Strother Martin

Acting · Born 1919-03-26 in Kokomo, Indiana, USA

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."

Filmography

• Cool Hand Luke as Captain
• The Wild Bunch as Coffer
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Percy Garris
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Floyd
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Bowen
• The Sons of Katie Elder as Ned Ross
• True Grit as Colonel G. Stonehill
• The Horse Soldiers as Virgil
• Kiss Me Deadly as Harvey Wallace
• The Asphalt Jungle as William Doldy (uncredited)

TV

• I Love Lucy as Man in Coffee Shop
• Perry Mason as Pete Gibson
• Perry Mason as Joe Mead
• Perry Mason as Gerald Sommers
• Perry Mason as Roy Hutchinson
• The Rockford Files as Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
• The Twilight Zone as Mothershed
• Movin' On
• The Rookies
• Gilligan's Island