Strother Martin
Highest Rated: 100% Shenandoah (1965)
Lowest Rated: 0% The Villain (1979)
Birthday: Mar 26, 1919
Birthplace: Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Hollywood swimming instructor turned character player; the man who said "What we have here is a failure to communicate" to Paul Newman, aka "Cool Hand Luke" (1967).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotwire | The Weasel (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | The Secret of Nikola Tesla | George Westinghouse (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 36% | 82% | The Champ | Riley (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 0% | 38% | The Villain | Parody Jones (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Love and Bullets | Louis Monk (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Better Late Than Never | J.D. Ashcroft (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 29% | 23% | Nightwing | Selwyn (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fast Line Fever | Pinky Pincus (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 60% | 50% | The End | Dr. Waldo Kling (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Steel Cowboy | Pinky Pincus (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 85% | 89% | Slap Shot | McGrath (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday | Billy (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 44% | 70% | Rooster Cogburn | McCoy (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 92% | 81% | Hard Times | Poe (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One of Our Own | LeRoy Atkins (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Candidate for Murder | Unknown (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder in the Slave Trade | Unknown (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder on the 13th Floor | Unknown (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | Death and the Maiden | R.J. Hawkins (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 30% | 25% | Sssssss | Dr. Carl Stoner (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder in Movieland | R.J. Hawkins (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Boy and the Bronc Buster | Buckshot (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blood Feud | R.J. Hawkins (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 57% | 30% | Pocket Money | Bill Garrett (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Hannie Caulder | Rufus Clemons (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Fool's Parade | Lee Cottrill (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 0% | 33% | The Brotherhood of Satan | Doc Duncan (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red Sky at Morning | John Cloyd (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 93% | 82% | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Bowen (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 90% | 91% | The Wild Bunch | Coffer (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 90% | 92% | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Percy Garris (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 89% | 84% | True Grit | Col. G. Stonehill (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 75% | 65% | The Flim Flam Man | Lovick (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mountain of the Blue Moons | O'Keefe (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 100% | 95% | Cool Hand Luke | Captain (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 100% | 74% | Harper | Claude (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Eye for an Eye | Trumbull (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 100% | 79% | Shenandoah | Train Engineer (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 100% | 81% | The Sons of Katie Elder | Jeb Ross (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 39% | Invitation to a Gunfighter | Fiddler (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 67% | 85% | McLintock! | Agard (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 83% | 32% | The Deadly Companions | Parson (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 94% | 92% | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Floyd (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sanctuary | Dog Boy (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 68% | 48% | The Shaggy Dog | Thurm (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Copper Sky | Pokey (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Black Whip | Thorny (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 100% | 77% | Attack! | Sgt. Ingersol (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 88% | 58% | The Big Knife | Stillman (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 98% | 84% | Kiss Me Deadly | Harvey Wallace (Character) | $882 | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | The Magnetic Monster | Co-Pilot (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Rhubarb | Michael "Shorty" McGirk (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1951 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Thomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers (Guest Star) | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petrocelli | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Billy (Guest Star) | 1974 1964 1961-1962 1956-1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paper Moon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rookies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 1969-1970 1964-1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The New Adventures of Charlie Chan | Unknown (Guest Star) | |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daniel Boone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doris Day Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968-1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Guns of Will Sonnett | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967-1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gentle Ben | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tarzan | O'Keefe (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Iron Horse | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966-1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Valley Days | Charlie Neal (Character) | 1966-1967 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966-1967 |
| 90% | 73% | Gilligan's Island | George Barkley (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Lost in Space | Nerim (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Man Called Shenandoah | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Joe Mead (Guest Star) | 1965 1961-1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Harper Worthington Yates (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Deputy Shirky Saulter (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lieutenant | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dakotas | Pvt. Antrim Copang (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Charles Sloane (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Calvin 'Rabbits' Ross (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1959 1957 |
| 82% | 94% | The Twilight Zone | Mothershed (Character) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marshal Dillon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rebel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trackdown | Benny French (Guest Star) | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jeff's Collie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1956-1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Lem Boots (Guest Star) | 1956-1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 98% | I Love Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stage 7 | Lt. Bob Handley (Character) | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Behind the Badge | Brother Daniel (Character) | 1955 |
QUOTES FROM Strother Martin CHARACTERS
Captain says: What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Denis Le Mieux says: Joe, who own the Chiefs?
Joe McGrath says: Owns! Owns!
Captain says: What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
Percy Garris says: I'm not crazy; I'm just colorful.
Percy Garris says: I'm not crazy, I'm just colorful.