Strother Martin
Birthday: 1919-03-26
Place of Birth: Kokomo, Indiana, USA
Biography: 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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Cool Hand Luke
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...
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The Wild Bunch
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappea...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by...
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Mitzi & 100 Guys
Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main gue...
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Nevada Smith
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by thr...
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Hard Times
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-b...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma...
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Slap Shot
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs...
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Up in Smoke
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and...
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It...
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Hannie Caulder
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunte...
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Attack
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must esta...
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Brainstorm
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her....
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The End
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waitin...
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The Brotherhood of Satan
A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to...
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McLintock!
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numer...
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Love and Bullets
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goon...
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The Boy and the Bronc Buster
An orphan teen (Vincent Van Patten) follows a rider (Earl Holliman) on the rodeo circuit, unaware hi...
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The Sons of Katie Elder
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and disc...
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Pocket Money
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with...
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The Wild and the Innocent
In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into troubl...
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True Grit
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging h...
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The Deadly Companions
Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral p...
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The Horse Soldiers
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center....
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Kiss Me Deadly
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, wh...
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The Secret of Nikola Tesla
Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest co...
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Sssssss
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his...
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The Mountains of the Moon
A religious sect, cheated by an adventurer, wants to occupy an African territory not knowing that it...
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The Silver Chalice
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the fa...
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South Sea Woman
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scan...
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The Villain
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. Bu...
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Hotwire
A hard drinking old man and a cocky street-wise drifter are blackmailed into repossessing a Rolls-Ro...
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Target Zero
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War....
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Copper Sky
Alcoholic former cavalryman Hack Williams is arrested for killing an Indian, something he did not do...
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Sanctuary
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for ...
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The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ...
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Rooster Cogburn
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and ra...
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The Asphalt Jungle
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emme...
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Androcles and the Lion
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave...
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Invitation to a Gunfighter
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, hi...
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Fools' Parade
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a gene...
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Steel Cowboy
An independent trucker, trying to keep his marriage alive and his rig out of the hands of bill colle...
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Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
Steve Martin's first network special for NBC offers part concert footage (shot at the Universal Amph...
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The Shaggy Dog
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inoppo...
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A Star Is Born
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...
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The Flim-Flam Man
Mordecai Jones, a silver-tongued swindler and self-proclaimed “M.B.S., C.S., D.D.—Master of Back-Sta...
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World Without End
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th-cen...
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Black Patch
A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil...
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Cowboy
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by ...
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The Champ
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drink...
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Red Sky at Morning
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloo...
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An Eye for an Eye
A former bounty hunter teams up with a younger one, to track down and kill the wanted gang leader wh...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement...
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Harper
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him...
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The Damned Don't Cry
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....
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Stubby Pringle's Christmas
Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a ...
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The Black Whip
A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot to ...
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The Magnetic Monster
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactiv...
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Bitter Heritage
A powerful story of the son of America's most famous outlaw: Jesse James. Jesse, Jr. struggles to re...
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Showdown
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gan...
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Shenandoah
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of th...
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Drum Beat
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and...
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Storm Over Tibet
During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains...
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The Big Knife
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a...
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Better Late Than Never
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement ho...
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Strategic Air Command
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his ...
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Rhubarb
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The...
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Johnny Concho
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
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World for Ransom
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate ...
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One of Our Own
Dr Jake Goodwin is the chief neurosurgeon at a busy city hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin b...
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