Strother Martin

Strother Martin
Strother Martin

Strother Douglas Martin Jr. was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in Western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. Martin perhaps is best known as the prison captain in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, in which he uttered the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate." The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.

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Male
Date of Birth
March 26th, 1919
Age
106
Birth Place
United States of America, Indiana
Date of Death
August 1st, 1980
Died Aged
61
Star Sign
Aries
Occupation
Actor
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Roles
Captain in Cool Hand Luke
Mr. Stoner in Up in Smoke
McGrath in Slap Shot
Dr. Carl Stoner in Sssssss
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