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Strother Martin

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

Known For: Acting

Born: Kokomo, Indiana, USA, 1919-03-26

Died: 1980-08-01

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Asphalt Jungle	William Doldy (uncredited)	75
2	1950	The Damned Don't Cry	Springboard Diver (uncredited)	71
3	1951	Rhubarb	Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)	55
4	1951	The Red Badge of Courage	Corporal (voice) (uncredited)	64
5	1952	Storm Over Tibet	Co-pilot	60
6	1952	Androcles and the Lion	Soldier (uncredited)	58
7	1953	The Magnetic Monster	Co-Pilot	56
8	1953	South Sea Woman	Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)	54
9	1954	World for Ransom		50
10	1954	A Star Is Born	Delivery Boy (uncredited)	71
11	1954	Drum Beat	Scotty	60
12	1954	The Silver Chalice	Father (uncredited)	44
13	1955	Kiss Me Deadly	Harvey Wallace	72
14	1955	Strategic Air Command	Airman	61
15	1955	The Big Knife	Stillman	59
16	1955	Target Zero	Pvt. Dan O'Hirons	53
17	1956	World Without End	Nihka (uncredited)	58
18	1956	Johnny Concho	Townsman (uncredited)	37
19	1956	Attack	Ingersol	68
20	1956	The Black Whip	Thorny	0
21	1957	Copper Sky	Pokey	60
22	1957	Black Patch	Petey	54
23	1958	Cowboy	Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake	64
24	1958	Bitter Heritage	Earle Eheeler	0
25	1959	The Shaggy Dog	Thurm	61
26	1959	The Wild and the Innocent	Ben Stocker	63
27	1959	The Horse Soldiers	Virgil	69
28	1961	Sanctuary	Dog Boy	51
29	1961	The Deadly Companions	Parson	57
30	1962	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Floyd	78
31	1963	Showdown	Charlie Reeder	59
32	1963	McLintock!	Agard	66
33	1964	Invitation to a Gunfighter	Fiddler	59
34	1965	Brainstorm	Mr. Clyde	62
35	1965	Shenandoah	Train Engineer	69
36	1965	The Sons of Katie Elder	Ned Ross	70
37	1966	Harper	Claude	67
38	1966	An Eye for an Eye	Trumbull	75
39	1966	Nevada Smith	Strother (uncredited)	68
40	1967	The Flim-Flam Man	Lovick	70
41	1967	Cool Hand Luke	Captain	77
42	1967	The Mountains of the Moon	O'Keefe	0
43	1969	True Grit	Colonel G. Stonehill	73
44	1969	The Wild Bunch	Coffer	76
45	1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Percy Garris	76
46	1970	The Ballad of Cable Hogue	Bowen	70
47	1971	Red Sky at Morning	John Cloyd	67
48	1971	The Brotherhood of Satan	Doc Duncan	58
49	1971	Fools' Parade	Lee Cottrill	68
50	1971	Hannie Caulder	Rufus Clemens	62
51	1972	Pocket Money	Bill Garrett	53
52	1973	The Boy and the Bronc Buster	Buckshot	0
53	1973	Sssssss	Dr. Carl Stoner	52
54	1975	Mitzi & 100 Guys	Self	0
55	1975	One of Our Own	LeRoy Atkins	0
56	1975	Hard Times	Poe	68
57	1975	Rooster Cogburn	Shanghai McCoy	64
58	1976	The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday	Billy	50
59	1977	Slap Shot	Joe McGrath	68
60	1978	The End	Dr. Waldo Kling	55
61	1978	Up in Smoke	Mr. Stoner	67
62	1978	Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy	Turtle Ranch Boss	77
63	1978	Steel Cowboy	Pinky Pincus	0
64	1978	Stubby Pringle's Christmas	Old Hollander	0
65	1979	Love and Bullets	Louis Monk	59
66	1979	Nightwing	Selwyn	47
67	1979	The Champ	Riley	70
68	1979	The Villain	Parody Jones	57
69	1979	Better Late Than Never	J.D. Ashcroft	0
70	1980	The Secret of Nikola Tesla	George Westinghouse	61
71	1980	Hotwire	The Weasel	50
72	2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self (archive footage)	74

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Bellhop	73
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Teeples	73
3	1951	I Love Lucy	Man in Coffee Shop	79
4	1951	Dragnet		64
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Old Hollander	86
6	1952	Dangerous Assignment		35
7	1952	Chevron Theatre		100
8	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Tom Blair	63
9	1952	Cavalcade of America	Wilkins	35
10	1953	General Electric Theater	Gunnery Officer Daly	63
11	1953	General Electric Theater	Obie	63
12	1953	The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse	Waiter	0
13	1954	The Lone Wolf	Nick Davis	70
14	1954	Lassie		61
15	1954	Studio 57	Pete Dutton	0
16	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Buckshot	78
17	1955	The Millionaire	Pete Hill	50
18	1955	Gunsmoke	Mr. Stooler	66
19	1955	Gunsmoke	Cooter	66
20	1955	Gunsmoke	Ed Davey	66
21	1955	Gunsmoke	Dooley	66
22	1955	Gunsmoke	Dillard	66
23	1955	Gunsmoke	Rowley	66
24	1955	Gunsmoke	Gene Bunch	66
25	1955	Gunsmoke	Billy	66
26	1955	Gunsmoke	Timble	66
27	1955	Gunsmoke	Ben Snow	66
28	1955	Navy Log		45
29	1955	Crossroads	Landry Kersh	50
30	1955	Matinee Theater		50
31	1956	Telephone Time		63
32	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		45
33	1956	Broken Arrow	Renton	50
34	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Joby	55
35	1957	Panic!		0
36	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
37	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Carew	74
38	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Fred Coombs	74
39	1957	Perry Mason	Pete Gibson	77
40	1957	Perry Mason	Joe Mead	77
41	1957	Perry Mason	Gerald Sommers	77
42	1957	Perry Mason	Roy Hutchinson	77
43	1957	Trackdown	Benny French	64
44	1958	Jefferson Drum	Pete Henke	45
45	1958	The Texan	Polk Blackston	55
46	1958	Lawman		56
47	1958	77 Sunset Strip	Charles Sloane	67
48	1959	Rawhide	Bates	72
49	1959	Black Saddle	Pit Thatcher	60
50	1959	Bonanza	Lonnie Stern	75
51	1959	Bonanza	Joad Bruder	75
52	1959	Bonanza	Cole Younger	75
53	1959	Bonanza	Little Meredith Smith	75
54	1959	Bonanza	Yuri	75
55	1959	Hotel de Paree		50
56	1959	The Twilight Zone	Mothershed	84
57	1959	The Rebel	Jess	51
58	1960	Pete and Gladys		65
59	1961	Ben Casey		56
60	1961	The New Breed	Benny Kohler	70
61	1961	The Dick Van Dyke Show	Harper Worthington Yates	75
62	1962	The Virginian	Finley	65
63	1962	The Virginian	Luther Watson	65
64	1962	Stoney Burke		57
65	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
66	1963	The Dakotas		57
67	1963	The Lieutenant	Taxi Driver	60
68	1963	The Fugitive	Deputy Shirky Saulter	72
69	1964	Daniel Boone	Solomon Tarbot	69
70	1964	Gilligan's Island		74
71	1964	Profiles in Courage	Senator James Wadsworth	50
72	1965	Run for Your Life	Holly Amberton	72
73	1965	The Legend of Jesse James	Meeker	48
74	1965	Lost in Space	Nerim	71
75	1965	The Big Valley	Dan'l Hawks	61
76	1965	The Big Valley	Fludd	61
77	1966	Tarzan		67
78	1967	The Invaders	Charlie Coogan	68
79	1967	He & She	The Rev. Mr. Anderson	47
80	1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett		62
81	1967	The Danny Thomas Hour	Paul Rooney	50
82	1968	It Takes a Thief	Willard Knox	70
83	1968	The Name of the Game	Nanyface	68
84	1968	The Doris Day Show	Tyrone Lovey	53
85	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Terry Riggs	65
86	1969	Love, American Style		61
87	1971	Nichols	Zachariah	50
88	1972	The Rookies		68
89	1973	Hawkins	R.J. Hawkins	72
90	1974	Petrocelli	Clate Dobie	71
91	1974	Movin' On		52
92	1974	Paper Moon		63
93	1974	The Rockford Files	Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers	75
94	1975	Baretta		63
95	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
96	1978	Vega$		70