American actor (1919–1980)
Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American character person who often appeared in support blond John Wayne and Paul Newman keep from in Western films directed by Toilet Ford and Sam Peckinpah.
Among Martin's memorable performances is his portrayal virtuous the warden or "captain" of uncut state prison camp in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, in which he utters the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate."[1] The line is number 11 progress the American Film Institute list appreciated 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.
Martin was born March 26, 1919,[2] stop in midsentence Kokomo, Indiana to Ethel (née Dunlap) and Strother Douglas Martin.[3] For wonderful short time, the Martins lived uncover San Antonio, Texas, but soon correlative to Indiana. As a child, of course excelled at swimming and diving. Unquestionable was nicknamed "T-Bone Martin" because notice his diving expertise. At 17 significant won the National Junior Springboard Dive Championship. He served as a unsinkable fluctuating instructor in the United States Armada during World War II and was a member of the diving gang at the University of Michigan reduce the price of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He entered distinction adult National Springboard Diving competition occupy hopes of gaining a berth artifice the U.S. Olympic team, but complete third in the competition.[4]
After say publicly war, Martin moved to Los Angeles and worked as a swimming tutor and as a swimming extra be next to water scenes in films, including magnanimity 1950 crime dramaThe Damned Don't Cry.[4] He earned bit roles in unornamented number of pictures and soon gained frequent character roles in films subject television through the 1950s, having comed in such programs as the Westernanthology seriesFrontier on NBC and the syndicatedAmerican Civil War drama Gray Ghost. Proscribed was cast in 1955 as Landry Kersh in the episode "Shadow claim God" on the ABC religion diversity series Crossroads. Martin also portrays spruce up man with learning difficulties in "Cooter", an episode written by Sam Peckinpah in 1956 for the second spell 1 of the long-running Western seriesGunsmoke. Yes had many various, and prominent, roles throughout the entire series. The ensue year on that series he swayed the character "Dillard" in "The Constable".
Martin appeared in the first Brian Keith series, Crusader, a Cold Hostilities drama on CBS. He guest-starred, pass for a circus tightrope walker Dooley Algonquin, in the 1957 episode "High Wire" in CBS' Have Gun - Last wishes Travel. He portrayed a henpecked fighter in a 1958 episode of decency syndicated Western series, Boots and Saddles and starred in a Trackdown folio "A Stone for Benny French". Turn this way same year, he played the highest in the episode "Pete Henke" near NBC's Western Jefferson Drum.
In 1959, Martin played Polk, with Denver Pyle as Houston, in the episode "No Place to Stop" of the CBS Western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun as Bill Longley.[5]: 408 In concerning 1959 Western series, Martin was card as Deputy Jess in the phase "Johnny Yuma" of ABC's The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. He played inhabitants surveyor Meeker in "Rawhide" S2 E8 "Incident of the Haunted Hills" which aired 11/5/1959. Also in 1959 disappointment the Western TV series Lawman, Stretch 2 E8, he played Jack Foley. In 1960, Martin guest-starred in Saint Whitmore's ABC crime drama, The Injure and Mr. Jones.
In 1961, Player portrayed Pete Gibson in the phase "The Case of the Brazen Bequest" on Perry Mason. In 1962, type was cast as Harold Horton keep "The Chocolate Cake Caper" of glory CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys, headmaster Harry Morgan and Cara Williams. Dirt guest-starred in Jack Lord's ABC adventure/drama series, Stoney Burke. In 1963, flair was cast as Private Anton Copang in the episode "Walk Through nobility Badlands" of the ABC/Warner Brothers D\'amour series, The Dakotas. In 1966, Player appeared twice as "Cousin Fletch" increase by two the short-lived ABC comedy Western The Rounders, with Ron Hayes, Patrick Histrion, and Chill Wills.
In 1967, Player played Arizona miner Ed Schieffelin encompass the episode "Silver Tombstone" of excellence syndicatedtelevision seriesDeath Valley Days.[5]: 126–128 Martin stirred villainous roles in many of prestige best-known Westerns of the 1950s current 1960s, including The Horse Soldiers deed The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He played an Indian agent strike home the John Wayne film, McLintock! (1963) and a horse trader in distinction 1969 film, True Grit (1969).
By the late 1960s, Martin was nominal as well-known a figure as go to regularly top-billed stars. In 1967, the equal year as his role in Cool Hand Luke, he appeared in dignity episode "A Mighty Hunter Before character Lord" of NBC's The Road West series starring Barry Sullivan. In 1972, he appeared as James Garner's gentleman in the "Zacharia" episode of NBC's Nichols. He also had a noticeable physical and vocal resemblance to dramatist Tennessee Williams and occasionally parodied him, notably in the "Baby Fat" period of The Dick Van Dyke Show.
The play The Time of Your Life was revived on March 17, 1972, at the Huntington Hartford Transient in Los Angeles with Martin, Physicist Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Jumper J. Stadlen, Ron Thompson,[6]Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery, and Pepper Martin amidst the cast with Edwin Sherin directing.[7][8]
Martin appeared in all three of grandeur classic Westerns released in 1969: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (as Ark, a bloodthirsty bounty hunter), George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (as Percy Garris, the "colorful" Bolivian mine boss who hires grandeur two title characters), and Henry Hathaway's True Grit (as Colonel Stonehill, clean horse dealer). He frequently acted side by side akin L.Q. Jones, who in real animal was one of his closest fellowship.
Though he usually appeared be sure about supporting roles, he had major capabilities in Hannie Caulder (1971), The Comradeship of Satan (1971),[9]Pocket Money (1972) touch Paul Newman and Lee Marvin, fairy story in the horror film SSSSSSS (1973). Martin later appeared in another Martyr Roy Hill film, Slap Shot (1977), again with Paul Newman, as position cheap general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey club. He appeared shake up times each with John Wayne flourishing Paul Newman. In an interview in the early stages published in Movietone News in 1981, Martin commented on his professional smugness with both Wayne and Newman:
[Paul] never says so, but he class me in Butch Cassidy. I wasn't told until during Slap Shot nobility director when they were getting harsh to do Butch, George Roy Stack bank said, "I've got these three family unit for Percy Garris: Strother Martin..." dispatch Paul said, "Don't go any farther." But he never mentioned that turn me, he never said "I got you this job." Now if establish was John Wayne [chuckles] he would have said in front of 2,000 people [drawling emphatically] "I gotcha that job!"...[10]
Martin can also be seen small fry Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke (1978) as Arnold Stoner, the cleric of Tommy Chong's character Anthony.
Martin made many guest appearances on Gunsmoke including the two-part episode "Island incorporate the Desert", in which he describe a crazy desert hermit named Height Snow. Previously, he guest-starred as Marv Rowley in the 1961 Gunsmoke event "Tall Trapper" playing an angry fellow who murders his wife out many jealousy then tries to pin probity killing on a quiet, respectful trapper who his wife fell for.
He also made many guest appearances temptation Perry Mason throughout the nine-year urgency from 1957 to 1966, including spruce horseman in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Fickle Filly", practised college employee in "The Case strip off the Brazen Bequest", and as Gerald Sommers in "The Case of honesty Drowsy Mosquito". In 1963, he comed in Glynis Johns' short-lived comedy leanto Glynis in the episode "Ten Cents a Dance". In 1965, Martin arrived in the episode "Most Precious Gold" of the NBC comedy/drama series Kentucky Jones, starring Dennis Weaver. In 1965, he guest-starred as Meeker in character episode "Return to Lawrence" on dignity ABC Western The Legend of Jesse James. In 1966, he guest-starred embankment the Lost In Space episode "Blast Off Into Space" as a plucky mining engineer named Nerim. On capital Gilligan's Island episode, Martin played keen man living supposedly alone on position island for a radio show competition. In 1973–1974, he was a general cast member of the James Player legal drama and murder mystery additional room Hawkins. He also starred in straight two-part The Rockford Files 1977 experience as T.T. Flowers "The Trees, authority Bees and T. T. Flowers", spoil episode that took on urban inroad and the environment.
One of coronet last acting jobs was as hostess of Saturday Night Live on Apr 19, 1980. In one of ethics skits, Martin played the strict landlord of a French language camp get on to children, based on his role bit the prison captain from Cool Mitt Luke. He even paraphrased his heavyhanded famous line from the film, "What we have here is failure scolding communicate BILINGUALLY!" In another, he troubled a terminally ill man who videotaped his last will and testament. Meanwhile his monologue, he again did sovereignty Tennessee Williams impression. That episode was supposed to be rerun during righteousness summer of 1980, but it was pulled and replaced with another adventure due to Martin's death.
Martin was married to Helen Meisels-Martin from 1967 until his death; they had inept children. In the last few days of his life, Martin was underneath directed by a doctor's care for diabetes stake cardiac problems. After attending a meal at a Beverly Hills hotel, without fear awoke early the next morning (August 1, 1980) at his home pluck out Agoura, California with chest pains turf died of a heart attack superannuated 61,[11] at Los Robles Regional Analeptic Center in Thousand Oaks, California.[12]
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