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Strother Douglas Martin Jr. was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. Martin perhaps is best known as the prison "captain" in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, in which he uttered the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate." The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.
Birth Name
Strother Douglas Martin Jr.
Born
Wednesday, 26 March 1919
Died
Friday, 01 August 1980
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2004 |
The Winds of Whoopie | Turtle Ranch Boss | 1983 |
Hotwire | The Weasel | 1980 |
The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla | George Westinghouse | 1980 |
The Villain | Parody Jones | 1979 |
Nightwing | Selwyn | 1979 |
The Champ | Riley | 1979 |
Love and Bullets | Louis Monk | 1979 |
Steel Cowboy | Pinky Pincus | 1978 |
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy | Turtle Ranch Boss | 1978 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2004 |
The Winds of Whoopie | Turtle Ranch Boss | 1983 |
Hotwire | The Weasel | 1980 |
The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla | George Westinghouse | 1980 |
The Villain | Parody Jones | 1979 |
Nightwing | Selwyn | 1979 |
The Champ | Riley | 1979 |
Love and Bullets | Louis Monk | 1979 |
Steel Cowboy | Pinky Pincus | 1978 |
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy | Turtle Ranch Boss | 1978 |
Up in Smoke | Arnold Stoner / Mr. Stoner | 1978 |
The End | Dr. Waldo Kling | 1978 |
Vega$ | Hank Jenner | 1978 |
Slap Shot | Joe McGrath / McGrath | 1977 |
ABC Weekend Specials | Bill Driscoll | 1977 |
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday | Billy | 1976 |
Rooster Cogburn | McCoy / Shanghai McCoy | 1975 |
Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | 1975 |
Hard Times | Poe | 1975 |
Mitzi & 100 Guys | Self | 1975 |
Baretta | Harris Stump / Lyman P. Dokker / Duke / Doc Stockwell | 1975 |
Paper Moon | Harry | 1974 |
Petrocelli | Clate Dobie | 1974 |
Movin' On | Cabe Miller | 1974 |
The Rockford Files | Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers | 1974 |
Sssssss | Dr. Carl Stoner | 1973 |
Hawkins | R.J. Hawkins | 1973 |
The Rookies | Teacher | 1972 |
Pocket Money | Bill Garrett | 1972 |
Hannie Caulder | Rufus Clemens | 1971 |
Nichols | Zachariah | 1971 |
Fools' Parade | Lee Cottrill | 1971 |
The Brotherhood of Satan | Doc Duncan | 1971 |
Red Sky at Morning | John Cloyd | 1971 |
The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Bowen | 1970 |
Love, American Style | Dennis Wright (segment "Love and the Old Boyfriend") | 1969 |
True Grit | Col. G. Stonehill / Colonel G. Stonehill | 1969 |
The Wild Bunch | Coffer | 1969 |
Marcus Welby, M.D. | Terry Riggs | 1969 |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Percy Garris | 1969 |
The Doris Day Show | Tyrone Lovey | 1968 |
The Name of the Game | Nanyface | 1968 |
It Takes a Thief | Willard Knox | 1968 |
The Danny Thomas Hour | Paul Rooney | 1967 |
Gentle Ben | Reed Olmstock | 1967 |
The Guns of Will Sonnett | Harvey Bains / Joby | 1967 |
He & She | The Rev. Mr. Anderson | 1967 |
The Flim-Flam Man | Lovick | 1967 |
Cool Hand Luke | Captain | 1967 |
The Invaders | Charlie Coogan | 1967 |
The Road West | Grady Couts | 1966 |
Iron Horse | Digby Applegate / Johnny Burke | 1966 |
Tarzan | O'Keefe / Captain Boggs | 1966 |
The Rounders | Cousin Fletch | 1966 |
An Eye for an Eye | Trumbull | 1966 |
Nevada Smith | Strother | 1966 |
Harper | Claude | 1966 |
The Big Valley | Fludd / Dan'l Hawks | 1965 |
The Legend of Jesse James | Meeker | 1965 |
A Man Called Shenandoah | Cowboy | 1965 |
Run for Your Life | Holly Amberton | 1965 |
Lost in Space | Nerim | 1965 |
The Sons of Katie Elder | Jeb Ross / Ned Ross | 1965 |
Shenandoah | Train Engineer | 1965 |
Brainstorm | Mr. Clyde | 1965 |
Profiles in Courage | Senator James Wadsworth | 1964 |
Invitation to a Gunfighter | Fiddler | 1964 |
Daniel Boone | Solomon Tarbot | 1964 |
Kentucky Jones | Boney Benton | 1964 |
McLintock! | Agard | 1963 |
Gilligan's Island | George Barkley | 1963 |
Glynis | Dance Hall Customer | 1963 |
The Fugitive | Deputy Shirky Saulter | 1963 |
The Lieutenant | Taxi Driver | 1963 |
Showdown | Charlie Reeder | 1963 |
Stoney Burke | Buck Buckley | 1962 |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself | 1962 |
The Virginian | Luther Watson / Finley | 1962 |
The Dakotas | Pvt. Antrim Copang | 1962 |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Floyd | 1962 |
The New Breed | Benny Kohler | 1961 |
The Dick Van Dyke Show | Harper Worthington Yates | 1961 |
Ben Casey | Frank Geray / Calvin 'Rabbits' Ross / Adam Raemecker | 1961 |
The Deadly Companions | Parson | 1961 |
Sanctuary | Dog Boy | 1961 |
The Americans | Wadd | 1961 |
Outlaws | Garvey | 1960 |
Pete and Gladys | Harold Horton | 1960 |
The Rebel | Jess | 1959 |
Hotel de Paree | Aaron Donager | 1959 |
The Twilight Zone | Mothershed | 1959 |
Bonanza | Yuri / Lonnie Stern / Little Meredith Smith / Joad Bruder / Cole Younger | 1959 |
The Horse Soldiers | Virgil | 1959 |
The Wild and the Innocent | Ben Stocker | 1959 |
The Shaggy Dog | Thurm | 1959 |
Black Saddle | Pit Thatcher | 1959 |
Rawhide | Bates / Meeker | 1959 |
77 Sunset Strip | Charles Sloane | 1958 |
Lawman | Jack Foley | 1958 |
The Texan | Polk Blackston | 1958 |
Frontier Justice | Toby | 1958 |
Jefferson Drum | Pete Henke | 1958 |
Cowboy | Cowhand Bitten by Snake / Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake | 1958 |
Trackdown | Benny French | 1957 |
The Walter Winchell File | Little Julie | 1957 |
The Gray Ghost | Michael | 1957 |
Perry Mason | Roy Hutchinson / Pete Gibson / Joe Mead / Gerald Sommers | 1957 |
Boots and Saddles | Slocum | 1957 |
Black Patch | Deputy Petey Walker / Petey | 1957 |
Have Gun - Will Travel | Boise Peabody / Carew / Dooley Delaware / Fred Coombs | 1957 |
Copper Sky | Pokey | 1957 |
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan | Tomar | 1957 |
The Web | Ezra | 1957 |
Panic! | Hank Judson | 1957 |
Whirlybirds | 'The Great Herman' | 1957 |
The Black Whip | Thorny | 1956 |
Zane Grey Theatre | Joby | 1956 |
Playhouse 90 | Earle Wheeler | 1956 |
Attack | Sgt. Ingersol / Ingersol | 1956 |
Broken Arrow | Joe Roman / Renton | 1956 |
The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Leopold Vaupel | 1956 |
Johnny Concho | Townsman | 1956 |
World Without End | Nihka | 1956 |
Target Zero | Pvt. Dan O'Hirons | 1955 |
Matinee Theatre | Phil | 1955 |
The Big Knife | Stillman | 1955 |
Crossroads | Landry Kersh | 1955 |
Crusader | Ray Dutcher | 1955 |
Frontier | Mayes / Lee | 1955 |
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial | Obie | 1955 |
Navy Log | D'Amico | 1955 |
Gunsmoke | Ben Snow / Billy / Cooter / Dillard / Dooley / Ed Davey / Gene Bunch / Mr. Stooler / Rowley / Timble | 1955 |
Kiss Me Deadly | Harvey Wallace | 1955 |
Strategic Air Command | Airman | 1955 |
Stage 7 | Pete / Lt. Bob Handley | 1955 |
The Millionaire | Pete | 1955 |
The Silver Chalice | Father | 1954 |
Drum Beat | Scotty | 1954 |
The Magical World of Disney | Buckshot / Thurm | 1954 |
A Star Is Born | Delivery Boy | 1954 |
Studio 57 | Pete Dutton | 1954 |
Lassie | Lem Boots | 1954 |
Prisoner of War | Man on Crutches | 1954 |
The Lone Wolf | Nick Davis | 1954 |
World for Ransom | Corporal | 1954 |
The Man Behind the Badge | Brother Daniel | 1953 |
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse | Waiter | 1953 |
South Sea Woman | Marine in Audience at Court-martial | 1953 |
The Magnetic Monster | Co-Pilot | 1953 |
General Electric Theater | Gunnery Officer Daly / Obie | 1953 |
Androcles and the Lion | Soldier | 1953 |
I Married Joan | Ticket Agent | 1952 |
Cavalcade of America | Wilkins | 1952 |
Four Star Playhouse | Tom Blair | 1952 |
Storm Over Tibet | Co-pilot | 1952 |
Death Valley Days | Ed Schieffelin / Charlie Neal / Arkie Monson / Alfred Hall | 1952 |
I Love Lucy | Cafe Waiter | 1951 |
Schlitz Playhouse | Bellhop / Mr. Ralph | 1951 |
The Red Badge of Courage | Corporal | 1951 |
Rhubarb | Michael 'Shorty' McGirk | 1951 |
Big Town | Paul Evans / Eddie Benson | 1950 |
The Asphalt Jungle | William Doldy | 1950 |
The Damned Don't Cry | Springboard Diver | 1950 |
Dangerous Assignment | Riri | 1950 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1974 | Golden Globe | Best Supporting Actor - Television | Nominated |