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
- The Secret of Nikola Tesla as George Westinghouse
- Hotwire as The Weasel
1979
- The Villain as Parody Jones
- The Champ as Riley
- Nightwing as Selwyn
- Love and Bullets as Louis Monk
- 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
- Stubby Pringle's Christmas as Old Hollander
- Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy as Turtle Ranch Boss
1977
- Slap Shot as Joe McGrath
1976
- The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday as Billy
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Baretta
- Hard Times as Poe
- Rooster Cogburn as Shanghai McCoy
- 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
1971
- Fools' Parade as Lee Cottrill
- Nichols as Zachariah
- Hannie Caulder as Rufus Clemens
- Red Sky at Morning as John Cloyd
- The Brotherhood of Satan as Doc Duncan
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
- He & She as The Rev. Mr. Anderson
- Cool Hand Luke as Captain
- The Danny Thomas Hour as Paul Rooney
- The Mountains of the Moon as O'Keefe
- The Flim-Flam Man as Lovick
1966
- Tarzan
- Harper as Claude
- Nevada Smith as Strother (uncredited)
- An Eye for an Eye as Trumbull
1965
- Lost in Space as Nerim
- The Big Valley as Dan'l Hawks
- Run for Your Life as Holly Amberton
- Shenandoah as Train Engineer
- The Sons of Katie Elder as Ned Ross
- The Legend of Jesse James as Meeker
- 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
- McLintock! as Agard
- The Lieutenant as Taxi Driver
- Showdown as Charlie Reeder
- The Dakotas
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as Finley
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Floyd
- Stoney Burke
1961
- The Dick Van Dyke Show as Harper Worthington Yates
- Ben Casey
- The New Breed as Benny Kohler
- Sanctuary as Dog Boy
- The Deadly Companions as Parson
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
- The Wild and the Innocent as Ben Stocker
- Hotel de Paree
1958
- Lawman
- The Texan as Polk Blackston
- 77 Sunset Strip as Charles Sloane
- Cowboy as Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
- Jefferson Drum as Pete Henke
- Bitter Heritage as Earle Eheeler
1957
- Perry Mason as Pete Gibson
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Trackdown as Benny French
- Black Patch as Petey
- Copper Sky as Pokey
- Panic!
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Joby
- Telephone Time
- Johnny Concho as Townsman (uncredited)
- Broken Arrow as Renton
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Attack as Ingersol
- The Black Whip as Thorny
- World Without End as Nihka (uncredited)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Mr. Stooler
- Matinee Theater
- Navy Log
- The Millionaire as Pete Hill
- Target Zero as Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
- Crossroads as Landry Kersh
- The Big Knife as Stillman
- Strategic Air Command as Airman
- Kiss Me Deadly as Harvey Wallace
1954
- Lassie
- Studio 57 as Pete Dutton
- Drum Beat as Scotty
- A Star Is Born as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- The Lone Wolf as Nick Davis
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Buckshot
- The Silver Chalice as Father (uncredited)
- World for Ransom
1953
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Waiter
- The Magnetic Monster as Co-Pilot
- South Sea Woman as Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
- General Electric Theater as Gunnery Officer Daly
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Tom Blair
- Cavalcade of America as Wilkins
- Chevron Theatre
- Androcles and the Lion as Soldier (uncredited)
- Dangerous Assignment
- Storm Over Tibet as Co-pilot
1951
- I Love Lucy as Man in Coffee Shop
- Dragnet
- The Red Badge of Courage as Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Old Hollander
- Rhubarb as Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Bellhop
1950
- The Asphalt Jungle as William Doldy (uncredited)
- The Damned Don't Cry as Springboard Diver (uncredited)