Strother Martin

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

Filmography

Cool Hand Luke
Captain
The Wild Bunch
Coffer
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Percy Garris
Mitzi & 100 Guys
Self
Nevada Smith
Strother (uncredited)
Hard Times
Poe
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Floyd
Slap Shot
Joe McGrath
Up in Smoke
Mr. Stoner
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Bowen
Hannie Caulder
Rufus Clemens
Attack
Ingersol
Brainstorm
Mr. Clyde
The End
Dr. Waldo Kling
The Brotherhood of Satan
Doc Duncan
McLintock!
Agard
Love and Bullets
Louis Monk
The Boy and the Bronc Buster
Buckshot
The Sons of Katie Elder
Ned Ross
Pocket Money
Bill Garrett
The Wild and the Innocent
Ben Stocker
True Grit
Colonel G. Stonehill
The Deadly Companions
Parson
Nightwing
Selwyn
The Horse Soldiers
Virgil
Kiss Me Deadly
Harvey Wallace
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
George Westinghouse
Sssssss
Dr. Carl Stoner
The Mountains of the Moon
O'Keefe
The Silver Chalice
Father (uncredited)
South Sea Woman
Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
The Villain
Parody Jones
Hotwire
The Weasel
Target Zero
Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
Copper Sky
Pokey
Sanctuary
Dog Boy
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
Billy
Rooster Cogburn
Shanghai McCoy
The Asphalt Jungle
William Doldy (uncredited)
Androcles and the Lion
Soldier (uncredited)
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Fiddler
Fools' Parade
Lee Cottrill
Steel Cowboy
Pinky Pincus
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
Turtle Ranch Boss
The Shaggy Dog
Thurm
A Star Is Born
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
The Flim-Flam Man
Lovick
World Without End
Nihka (uncredited)
Black Patch
Petey
Cowboy
Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
The Champ
Riley
Red Sky at Morning
John Cloyd
An Eye for an Eye
Trumbull
The Red Badge of Courage
Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
Harper
Claude
The Damned Don't Cry
Springboard Diver (uncredited)
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
Old Hollander
The Black Whip
Thorny
The Magnetic Monster
Co-Pilot
Bitter Heritage
Earle Eheeler
Showdown
Charlie Reeder
Shenandoah
Train Engineer
Drum Beat
Scotty
Storm Over Tibet
Co-pilot
The Big Knife
Stillman
Better Late Than Never
J.D. Ashcroft
Strategic Air Command
Airman
Rhubarb
Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
Johnny Concho
Townsman (uncredited)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
World for Ransom
One of Our Own
LeRoy Atkins