Acting

Strother Martin

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

Died 1980-08-01

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."

Credits

Newest first

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Hotwire
as The Weasel
1980
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
as George Westinghouse
1980
Better Late Than Never
as J.D. Ashcroft
1979
The Villain
as Parody Jones
1979
The Champ
as Riley
1979
Nightwing
as Selwyn
1979
Love and Bullets
as Louis Monk
1979
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
as Old Hollander
1978
Steel Cowboy
as Pinky Pincus
1978
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
as Turtle Ranch Boss
1978
Vega$
1978
Up in Smoke
as Mr. Stoner
1978
The End
as Dr. Waldo Kling
1978
Slap Shot
as Joe McGrath
1977
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
as Billy
1976
Rooster Cogburn
as Shanghai McCoy
1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
Hard Times
as Poe
1975
One of Our Own
as LeRoy Atkins
1975
Mitzi & 100 Guys
as Self
1975
Baretta
1975
The Rockford Files
as Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
1974
Movin' On
1974
Paper Moon
1974
Petrocelli
as Clate Dobie
1974
Sssssss
as Dr. Carl Stoner
1973
The Boy and the Bronc Buster
as Buckshot
1973
Hawkins
as R.J. Hawkins
1973
The Rookies
1972
Pocket Money
as Bill Garrett
1972
The Flim Flam Man
as Lovick
1972
Hannie Caulder
as Rufus Clemens
1971
Nichols
as Zachariah
1971
Fools' Parade
as Lee Cottrill
1971
The Brotherhood of Satan
as Doc Duncan
1971
Red Sky at Morning
as John Cloyd
1971
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Bowen
1970
Love, American Style
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as Percy Garris
1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Terry Riggs
1969
The Wild Bunch
as Coffer
1969
True Grit
as Colonel G. Stonehill
1969
The Doris Day Show
as Tyrone Lovey
1968
The Name of the Game
as Nanyface
1968
It Takes a Thief
as Willard Knox
1968
The Mountains of the Moon
as O'Keefe
1967
Cool Hand Luke
as Captain
1967
The Danny Thomas Hour
as Paul Rooney
1967
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
He & She
as The Rev. Mr. Anderson
1967
The Flim-Flam Man
as Lovick
1967
The Invaders
as Charlie Coogan
1967
Tarzan
1966
Nevada Smith
as Strother (uncredited)
1966
An Eye for an Eye
as Trumbull
1966
Harper
as Claude
1966
Lost in Space
as Nerim
1965
The Big Valley
as Dan'l Hawks
1965
The Big Valley
as Fludd
1965
Run for Your Life
as Holly Amberton
1965
The Legend of Jesse James
as Meeker
1965
The Sons of Katie Elder
as Ned Ross
1965
Shenandoah
as Train Engineer
1965
Brainstorm
as Mr. Clyde
1965
Profiles in Courage
as Senator James Wadsworth
1964
Invitation to a Gunfighter
as Fiddler
1964
Gilligan's Island
1964
Daniel Boone
as Solomon Tarbot
1964
McLintock!
as Agard
1963
The Fugitive
as Deputy Shirky Saulter
1963
The Lieutenant
as Taxi Driver
1963
Showdown
as Charlie Reeder
1963
The Dakotas
1963
Stoney Burke
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Virginian
as Finley
1962
The Virginian
as Luther Watson
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Floyd
1962
The New Breed
as Benny Kohler
1961