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

• 1980Hotwire — The Weasel
• 1980The Secret of Nikola Tesla — George Westinghouse
• 1979Better Late Than Never — J.D. Ashcroft
• 1979Love and Bullets — Louis Monk
• 1979Nightwing — Selwyn
• 1979The Champ — Riley
• 1979The Villain — Parody Jones
• 1978Steel Cowboy — Pinky Pincus
• 1978Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy — Turtle Ranch Boss
• 1978Stubby Pringle's Christmas — Old Hollander
• 1978The End — Dr. Waldo Kling
• 1978Up in Smoke — Mr. Stoner
• Vega$
• 1977Slap Shot — Joe McGrath
• 1976The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday — Billy
• Baretta
• 1975Hard Times — Poe
• 1975One of Our Own — LeRoy Atkins
• 1975Rooster Cogburn — Shanghai McCoy
• Movin' On
• Paper Moon
• Petrocelli — Clate Dobie
• The Rockford Files — Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
• Hawkins — R.J. Hawkins
• 1973Sssssss — Dr. Carl Stoner
• 1973The Boy and the Bronc Buster — Buckshot
• 1972Pocket Money — Bill Garrett
• 1972The Flim Flam Man — Lovick
• The Rookies
• 1971Fools' Parade — Lee Cottrill
• 1971Hannie Caulder — Rufus Clemens
• Nichols — Zachariah
• 1971Red Sky at Morning — John Cloyd
• 1971The Brotherhood of Satan — Doc Duncan
• 1970The Ballad of Cable Hogue — Bowen
• 1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — Percy Garris
• Love, American Style
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Terry Riggs
• 1969The Wild Bunch — Coffer
• 1969True Grit — Colonel G. Stonehill
• It Takes a Thief — Willard Knox
• The Doris Day Show — Tyrone Lovey
• The Name of the Game — Nanyface
• 1967Cool Hand Luke — Captain
• He & She — The Rev. Mr. Anderson
• The Danny Thomas Hour — Paul Rooney
• 1967The Flim-Flam Man — Lovick
• The Guns of Will Sonnett
• The Invaders — Charlie Coogan
• 1967The Mountains of the Moon — O'Keefe
• 1966An Eye for an Eye — Trumbull
• 1966Harper — Claude
• 1966Nevada Smith — Strother (uncredited)
• Tarzan
• 1965Brainstorm — Mr. Clyde
• Lost in Space — Nerim
• Run for Your Life — Holly Amberton
• 1965Shenandoah — Train Engineer
• The Big Valley — Dan'l Hawks, Fludd
• The Legend of Jesse James — Meeker
• 1965The Sons of Katie Elder — Ned Ross
• Daniel Boone — Solomon Tarbot
• Gilligan's Island
• 1964Invitation to a Gunfighter — Fiddler
• Profiles in Courage — Senator James Wadsworth
• 1963McLintock! — Agard
• 1963Showdown — Charlie Reeder
• The Dakotas
• The Fugitive — Deputy Shirky Saulter
• The Lieutenant — Taxi Driver
• Stoney Burke
• 1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Floyd
• The Virginian — Finley, Luther Watson
• Ben Casey — Frank Geray
• 1961Sanctuary — Dog Boy
• 1961The Deadly Companions — Parson
• The Dick Van Dyke Show — Harper Worthington Yates
• The New Breed — Benny Kohler
• Pete and Gladys
• Black Saddle — Pit Thatcher
• Bonanza — Lonnie Stern, Joad Bruder, Cole Younger, Little Meredith Smith, Yuri
• Hotel de Paree
• Rawhide — Bates
• 1959The Horse Soldiers — Virgil
• The Rebel — Jess
• 1959The Shaggy Dog — Thurm
• The Twilight Zone — Mothershed
• 1959The Wild and the Innocent — Ben Stocker
• 77 Sunset Strip — Charles Sloane
• 1958Bitter Heritage — Earle Eheeler
• 1958Cowboy — Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
• Jefferson Drum — Pete Henke
• Lawman
• The Texan — Polk Blackston
• 1957Black Patch — Petey
• 1957Copper Sky — Pokey
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Carew, Fred Coombs
• Panic!
• Perry Mason — Pete Gibson, Joe Mead, Gerald Sommers, Roy Hutchinson
• Trackdown — Benny French
• 1956Attack — Ingersol
• Broken Arrow — Renton
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Joby
• 1956Johnny Concho — Townsman (uncredited)
• Telephone Time
• The Adventures of Jim Bowie
• 1956The Black Whip — Thorny
• 1956World Without End — Nihka (uncredited)
• Crossroads — Landry Kersh
• Gunsmoke — Mr. Stooler, Cooter, Ed Davey, Dooley, Dillard, Rowley, Gene Bunch, Billy, Timble, Ben Snow
• 1955Kiss Me Deadly — Harvey Wallace
• Matinee Theater
• Navy Log
• 1955Strategic Air Command — Airman
• 1955Target Zero — Pvt. Dan O'Hirons
• 1955The Big Knife — Stillman
• The Millionaire — Pete Hill
• 1954A Star Is Born — Delivery Boy (uncredited)
• 1954Drum Beat — Scotty
• Lassie
• Studio 57 — Pete Dutton
• The Lone Wolf — Nick Davis
• 1954The Silver Chalice — Father (uncredited)
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Buckshot, Thurm
• 1954World for Ransom
• General Electric Theater — Gunnery Officer Daly, Obie
• 1953South Sea Woman — Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
• 1953The Magnetic Monster — Co-Pilot
• The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse — Waiter
• 1952Androcles and the Lion — Soldier (uncredited)
• Cavalcade of America — Wilkins
• Chevron Theatre
• Dangerous Assignment
• Four Star Playhouse — Tom Blair
• 1952Storm Over Tibet — Co-pilot
• Dragnet
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Old Hollander
• I Love Lucy — Man in Coffee Shop
• 1951Rhubarb — Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Bellhop, Teeples
• 1951The Red Badge of Courage — Corporal (voice) (uncredited)
• 1950The Asphalt Jungle — William Doldy (uncredited)
• 1950The Damned Don't Cry — Springboard Diver (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self (archive footage)
• 1975Mitzi & 100 Guys — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self