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Martin was married to Helen Meisels-Martin from 1967 until his death; they had no children. In the last few years of his life, Martin was under a doctor's care for diabetes and cardiac problems.
Strother Martin married Helen Beatrice Meisels on December 18, 1966. They were married for 14 years until Martin’s death in 1980. The couple did not have any children.
When Helen Beatrice Meisels was born on 1 December 1909, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, her father, Henry Meisels, was 34 and her mother, Adela Rubinstein, was 35. She married Strother Douglas Martin Jr on 18 December 1966, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Strother Douglas Martin Jr
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.
- March 26, 1919
- August 1, 1980
Mar 26, 2016 · 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.
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.
In the last year of his life, Martin had been under doctor's care for cardiac problems, and he died of a heart attack on August 1, 1980 at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 61. His widow, Helen Meisels-Martin was ten years his senior.
