Strother Martin
Date of birth: 1919-03-26
Place of birth: Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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."
Movie Credits
Cool Hand Luke
1967-11-01
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play
The Wild Bunch
1969-06-19
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappea
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969-09-23
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by
Mitzi & 100 Guys
1975-03-24
Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main gue
Nevada Smith
1966-06-10
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by thr
Hard Times
1975-08-13
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-b
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma
Slap Shot
1977-02-25
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs
Up in Smoke
1978-05-16
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970-03-18
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It
Hannie Caulder
1971-11-08
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunte
Attack
1956-09-19
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must esta
Brainstorm
1965-05-05
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
The End
1978-05-10
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waitin
The Brotherhood of Satan
1971-08-06
A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to
McLintock!
1963-11-12
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numer
Love and Bullets
1979-04-05
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goon
The Boy and the Bronc Buster
1973-03-18
An orphan teen (Vincent Van Patten) follows a rider (Earl Holliman) on the rodeo circuit, unaware hi
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965-06-23
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and disc
Pocket Money
1972-02-01
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with
The Wild and the Innocent
1959-05-27
In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into troubl
True Grit
1969-06-11
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging h
The Deadly Companions
1961-06-06
Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral p
Nightwing
1979-06-22
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
The Horse Soldiers
1959-06-11
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center.
Kiss Me Deadly
1955-04-28
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, wh
The Secret of Nikola Tesla
1980-02-19
Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest co
Sssssss
1973-07-06
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his
The Mountains of the Moon
1967-11-24
A religious sect, cheated by an adventurer, wants to occupy an African territory not knowing that it
The Silver Chalice
1954-12-20
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the fa
South Sea Woman
1953-06-27
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scan
The Villain
1979-07-26
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. Bu
Hotwire
1980-09-01
A hard drinking old man and a cocky street-wise drifter are blackmailed into repossessing a Rolls-Ro
Target Zero
1955-11-15
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.
Copper Sky
1957-09-01
Alcoholic former cavalryman Hack Williams is arrested for killing an Indian, something he did not do
Sanctuary
1961-04-18
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976-06-23
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who
Rooster Cogburn
1975-11-01
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and ra
The Asphalt Jungle
1950-05-12
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emme
Androcles and the Lion
1952-12-01
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave
Invitation to a Gunfighter
1964-10-14
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, hi
Fools' Parade
1971-08-18
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a gene
Steel Cowboy
1978-12-06
An independent trucker, trying to keep his marriage alive and his rig out of the hands of bill colle
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
1978-11-22
Steve Martin's first network special for NBC offers part concert footage (shot at the Universal Amph
The Shaggy Dog
1959-03-19
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inoppo
A Star Is Born
1954-10-01
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career
The Flim-Flam Man
1967-08-22
Mordecai Jones, a silver-tongued swindler and self-proclaimed “M.B.S., C.S., D.D.—Master of Back-Sta
World Without End
1956-03-25
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Cen
Black Patch
1957-09-15
A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil
Cowboy
1958-01-23
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by
The Champ
1979-07-07
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drink
Red Sky at Morning
1971-05-12
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloo
An Eye for an Eye
1966-06-01
A former bounty hunter teams up with a younger one, to track down and kill the wanted gang leader wh
The Red Badge of Courage
1951-09-27
Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement
Harper
1966-02-22
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him
The Damned Don't Cry
1950-05-13
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
1978-12-17
Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a
The Black Whip
1956-12-01
A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot to
The Magnetic Monster
1953-02-18
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactiv
Bitter Heritage
1958-08-07
A powerful story of the son of America's most famous outlaw: Jesse James. Jesse, Jr. struggles to re
Showdown
1963-05-03
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gan
Shenandoah
1965-06-03
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of th
Drum Beat
1954-11-10
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and
Storm Over Tibet
1952-07-01
During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains
The Big Knife
1955-10-25
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a
Better Late Than Never
1979-10-17
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement ho
Strategic Air Command
1955-03-25
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his
Rhubarb
1951-08-29
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The
Johnny Concho
1956-07-01
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004-07-25
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist
World for Ransom
1954-01-31
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate
One of Our Own
1975-05-05
Dr Jake Goodwin is the chief neurosurgeon at a busy city hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin b