Shenandoah1965
As Train Engineer
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Strother Martin
Born
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."
Filmography (73)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969
As Percy Garris
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Cool Hand Luke1967
As Captain
TMDb 7.7 / 10
The Wild Bunch1969
As Coffer
TMDb 7.6 / 10
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962
As Floyd
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Sssssss1973
As Dr. Carl Stoner
TMDb 5.1 / 10
True Grit1969
As Colonel G. Stonehill
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Up in Smoke1978
As Mr. Stoner
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Harper1966
As Claude
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Hard Times1975
As Poe
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Ballad of Cable Hogue1970
As Bowen
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Champ1979
As Riley
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Slap Shot1977
As Joe McGrath
TMDb 6.8 / 10
McLintock!1963
As Agard
TMDb 6.6 / 10
A Star Is Born1954
As Delivery Boy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Horse Soldiers1959
As Virgil
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Hannie Caulder1971
As Rufus Clemens
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Rooster Cogburn1975
As Shanghai McCoy
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Asphalt Jungle1950
As William Doldy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Kiss Me Deadly1955
As Harvey Wallace
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Villain1979
As Parody Jones
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Pocket Money1972
As Bill Garrett
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Sons of Katie Elder1965
As Ned Ross
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Nevada Smith1966
As Strother (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Nightwing1979
As Selwyn
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Fools' Parade1971
As Lee Cottrill
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Shaggy Dog1959
As Thurm
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Cowboy1958
As Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Red Badge of Courage1951
As Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Strategic Air Command1955
As Airman
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Drum Beat1954
As Scotty
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Love and Bullets1979
As Louis Monk
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Invitation to a Gunfighter1964
As Fiddler
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Deadly Companions1961
As Parson
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Copper Sky1957
As Pokey
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Big Knife1955
As Stillman
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Androcles and the Lion1952
As Soldier (uncredited)
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Attack1956
As Ingersol
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Magnetic Monster1953
As Co-Pilot
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade2004
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The End1978
As Dr. Waldo Kling
TMDb 5.6 / 10
South Sea Woman1953
As Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Hotwire1980
As The Weasel
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Silver Chalice1954
As Father (uncredited)
TMDb 4.4 / 10
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday1976
As Billy
TMDb 5.1 / 10
Mitzi & 100 Guys1975
As Self
TMDb 2.0 / 10
The Flim-Flam Man1967
As Lovick
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Wild and the Innocent1959
As Ben Stocker
TMDb 6.3 / 10
World Without End1956
As Nihka (uncredited)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Mountains of the Moon1967
As O'Keefe
Target Zero1955
As Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Black Whip1956
As Thorny
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Johnny Concho1956
As Townsman (uncredited)
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Rhubarb1951
As Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Showdown1963
As Charlie Reeder
TMDb 6.1 / 10
An Eye for an Eye1966
As Trumbull
TMDb 7.4 / 10
The Brotherhood of Satan1971
As Doc Duncan
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Damned Don't Cry1950
As Springboard Diver (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Better Late Than Never1979
As J.D. Ashcroft
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Flim Flam Man1972
As Lovick
One of Our Own1975
As LeRoy Atkins
TMDb 10.0 / 10
World for Ransom1954
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Sanctuary1961
As Dog Boy
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Secret of Nikola Tesla1980
As George Westinghouse
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Brainstorm1965
As Mr. Clyde
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy1978
As Turtle Ranch Boss
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Steel Cowboy1978
As Pinky Pincus
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Red Sky at Morning1971
As John Cloyd
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Bitter Heritage1958
As Earle Eheeler
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Boy and the Bronc Buster1973
As Buckshot
Black Patch1957
As Petey
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Storm Over Tibet1952
As Co-pilot
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Stubby Pringle's Christmas1978
As Old Hollander
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb