Strother Martin
ActingBiography
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."
Movies
(73 total)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as Percy Garris
Cool Hand Luke
as Captain
The Wild Bunch
as Coffer
True Grit
as Colonel G. Stonehill
Up in Smoke
as Mr. Stoner
The Asphalt Jungle
as William Doldy (uncredited)
Slap Shot
as Joe McGrath
Kiss Me Deadly
as Harvey Wallace
A Star Is Born
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
The Sons of Katie Elder
as Ned Ross
The Horse Soldiers
as Virgil
McLintock!
as Agard
Hard Times
as Poe
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Bowen
Rooster Cogburn
as Shanghai McCoy
The Champ
as Riley
Nevada Smith
as Strother (uncredited)
Harper
as Claude
The Villain
as Parody Jones
TV Shows
(98 total)
The Twilight Zone
as Mothershed
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
Bonanza
as Lonnie Stern
Bonanza
as Joad Bruder
Bonanza
as Cole Younger
Bonanza
as Little Meredith Smith
Bonanza
as Yuri
I Love Lucy
as Man in Coffee Shop
Perry Mason
as Pete Gibson
Perry Mason
as Joe Mead
Perry Mason
as Gerald Sommers
Perry Mason
as Roy Hutchinson
Lost in Space
as Nerim
The Rockford Files
as Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
Gunsmoke
as Mr. Stooler
Gunsmoke
as Cooter
Gunsmoke
as Ed Davey
Gunsmoke
as Dooley
Gunsmoke
as Dillard