Strother Martin

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Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American character actor who appeared in western films directed by John Wayne and Paul Newman as well as in western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah.

Martin is perhaps best known for his role as the prisoner "captain" in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, in which he uttered the words, "What we have here is inability to understand." The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute's list of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.

Early life

Martin was born in Kokomo, Indiana, to Ethel (née Dunlap) and Strother Douglas Martin. The Martins lived in San Antonio, Texas, for a short time, but then they returned to Indiana. As an infant, he excelled at swimming and diving. Because of his diving experience, he was dubbed "T-Bone Martin." He won the National Junior Springboard Diving Championship at 17 years old. During World War II, he served as a swimming instructor in the United States Navy and was a member of the University of Michigan's diving staff in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He entered the adult National Springboard Diving Championship in the hopes of gaining a spot on the US Olympic team but came in third in the tournament.

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Acting career

Martin returned to Los Angeles and spent time as a swimming instructor and as a swimming extra in water scenes in films, including the 1950 crime drama The Damned Don't Cry. He appeared in such films and television as the Western anthology series Frontier on NBC and the syndicated American Civil War drama Gray Ghost, and soon became regular characters in films and television through the 1950s. Landry Kersh appeared in the ABC religion anthology series Crossroads in 1955. In "Cooter," a man with learning difficulties that was written by Sam Peckinpah in 1958 for the long-running Western series Gunsmoke, Martin also portrays a man with learning difficulties.

On CBS, Martin appeared in the first Brian Keith series, Crusader, a Cold War drama. In the 1957 episode "High Wire," Dooley Delaware's circus tightrope walker, Will Travel, Dooley Delaware appeared. In a 1958 episode of the syndicated Western series Boots and Saddles, he played a henpecked soldier and appeared in a Trackdown episode "A Stone for Benny French." He was also the lead in the NBC's "Pete Henke" episode earlier this year.

In 1959, Martin played Polk, with Denver Pyle as Houston, in the CBS Western series The Texan's episode "No Place to Stop," starring Rory Calhoun as Bill Longley. Martin was portrayed as Deputy Jess in ABC's "Johnny Yuma" in another 1959 Western film starring Nick Adams. Martin guest-starred in James Whitmore's ABC crime drama The Law and Mr. Jones in 1960.

In 1961, Martin played Pete Gibson in the episode "The Case of the Brazen Bequest" on Perry Mason. In 1962, he appeared as Harold Horton in "The Chocolate Cake Caper" of the CBS sitcom Pete and Gladys, starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams. Stoney Burke, Jack Lord's ABC adventure/drama series, costarring him. In 1963, he appeared as Private Anton Copang in the ABC/Warner Brothers western series "The Dakotas" as Private Anton Copang. In the short-lived ABC comedy Western The Rounders, with Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, and Chill Wills, Martin appeared twice as "Cousin Fletch" twice.

In 1967, Martin appeared in the syndicated television series Death Valley Days' episode "Silver Tombstone" in Arizona. Martin appeared in several of the best-known Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s, including The Horse Soldiers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. McLintock, John Wayne's film, played an Indian agent. In the 1969 film True Grit (1969), a horse trader (1963) and a horse trader.

Martin was almost as well-known a figure as many top-billed celebrities by the late 1960s. He appeared in NBC's The Road West series "A Mighty Hunter Before the Lord" in 1967, the same year as his appearance in Cool Hand Luke. In the "Zacharia" episode of NBC's Nichols in 1972, he appeared as James Garner's uncle. He had a pronounced physical and vocal similarity to playwright Tennessee Williams and occasionally parodied him, especially in the Dick Van Dyke Show's "Baby Fat" segment.

The performance The Time of Your Life was revived at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles on March 17, 1972, with Martin, Henry Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Lewis J. Stadlen, Richard X. Slattery, Richard X. Slattery, Richard X. Slattery, Richard X. Slattery, and Pepper Martin as the cast, with Edwin Sherin directing.

Martin appeared in all three of Sam Peckinpah's classic Westerns (1969): Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (as Coffer, a bloodthirsty bounty hunter), George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (as Percy Garris, the Bolivian mine boss who recruits the two main characters), and Henry Hathaway's True Grit (as Colonel Stonehill, ah He used to perform alongside L.Q. Jones, who was in real life, was one of his closest friends.

Despite the fact that he often appeared in supporting roles, he appeared in Hannie Caulder (1971), Pocket Money (1972) with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin, and in the horror film SSSSS (1973). Martin appeared in another George Roy Hill film, Slap Shot (1977), later with Paul Newman as the cheap general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey team. With John Wayne and Paul Newman, he appeared six times each. Martin discussed his professional relationship with both Wayne and Newman in an interview that was originally published in Filmtone News in 1981.

Martin Stoner, the father of Tommy Chong's character Anthony, can also be seen in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke (1978) as Arnold Stoner.

Martin made several guest appearances on Gunsmoke, including the two-part series "Island in the Desert," in which he portrayed a wild desert hermit named Ben Snow. Marv Rowley appeared on "Tall Trapper," a 1961 Gunsmoke film starring an enraged man who murders his wife out of envy and then tries to pin the murder on a quiet, courteous trapper who fell for his wife.

In addition, he appeared on Perry Mason from 1957 to 1966, including a horseman in "The Case of the Brazen Bequest" and "The Case of the Drowsy Mosemo." In 1963, he appeared in Glynis Johns' short-lived comedy series Glynis in "Ten Cents a Dance" in Glynis Johns' short-lived comedy series Glynis. Martin appeared in the episode "Most Precious Gold" of the NBC comedy/drama series Kentucky Jones in 1965, starring Dennis Weaver. In 1965, he appeared as Meeker in the ABC Western The Legend of Jesse James. Nerim, a gritty mining engineer, appeared in the Lost In Space episode "Blast Off Into Space" in 1966. Martin appeared on a Gilligan's Island episode as a man who was supposedly alone on the island for a radio show contest. He appeared on James Stewart's legal drama and murder mystery series Hawkins from 1973 to 1974. T.T. was also featured in a two-part The Rockford Files 1977 episode as T.T. Flowers in this episode "The Trees, the Bees, and T. T. Flowers" was an episode that explored urbanization and the environment.

On April 19, 1980, one of his last acting gigs was as host of Saturday Night Live. Martin portrayed himself as the strict owner of a French language camp for children in one of the skits, based on his appearance as the prison captain from Cool Hand Luke. "What we have here is the inability to communicate BILINGUALLY!" the film's director said. He played a terminally ill man whose dying will and testament was captured on video. He did his Tennessee Williams impression once more during his monologue. Originally scheduled to be rerun in 1980, but it was later cancelled and replaced by another episode due to Martin's death.

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