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Strother Martin
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American actor (1919-1980)
Film & TV
Kokomo, Indiana, USA
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."
Known for
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self (archive footage)2004
- The Secret of Nikola Tesla — George Westinghouse1980
- Hotwire — The Weasel1980
- Love and Bullets — Louis Monk1979
- Nightwing — Selwyn1979
- The Villain — Parody Jones1979
- The Champ — Riley1979
- Better Late Than Never — J.D. Ashcroft1979
- Up in Smoke — Mr. Stoner1978
- The End — Dr. Waldo Kling1978
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Martin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kokomo
- Place of death
- Thousand Oaks
- Occupation
- television actor
- Educated at
- University of Michigan
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- Western
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- United States Navy
- Image
- Strother Martin.jpg
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- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- date of birth
- 1919-03-26
- date of death
- 1980-08-01
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- name in native language
- Strother Martin
- Commons category
- Strother Martin
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