Actor

Strother Martin

1950–present1919–1980WesternDramaComedyCrime

Chronicler of the Frontier

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Known For

73 acting credits

as Percy Garris

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

as Percy Garris

1969

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

as Captain

Cool Hand Luke

as Captain

1967

Cool Hand Luke

Filmography

2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood RenegadeSelf (archive footage)8.0 1980The Secret of Nikola TeslaGeorge Westinghouse6.2 1980HotwireThe Weasel6.0 1979Love and BulletsLouis Monk5.9 1979NightwingSelwyn4.8 1979The VillainParody Jones

About

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."

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