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Strother Martin

Strother Martin

Birthday: 1919-03-26 | Place of Birth: Kokomo, Indiana, USA

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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Strother Martin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1980
Hotwire

as    The Weasel

1979
Love and Bullets

as    Louis Monk

1979
The Villain

as    Parody Jones

1979
The Champ

as    Riley

1979
Nightwing

as    Selwyn

1978
The End

as    Dr. Waldo Kling

1978
Up in Smoke

as    Mr. Stoner

1977
Slap Shot

as    Joe McGrath

1975
Hard Times

as    Poe

1973
Sssssss

as    Dr. Carl Stoner

1972
Pocket Money

as    Bill Garrett

1972
Hannie Caulder

as    Rufus Clemens

1971
The Brotherhood of Satan

as    Doc Duncan

1971
Red Sky at Morning

as    John Cloyd

1971
Fools' Parade

as    Lee Cottrill

1970
The Ballad of Cable Hogue

as    Bowen

1969
The Wild Bunch

as    Coffer

1969
True Grit

as    Colonel G. Stonehill

1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

as    Percy Garris

1966
An Eye for an Eye

as    Trumbull

1965
Brainstorm

as    Mr. Clyde

1961
The Deadly Companions

as    Parson

1959
The Wild and the Innocent

as    Ben Stocker

1957
Black Patch

as    Petey

1957
Copper Sky

as    Pokey

1956
Attack

as    Ingersol