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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. His family moved soon after his birth to San Antonio, Texas, but quickly returned to Indiana. Strother Jr. grew up in ...
Strother Martin. Highest Rated: 100% Shenandoah (1965) Lowest Rated: Not Available. Birthday: Mar 26, 1919. Birthplace: Kokomo, Indiana, USA. Hollywood swimming instructor turned character player ...
Sep 12, 2009 · A year later, Strother Martin appeared at a Filmex program, “Characters,” devoted to the work of people like him; the entirety of his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid performance was screened. One hoped that Martin and those other colleagues present—Richard Loo was a few seats away—would be called up to take their bows.
Biography by AllMovie [+] A graduate of the University of Michigan, Strother Martin was the National Junior Springboard Diving Champion when he came to Hollywood as a swimming coach in the late 1940s. He stuck around Lala-land to play a few movie bits and extra roles before finally receiving a role of substance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 2046. Source citation. Actor. He is best remembered for his role as the 'Prison Warden' in the Paul Newman-led motion picture, Cool Hand Luke (1967), in which he utters the iconic line What we got here is a failure to communicate. Born in Kokomo, Indiana, while young his family moved to San Antonio, Texas, but soon ...
Wild Bunch, The (1969) -- (Movie Clip) You're My Judas Goat After the disastrous failed bank-heist ambush, bounty broker Harrigan (Albert Dekker), working for the railroad, chews out the goofy crew (Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones as Coffer and C.T.) and threatens to send their angered leader Thornton (Robert Ryan), the former partner of the hunted Pike, back to prison, in Sam Peckinpah’s The ...
A Star Is Born. The Wild Bunch: The Original Director's Cut. Drum Beat. The Wild and the Innocent. The Flim-Flam Man. The Black Whip. The Ballad of Cable Hogue. The People Against O'Hara.
