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Strother Martin
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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."
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73 acting credits · Includes cameos and other appearances where listed.
Cool Hand Luke
Captain
True Grit
Colonel G. Stonehill
The Wild Bunch
Coffer
A Star Is Born
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Hard Times
Poe
The Asphalt Jungle
William Doldy (uncredited)
The Sons of Katie Elder
Ned Ross
Sssssss
Dr. Carl Stoner
McLintock!
Agard
Hannie Caulder
Rufus Clemens
Slap Shot
Joe McGrath
Up in Smoke
Mr. Stoner
Harper
Claude
Kiss Me Deadly
Harvey Wallace
The Villain
Parody Jones
Rooster Cogburn
Shanghai McCoy
The Horse Soldiers
Virgil
The Champ
Riley
Nevada Smith
Strother (uncredited)
Drum Beat
Scotty
The Damned Don't Cry
Springboard Diver (uncredited)
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Fiddler
Cowboy
Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
Shenandoah
Train Engineer
The Silver Chalice
Father (uncredited)
The Red Badge of Courage
Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
Fools' Parade
Lee Cottrill
The Deadly Companions
Parson
Pocket Money
Bill Garrett
The Brotherhood of Satan
Doc Duncan
The Shaggy Dog
Thurm
World Without End
Nihka (uncredited)
Love and Bullets
Louis Monk
The Big Knife
Stillman
The Wild and the Innocent
Ben Stocker
Attack
Ingersol
Strategic Air Command
Airman
The Flim-Flam Man
Lovick
Androcles and the Lion
Soldier (uncredited)
Nightwing
Selwyn
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
The End
Dr. Waldo Kling
The Magnetic Monster
Co-Pilot
The Mountains of the Moon
O'Keefe
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