Strother Martin

★ Acting #6,718

1919 - 1980 (age 61) • Acting

Born: 3/26/1919 in Kokomo, Indiana, USA

Died: 8/1/1980 (age 61)

Known for: Acting

Strother Martin

★ Acting #6,718

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

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

76%

Percy Garris

1969

The Twilight Zone

85%

Mothershed

1959

Up in Smoke

66%

Mr. Stoner

1978

Saturday Night Live

69%

Self - Host

1975

Bonanza

75%

Joad Bruder / Yuri / Little Meredith Smith / Cole Younger / Lonnie Stern

1959

Slap Shot

68%

Joe McGrath

1977

Gilligan's Island

74%

Unknown

1964

I Love Lucy

79%

Man in Coffee Shop

1951

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

80%

Self (archive footage)

2004

Hotwire

60%

The Weasel

1980

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

63%

George Westinghouse

1980

Better Late Than Never

90%

J.D. Ashcroft

1979

The Villain

57%

Parody Jones

1979

The Champ

70%

Riley

1979

Nightwing

49%

Selwyn

1979

Love and Bullets

58%

Louis Monk

1979

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

70%

Old Hollander

1978

Steel Cowboy

90%

Pinky Pincus

1978

Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy

78%

Turtle Ranch Boss

1978

Vega$

69%

Unknown

1978

Up in Smoke

66%

Mr. Stoner

1978

The End

56%

Dr. Waldo Kling

1978

Slap Shot

68%

Joe McGrath

1977

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

51%

Billy

1976

Rooster Cogburn

64%

Shanghai McCoy

1975

Saturday Night Live

69%

Self - Host

1975

Hard Times

68%

Poe

1975

One of Our Own

100%

LeRoy Atkins

1975

Mitzi & 100 Guys

20%

Self

1975

Baretta

65%

Unknown

1975

The Rockford Files

76%

Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers

1974

Paper Moon

68%

Unknown

1974

Movin' On

63%

Unknown

1974

Petrocelli

72%

Clate Dobie

1974

Sssssss

51%

Dr. Carl Stoner

1973

The Boy and the Bronc Buster

Buckshot

1973