooler
- Matinee Theater
- Navy Log
- The Millionaire as Pete Hill
- Kiss Me Deadly as Harvey Wallace
- Crossroads as Landry Kersh
- The Big Knife as Stillman
- Strategic Air Command as Airman
- Target Zero as Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
1954
- Lassie
- Studio 57 as Pete Dutton
- The Lone Wolf as Nick Davis
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Buckshot
- A Star Is Born as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- Drum Beat as Scotty
- The Silver Chalice as Father (uncredited)
- World for Ransom
1953
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Waiter
- General Electric Theater as Gunnery Officer Daly
- South Sea Woman as Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
- The Magnetic Monster as Co-Pilot
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Tom Blair
- Cavalcade of America as Wilkins
- Dangerous Assignment
- Chevron Theatre
- Androcles and the Lion as Soldier (uncredited)
- Storm Over Tibet as Co-pilot
1951
- Dragnet
- I Love Lucy as Man in Coffee Shop
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Old Hollander
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Bellhop
- The Red Badge of Courage as Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
- Rhubarb as Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
1950
- The Asphalt Jungle as William Doldy (uncredited)
- The Damned Don't Cry as Springboard Diver (uncredited)