Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1919-03-26
Deathday
1980-08-01
Place of Birth
Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Strother Martin
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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Strother Martin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as Percy Garris
Cool Hand Luke
as Captain
The Wild Bunch
as Coffer
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Floyd
The Twilight Zone
as Mothershed
True Grit
as Colonel G. Stonehill
Up in Smoke
as Mr. Stoner
The Asphalt Jungle
as William Doldy (uncredited)
Bonanza
as Lonnie Stern
Bonanza
as Joad Bruder