The Virginian
1962
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Golden Globes, USA. 1974 Nominee Golden Globe. Best Supporting Actor - Television. Hawkins.
At 17 he won the National Junior Springboard Diving Championship. He served as a swimming instructor in the United States Navy during World War II and was a member of the diving team at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Strother Martin. Actor: Cool Hand Luke. American character actor who achieved considerable fame in the last decade of his life. A native of Kokomo, Indiana, Strother Martin Jr. was the youngest of three children of Strother Douglas Martin, a machinist, and Ethel Dunlap Martin.
He made his television debut in 1951, in an episode of ‘Stars Over Hollywood’. Over the course of his three-decade-long career, Martin accumulated over 170 film and TV credits. In 1974, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in CBS’ crime drama ‘Hawkins’.
Strother Martin. Actor: Cool Hand Luke. American character actor who achieved considerable fame in the last decade of his life. A native of Kokomo, Indiana, Strother Martin Jr. was the youngest of three children of Strother Douglas Martin, a machinist, and Ethel Dunlap Martin.
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."
Award: 1974: Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominated
