Strother Martin
Acting
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."
Born: March 26, 1919
Place of Birth: Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Known For
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
The Twilight Zone
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
Cool Hand Luke
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as The Weasel
as George Westinghouse
as J.D. Ashcroft
as Parody Jones
as Riley
as Selwyn
as Louis Monk
as Old Hollander
as Pinky Pincus
as Turtle Ranch Boss
as Mr. Stoner
as Dr. Waldo Kling
as Joe McGrath
as Shanghai McCoy
as Self - Host
as Poe
as LeRoy Atkins
as Self
as Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
as Clate Dobie
as Dr. Carl Stoner
as Buckshot
as R.J. Hawkins
as Bill Garrett
as Rufus Clemens
as Zachariah
as Lee Cottrill
as Doc Duncan
as John Cloyd
as Bowen
as Percy Garris
as Terry Riggs
as Coffer
as Colonel G. Stonehill
as Tyrone Lovey
as Nanyface
as Willard Knox
as O'Keefe
as Captain
as Paul Rooney
as The Rev. Mr. Anderson
as Lovick
as Charlie Coogan
as Strother (uncredited)
as Trumbull
as Claude
as Nerim
as Dan'l Hawks
as Fludd
as Holly Amberton
as Meeker
as Ned Ross
as Train Engineer
as Mr. Clyde
as Fiddler
as Solomon Tarbot
as Agard
as Deputy Shirky Saulter
as Taxi Driver
as Charlie Reeder
as Finley
as Luther Watson
as Floyd
as Harper Worthington Yates
as Benny Kohler
as Frank Geray
as Parson
as Dog Boy
as Jess
as Mothershed
as Lonnie Stern
as Joad Bruder
as Cole Younger
as Little Meredith Smith
as Yuri
as Virgil
as Ben Stocker
as Thurm
as Pit Thatcher
as Bates
as Charles Sloane
as Polk Blackston
as Earle Eheeler
as Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
as Benny French
as Pete Gibson
as Joe Mead
as Gerald Sommers
as Roy Hutchinson
as Petey
as Carew
as Fred Coombs
as Pokey
as Thorny
as Renton
as Ingersol
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Nihka (uncredited)
as Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
as Stillman
as Landry Kersh
as Mr. Stooler
as Cooter
as Ed Davey
as Dooley
as Dillard
as Rowley
as Gene Bunch
as Billy
as Timble
as Ben Snow
as Harvey Wallace
as Airman
as Pete Hill
as Father (uncredited)
as Scotty
as Buckshot
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
as Pete Dutton
as Nick Davis
as Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
as Co-Pilot
as Gunnery Officer Daly
as Obie
as Soldier (uncredited)
as Wilkins
as Co-pilot
as Old Hollander
as Man in Coffee Shop
as Bellhop
as Teeples
as Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
as Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
as Springboard Diver (uncredited)
as William Doldy (uncredited)