Strother Martin

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."

Cast

Cool Hand Luke

Captain

The Wild Bunch

Coffer

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Percy Garris

Mitzi & 100 Guys

Self

Nevada Smith

Strother (uncredited)

Hard Times

Poe

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Floyd

Slap Shot

Joe McGrath

Up in Smoke

Mr. Stoner

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Bowen

Hannie Caulder

Rufus Clemens

Attack

Ingersol

Brainstorm

Mr. Clyde

The End

Dr. Waldo Kling

The Brotherhood of Satan

Doc Duncan

McLintock!

Agard

Love and Bullets

Louis Monk

The Boy and the Bronc Buster

Buckshot

The Sons of Katie Elder

Ned Ross

Pocket Money

Bill Garrett

The Wild and the Innocent

Ben Stocker

True Grit

Colonel G. Stonehill

The Deadly Companions

Parson

Nightwing

Selwyn

The Horse Soldiers

Virgil

Kiss Me Deadly

Harvey Wallace

Sssssss

Dr. Carl Stoner

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

George Westinghouse

The Mountains of the Moon

O'Keefe

The Silver Chalice

Father (uncredited)

South Sea Woman

Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)

The Villain

Parody Jones

Hotwire

The Weasel

Target Zero

Pvt. Dan O'Hirons

Copper Sky

Pokey

Sanctuary

Dog Boy

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

Billy

Rooster Cogburn

Shanghai McCoy

The Asphalt Jungle

William Doldy (uncredited)

Androcles and the Lion

Soldier (uncredited)

Invitation to a Gunfighter

Fiddler

Fools' Parade

Lee Cottrill

Steel Cowboy

Pinky Pincus

Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy

Turtle Ranch Boss

The Shaggy Dog

Thurm

A Star Is Born

Delivery Boy (uncredited)

The Flim-Flam Man

Lovick

World Without End

Nihka (uncredited)

Black Patch

Petey

Cowboy

Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake

The Champ

Riley

Red Sky at Morning

John Cloyd

An Eye for an Eye

Trumbull

The Red Badge of Courage

Corporal (voice) (uncredited)

Harper

Claude

The Damned Don't Cry

Springboard Diver (uncredited)

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

Old Hollander

The Black Whip

Thorny

The Magnetic Monster

Co-Pilot

Bitter Heritage

Earle Eheeler

Showdown

Charlie Reeder

Shenandoah

Train Engineer

Drum Beat

Scotty

Storm Over Tibet

Co-pilot

The Big Knife

Stillman

Better Late Than Never

J.D. Ashcroft

Strategic Air Command

Airman

Rhubarb

Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)

Johnny Concho

Townsman (uncredited)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Self (archive footage)

World for Ransom

Unknown

One of Our Own

LeRoy Atkins