
Strother 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."
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.211 |
Birthday | 1919-03-26 |
Place of Birth | Kokomo, Indiana, USA |
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1967

Cool Hand Luke
7.7/1454
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the...
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Cool Hand Luke

1969

The Wild Bunch
7.6/1217
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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The Wild Bunch

1969

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7.602/2235
As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in ho...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1975

Mitzi & 100 Guys
0/0
Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main guests Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) a...
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Mitzi & 100 Guys

1966

Nevada Smith
6.8/174
Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and...
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Nevada Smith

1975

Hard Times
6.752/204
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans...
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Hard Times

1962

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
7.789/1170
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon...
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1977

Slap Shot
6.83/383
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging playe...
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Slap Shot

1978

Up in Smoke
6.7/575
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit...
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Up in Smoke

1970

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
7/209
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest...
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1971

Hannie Caulder
6.2/115
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped...
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Hannie Caulder

1956

Attack
6.7/126
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic a...
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Attack

1965

Brainstorm
6.2/24
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
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Brainstorm

1978

The End
5.5/61
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his...
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The End

1971

The Brotherhood of Satan
5.8/37
A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to worship Satan.
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The Brotherhood of Satan

1963

McLintock!
6.549/234
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly...
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McLintock!

1979

Love and Bullets
5.9/41
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in...
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Love and Bullets

1973

The Boy and the Bronc Buster: Part 1
0/0
An orphan teen (Vincent Van Patten) follows a rider (Earl Holliman) on the rodeo circuit, unaware his hero is wanted for murder.
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The Boy and the Bronc Buster: Part 1

1965

The Sons of Katie Elder
7/281
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in t...
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The Sons of Katie Elder

1972

Pocket Money
5.3/26
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked cattle dealer.
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Pocket Money

1959

The Wild and the Innocent
6.3/20
Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to tr...
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The Wild and the Innocent

1969

True Grit
7.3/788
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marsha...
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True Grit

1961

The Deadly Companions
5.7/60
Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
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The Deadly Companions

1979

Nightwing
4.8/37
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
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Nightwing

1959

The Horse Soldiers
6.97/250
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes insta...
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The Horse Soldiers

1955

Kiss Me Deadly
7.2/377
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thug...
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Kiss Me Deadly

1980

The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
6.1/25
Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day...
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The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla

1973

Sssssss
5.202/99
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also be...
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Sssssss

1967

The Mountains of the Moon
0/0
A religious sect, cheated by an adventurer, wants to occupy an African territory not knowing that it is inhabited by a bloodthirsty tribe. Luckily Tar...
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The Mountains of the Moon

1954

The Silver Chalice
4.4/34
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels...
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The Silver Chalice

1953

South Sea Woman
5.4/8
Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time...
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South Sea Woman

1979

The Villain
5.7/145
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Simpson wants the money and hires notoriou...
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The Villain

1980

Hotwire
5/1
Car thieves go to work.
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Hotwire

1955

Target Zero
5.3/6
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.
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Target Zero

1957

Copper Sky
6/2
Alcoholic former cavalryman Hack Williams is arrested for killing an Indian, something he did not do. The townspeople, fearful of Apache reprisals, pl...
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Copper Sky

1961

Sanctuary
5.143/7
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple,...
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Sanctuary

1976

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
5/22
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were pr...
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The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

1975

Rooster Cogburn
6.4/203
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the ai...
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Rooster Cogburn

1950

The Asphalt Jungle
7.476/486
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of v...
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The Asphalt Jungle

1952

Androcles and the Lion
5.8/15
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared...
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Androcles and the Lion

1964

Invitation to a Gunfighter
5.9/53
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his pro...
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Invitation to a Gunfighter

1971

Fools' Parade
6.8/24
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his...
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Fools' Parade

1978

Steel Cowboy
0/0
An independent trucker, trying to keep his marriage alive and his rig out of the hands of bill collectors, agrees to haul a cargo of stolen cattle wit...
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Steel Cowboy

1978

Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
7.714/7
Steve Martin's first network special for NBC offers part concert footage (shot at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles) and part sketch comedy.
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Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy

1959

The Shaggy Dog
6.1/91
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an...
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The Shaggy Dog

1954

A Star Is Born
7.1/305
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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A Star Is Born

1967

The Flim-Flam Man
7/21
A veritable master of the trade, con man Mordecai Jones has taken part in his fair share of scams. When he happens upon a young army deserter, Curley,...
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The Flim-Flam Man

1956

World Without End
5.7/49
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first una...
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World Without End

1957

Black Patch
5.5/7
A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil War, takes his job seriously, especially after an...
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Black Patch

1958

Cowboy
6.373/63
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Ree...
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Cowboy

1979

The Champ
7/193
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in h...
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The Champ

1971

Red Sky at Morning
6.7/5
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New Mexic...
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Red Sky at Morning

1966

An Eye for an Eye
7.5/14
A former bounty hunter teams up with a younger one, to track down and kill the wanted gang leader who murdered his wife and little boy.
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An Eye for an Eye

1951

The Red Badge of Courage
6.4/60
Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he lea...
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The Red Badge of Courage

1966

Harper
6.7/172
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved alo...
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Harper

1950

The Damned Don't Cry
7.1/57
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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The Damned Don't Cry

1978

Stubby Pringle's Christmas
0/0
Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a valuable lesson about the spirit of the holiday al...
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Stubby Pringle's Christmas

1956

The Black Whip
0/0
A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot to kidnap the new governor of the state. If all goes...
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The Black Whip

1953

The Magnetic Monster
5.6/35
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made...
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The Magnetic Monster

1958

Bitter Heritage
0/0
A powerful story of the son of America's most famous outlaw: Jesse James. Jesse, Jr. struggles to return to the town which his father lived. His love...
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Bitter Heritage

1963

Showdown
5.9/18
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.
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Showdown

1965

Shenandoah
6.9/145
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his...
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Shenandoah

1954

Drum Beat
6/32
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy...
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Drum Beat

1952

Storm Over Tibet
6/2
During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains.
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Storm Over Tibet

1955

The Big Knife
6/83
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the lo...
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The Big Knife

1979

Better Late Than Never
0/0
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a...
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Better Late Than Never

1955

Strategic Air Command
6.1/37
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his professional baseball career.
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Strategic Air Command

1951

Rhubarb
5.5/7
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...
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Rhubarb

1956

Johnny Concho
3.7/3
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
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Johnny Concho

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.3/6
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

1954

World for Ransom
5/20
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of s...
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World for Ransom

1975

One of Our Own
0/0
Dr Jake Goodwin is the chief neurosurgeon at a busy city hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin becomes involved in a vast array of medical cases....
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