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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 26, 1919
Died
August 1, 1980
Place of Birth
Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Strother Martin
1.2 Popularity
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."
Known For
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
5.0
The Weasel
Hotwire
1980
6.2
George Westinghouse
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
1980
0.0
J.D. Ashcroft
Better Late Than Never
1979
5.7
Parody Jones
The Villain
1979
7.0
Riley
The Champ
1979
4.7
Selwyn
Nightwing
1979
5.9
Louis Monk
Love and Bullets
1979
0.0
Old Hollander
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1978
0.0
Pinky Pincus
Steel Cowboy
1978
Credits
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.8
Hotwire
as The Weasel
1980
5.0
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
as George Westinghouse
1980
6.2
Better Late Than Never
as J.D. Ashcroft
1979
0.0
The Villain
as Parody Jones
1979
5.7
The Champ
as Riley
1979
7.0
Nightwing
as Selwyn
1979
4.7
Love and Bullets
as Louis Monk
1979
5.9
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
as Old Hollander
1978
0.0
Steel Cowboy
as Pinky Pincus
1978
0.0
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
as Turtle Ranch Boss
1978
7.7
Vega$
1978
7.0
Up in Smoke
as Mr. Stoner
1978
6.6
The End
as Dr. Waldo Kling
1978
5.5
Slap Shot
as Joe McGrath
1977
6.8
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
as Billy
1976
5.0
Rooster Cogburn
as Shanghai McCoy
1975
6.4
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Hard Times
as Poe
1975
6.8
One of Our Own
as LeRoy Atkins
1975
0.0
Mitzi & 100 Guys
as Self
1975
0.0
Baretta
1975
6.4
The Rockford Files
as Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
1974
7.6
Movin' On
1974
6.4
Paper Moon
1974
6.5
Petrocelli
as Clate Dobie
1974
7.2
Sssssss
as Dr. Carl Stoner
1973
5.2
The Boy and the Bronc Buster
as Buckshot
1973
0.0
Hawkins
as R.J. Hawkins
1973
7.2
The Rookies
1972
6.8
Pocket Money
as Bill Garrett
1972
5.4
Hannie Caulder
as Rufus Clemens
1971
6.2
Nichols
as Zachariah
1971
5.0
Fools' Parade
as Lee Cottrill
1971
6.5
The Brotherhood of Satan
as Doc Duncan
1971
5.7
Red Sky at Morning
as John Cloyd
1971
6.7
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Bowen
1970
6.9
Love, American Style
1969
6.1
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Terry Riggs
1969
6.5
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as Percy Garris
1969
7.6
The Wild Bunch
as Coffer
1969
7.6
True Grit
as Colonel G. Stonehill
1969
7.3
The Doris Day Show
as Tyrone Lovey
1968
5.8
The Name of the Game
as Nanyface
1968
6.8
It Takes a Thief
as Willard Knox
1968
7.2
The Mountains of the Moon
as O'Keefe
1967
0.0
Cool Hand Luke
as Captain
1967
7.7
The Danny Thomas Hour
as Paul Rooney
1967
5.0
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.2
He & She
as The Rev. Mr. Anderson
1967
4.5
The Flim-Flam Man
as Lovick
1967
7.0
The Invaders
as Charlie Coogan
1967
6.8
Tarzan
1966
6.7
Nevada Smith
as Strother (uncredited)
1966
6.7
An Eye for an Eye
as Trumbull
1966
7.6
Harper
as Claude
1966
6.6
Lost in Space
as Nerim
1965
7.1
The Big Valley
as Dan'l Hawks
1965
6.1
The Big Valley
as Fludd
1965
6.1
Run for Your Life
as Holly Amberton
1965
7.2
The Legend of Jesse James
as Meeker
1965
4.8
The Sons of Katie Elder
as Ned Ross
1965
7.0
Shenandoah
as Train Engineer
1965
6.9
Brainstorm
as Mr. Clyde
1965
6.0
🎬
Profiles in Courage
as Senator James Wadsworth
1964
5.0
Invitation to a Gunfighter
as Fiddler
1964
5.9
Gilligan's Island
1964
7.4
Daniel Boone
as Solomon Tarbot
1964
7.0
McLintock!
as Agard
1963
6.6
The Fugitive
as Deputy Shirky Saulter
1963
7.2
The Lieutenant
as Taxi Driver
1963
6.0
Showdown
as Charlie Reeder
1963
5.9
The Dakotas
1963
5.7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Stoney Burke
1962
5.7
The Virginian
as Finley
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Luther Watson
1962
6.4
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Floyd
1962
7.8
The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Harper Worthington Yates
1961
7.5
The New Breed
as Benny Kohler
1961
7.0
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Ben Casey
as Frank Geray
1961
5.6
The Deadly Companions
as Parson
1961
5.6
Sanctuary
as Dog Boy
1961
4.8
Pete and Gladys
1960
6.0
The Rebel
as Jess
1959
4.7
The Twilight Zone
as Mothershed
1959
8.5
🎬
Hotel de Paree
1959
5.0
Bonanza
as Lonnie Stern
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Joad Bruder
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Cole Younger
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Little Meredith Smith
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Yuri
1959
7.5
The Horse Soldiers
as Virgil
1959
7.0
The Wild and the Innocent
as Ben Stocker
1959
6.3
The Shaggy Dog
as Thurm
1959
6.2
Black Saddle
as Pit Thatcher
1959
6.0
Rawhide
as Bates
1959
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
as Charles Sloane
1958
6.7
Lawman
1958
5.6
The Texan
as Polk Blackston
1958
5.5
Bitter Heritage
as Earle Eheeler
1958
0.0
🎬
Jefferson Drum
as Pete Henke
1958
4.5
Cowboy
as Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
1958
6.3
Trackdown
as Benny French
1957
6.4
Perry Mason
as Pete Gibson
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Joe Mead
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Gerald Sommers
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Roy Hutchinson
1957
7.7
Black Patch
as Petey
1957
5.4
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Carew
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Fred Coombs
1957
7.3
Copper Sky
as Pokey
1957
6.0
Panic!
1957
0.0
The Black Whip
as Thorny
1956
0.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Joby
1956
6.0
🎬
Broken Arrow
as Renton
1956
5.0
Attack
as Ingersol
1956
6.8
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
5.0
Johnny Concho
as Townsman (uncredited)
1956
3.7
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
World Without End
as Nihka (uncredited)
1956
5.8
Target Zero
as Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
1955
5.3
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
The Big Knife
as Stillman
1955
6.0
Crossroads
as Landry Kersh
1955
5.7
🎬
Navy Log
1955
4.5
Gunsmoke
as Mr. Stooler
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Cooter
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Ed Davey
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Dooley
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Dillard
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Rowley
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Gene Bunch
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Billy
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Timble
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Ben Snow
1955
6.6
Kiss Me Deadly
as Harvey Wallace
1955
7.2
Strategic Air Command
as Airman
1955
6.0
The Millionaire
as Pete Hill
1955
5.0
The Silver Chalice
as Father (uncredited)
1954
4.4
Drum Beat
as Scotty
1954
6.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Buckshot
1954
7.8
A Star Is Born
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1954
7.1
Studio 57
as Pete Dutton
1954
0.0
Lassie
1954
6.1
The Lone Wolf
as Nick Davis
1954
7.0
World for Ransom
1954
5.0
🎬
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
as Waiter
1953
7.0
South Sea Woman
as Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
1953
4.4
The Magnetic Monster
as Co-Pilot
1953
5.6
General Electric Theater
as Gunnery Officer Daly
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Obie
1953
6.4
Androcles and the Lion
as Soldier (uncredited)
1952
5.8
Cavalcade of America
as Wilkins
1952
3.5
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Tom Blair
1952
6.7
Storm Over Tibet
as Co-pilot
1952
6.0
🎬
Chevron Theatre
1952
10.0
Dangerous Assignment
1952
3.5
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Old Hollander
1951
8.6
Dragnet
1951
6.4
I Love Lucy
as Man in Coffee Shop
1951
7.9
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Bellhop
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Teeples
1951
7.2
The Red Badge of Courage
as Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
1951
6.4
Rhubarb
as Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
1951
5.3
The Damned Don't Cry
as Springboard Diver (uncredited)
1950
7.0
The Asphalt Jungle
as William Doldy (uncredited)
1950
7.5