Strother Martin
(1919-1980)
American actor
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Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American character actor who often appeared in support of John Wayne and Paul Newman and in Western films directed by John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. Martin perhaps is best known as the prison captain in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, in which he uttered the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate." The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.
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Strother Douglas Martin, Jr. 26 March 1919 Kokomo, Indiana, USA
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1 August 1980 (aged 61) Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
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