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."
Filmography
Hotwire1980 · Frank Q. Dobbs- The Villain1979 · Hal Needham
- The Champ1979 · Franco Zeffirelli
Up in Smoke1978 · Lou Adler
Slap Shot1977 · George Roy Hill
Hard Times1975 · Walter Hill
Rooster Cogburn1975 · Stuart Millar
Sssssss1973 · Bernard L. Kowalski
Pocket Money1972 · Stuart Rosenberg
Fools' Parade1971 · Andrew V. McLaglen
Hannie Caulder1971 · Burt Kennedy
The Ballad of Cable Hogue1970 · Sam Peckinpah
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969 · George Roy Hill
True Grit1969 · Henry Hathaway
The Wild Bunch1969 · Sam Peckinpah
Cool Hand Luke1967 · Stuart Rosenberg
Harper1966 · Jack Smight
The Sons of Katie Elder1965 · Henry Hathaway- Invitation to a Gunfighter1964 · Richard Wilson
McLintock!1963 · Andrew V. McLaglen
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962 · John Ford
The Horse Soldiers1959 · John Ford- Cowboy1958 · Delmer Daves
Kiss Me Deadly1955 · Robert Aldrich