Strother Martin

Known for: Acting

Born: 1919-03-26 – 1980-08-01 (aged 61)

From: 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."

Filmography (147)

MOVIE★ 8.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.0
Hotwire
1980
as The Weasel
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
1980
as George Westinghouse
MOVIE★ 9.0
Better Late Than Never
1979
as J.D. Ashcroft
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Villain
1979
as Parody Jones
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Champ
1979
as Riley
MOVIE★ 4.8
Nightwing
1979
as Selwyn
MOVIE★ 5.9
Love and Bullets
1979
as Louis Monk
MOVIE★ 7.0
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1978
as Old Hollander
MOVIE★ 9.0
Steel Cowboy
1978
as Pinky Pincus
MOVIE★ 7.8
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
1978
as Turtle Ranch Boss
TV★ 6.9
Vega$
1978
MOVIE★ 6.6
Up in Smoke
1978
as Mr. Stoner
MOVIE★ 5.6
The End
1978
as Dr. Waldo Kling
MOVIE★ 6.8
Slap Shot
1977
as Joe McGrath
MOVIE★ 5.1
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976
as Billy
MOVIE★ 6.4
Rooster Cogburn
1975
as Shanghai McCoy
TV★ 6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
MOVIE★ 6.8
Hard Times
1975
as Poe
MOVIE★ 10.0
One of Our Own
1975
as LeRoy Atkins
MOVIE★ 2.0
Mitzi & 100 Guys
1975
as Self
TV★ 6.5
Baretta
1975
TV★ 7.6
The Rockford Files
1974
as Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
TV★ 6.3
Movin' On
1974
TV★ 6.8
Paper Moon
1974
TV★ 7.2
Petrocelli
1974
as Clate Dobie
MOVIE★ 5.1
Sssssss
1973
as Dr. Carl Stoner
MOVIE
The Boy and the Bronc Buster
1973
as Buckshot
TV★ 7.8
Hawkins
1973
as R.J. Hawkins
TV★ 6.9
The Rookies
1972
MOVIE★ 5.5
Pocket Money
1972
as Bill Garrett
MOVIE
The Flim Flam Man
1972
as Lovick
MOVIE★ 6.2
Hannie Caulder
1971
as Rufus Clemens
TV★ 6.3
Nichols
1971
as Zachariah
MOVIE★ 6.7
Fools' Parade
1971
as Lee Cottrill
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Brotherhood of Satan
1971
as Doc Duncan
MOVIE★ 7.1
Red Sky at Morning
1971
as John Cloyd
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
as Bowen
TV★ 6.2
Love, American Style
1969
MOVIE★ 7.6
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
as Percy Garris
TV★ 6.6
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Terry Riggs
MOVIE★ 7.6
The Wild Bunch
1969
as Coffer
MOVIE★ 7.3
True Grit
1969
as Colonel G. Stonehill
TV★ 6.2
The Doris Day Show
1968
as Tyrone Lovey
TV★ 7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
as Nanyface
TV★ 7.2
It Takes a Thief
1968
as Willard Knox
MOVIE
The Mountains of the Moon
1967
as O'Keefe
MOVIE★ 7.7
Cool Hand Luke
1967
as Captain
TV★ 6.5
The Danny Thomas Hour
1967
as Paul Rooney
TV★ 6.3
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
TV★ 5.2
He & She
1967
as The Rev. Mr. Anderson
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Flim-Flam Man
1967
as Lovick
TV★ 6.9
The Invaders
1967
as Charlie Coogan
TV★ 6.9
Tarzan
1966
MOVIE★ 6.7
Nevada Smith
1966
as Strother (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.4
An Eye for an Eye
1966
as Trumbull
MOVIE★ 6.7
Harper
1966
as Claude
TV★ 7.2
Lost in Space
1965
as Nerim
TV★ 6.2
The Big Valley
1965
as Dan'l Hawks
TV★ 7.1
Run for Your Life
1965
as Holly Amberton
TV★ 5.8
The Legend of Jesse James
1965
as Meeker
MOVIE★ 7.1
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965
as Ned Ross
MOVIE★ 7.0
Shenandoah
1965
as Train Engineer
MOVIE★ 6.1
Brainstorm
1965
as Mr. Clyde
TV★ 7.5
Profiles in Courage
1964
as Senator James Wadsworth
MOVIE★ 5.9
Invitation to a Gunfighter
1964
as Fiddler
TV★ 7.4
Gilligan's Island
1964
TV★ 7.0
Daniel Boone
1964
as Solomon Tarbot
MOVIE★ 6.6
McLintock!
1963
as Agard
TV★ 7.3
The Fugitive
1963
as Deputy Shirky Saulter
TV★ 7.0
The Lieutenant
1963
as Taxi Driver
MOVIE★ 6.1
Showdown
1963
as Charlie Reeder
TV★ 6.5
The Dakotas
1963
TV★ 6.8
Stoney Burke
1962
TV★ 7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TV★ 6.5
The Virginian
1962
as Finley
MOVIE★ 7.8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Floyd
TV★ 7.7
The New Breed
1961
as Benny Kohler
TV★ 7.6
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961
as Harper Worthington Yates
TV★ 5.9
Ben Casey
1961
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Deadly Companions
1961
as Parson
MOVIE★ 5.4
Sanctuary
1961
as Dog Boy
TV★ 6.3
Pete and Gladys
1960
TV★ 5.1
The Rebel
1959
as Jess
TV★ 6.5
Hotel de Paree
1959
TV★ 8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Mothershed
TV★ 7.5
Bonanza
1959
as Lonnie Stern
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Horse Soldiers
1959
as Virgil
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Wild and the Innocent
1959
as Ben Stocker
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Shaggy Dog
1959
as Thurm
TV★ 6.2
Black Saddle
1959
as Pit Thatcher
TV★ 7.2
Rawhide
1959
as Bates
TV★ 7.2
77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Charles Sloane
TV★ 5.8
Lawman
1958
TV★ 6.0
The Texan
1958
as Polk Blackston
MOVIE★ 8.0
Bitter Heritage
1958
as Earle Eheeler
TV★ 5.3
Jefferson Drum
1958
as Pete Henke
MOVIE★ 6.5
Cowboy
1958
as Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
TV★ 6.9
Trackdown
1957
as Benny French
TV★ 7.7
Perry Mason
1957
as Pete Gibson
MOVIE★ 5.9
Black Patch
1957
as Petey
TV★ 7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
MOVIE★ 6.7
Copper Sky
1957
as Pokey
TV★ 8.0
Panic!
1957
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Black Whip
1956
as Thorny
TV★ 6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Joby
TV★ 6.5
Broken Arrow
1956
as Renton
MOVIE★ 6.8
Attack
1956
as Ingersol
TV★ 5.3
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
MOVIE★ 4.5
Johnny Concho
1956
as Townsman (uncredited)
TV★ 6.5
Telephone Time
1956
MOVIE★ 5.8
World Without End
1956
as Nihka (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.1
Target Zero
1955
as Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
TV★ 5.3
Matinee Theater
1955
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Big Knife
1955
as Stillman
TV★ 6.8
Crossroads
1955
as Landry Kersh
TV★ 5.2
Navy Log
1955
TV★ 6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
as Mr. Stooler
MOVIE★ 7.2
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
as Harvey Wallace
MOVIE★ 6.2
Strategic Air Command
1955
as Airman
TV★ 5.8
The Millionaire
1955
as Pete Hill
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Silver Chalice
1954
as Father (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.1
Drum Beat
1954
as Scotty
TV★ 7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Buckshot
MOVIE★ 7.1
A Star Is Born
1954
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
TV★ 7.5
Studio 57
1954
as Pete Dutton
TV★ 6.3
Lassie
1954
TV★ 8.0
The Lone Wolf
1954
as Nick Davis
MOVIE★ 5.3
World for Ransom
1954
TV★ 8.5
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953
as Waiter
MOVIE★ 4.8
South Sea Woman
1953
as Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Magnetic Monster
1953
as Co-Pilot
TV★ 6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
as Gunnery Officer Daly
MOVIE★ 5.9
Androcles and the Lion
1952
as Soldier (uncredited)
TV★ 4.6
Cavalcade of America
1952
as Wilkins
TV★ 6.8
Four Star Playhouse
1952
as Tom Blair
MOVIE★ 7.0
Storm Over Tibet
1952
as Co-pilot
TV★ 8.0
Chevron Theatre
1952
TV★ 5.3
Dangerous Assignment
1952
TV★ 8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Old Hollander
TV★ 6.5
Dragnet
1951
TV★ 7.9
I Love Lucy
1951
as Man in Coffee Shop
TV★ 7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Bellhop
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Red Badge of Courage
1951
as Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.8
Rhubarb
1951
as Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
as Springboard Diver (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 7.5
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
as William Doldy (uncredited)