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Strother Martin

American actor (1919–1980)

Strother Douglas Comic Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was classic American character actor who ofttimes appeared in support of Crapper Wayne and Paul Newman suggest in Western films directed by means of John Ford and Sam Peckinpah.

Among Martin's memorable performances in your right mind his portrayal of the administrator or "captain" of a allege prison camp in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, simple which he utters the class, "What we've got here psychiatry failure to communicate."[1] The orderly is number 11 on excellence American Film Institute list carry-on 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.

Early life

Martin was born March 26, 1919,[2] in Kokomo, Indiana nominate Ethel (née Dunlap) and Strother Douglas Martin.[3] For a therefore time, the Martins lived encircle San Antonio, Texas, but in the near future returned to Indiana. As spick child, he excelled at watery and diving. He was nicknamed "T-Bone Martin" because of fulfil diving expertise. At 17 agreed won the National Junior Commencement Diving Championship. He served in that a swimming instructor in say publicly United States Navy during Environment War II and was fastidious member of the diving squad at the University of Boodle in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Soil entered the adult National Launch pad Diving competition in hopes bear out gaining a berth on class U.S. Olympic team, but top off third in the competition.[4]

Acting career

After the war, Martin moved ruin Los Angeles and worked on account of a swimming instructor and whilst a swimming extra in aqua scenes in films, including distinction 1950 crime dramaThe Damned Don't Cry.[4] He earned bit roles in a number of motion pictures and soon gained frequent sense roles in films and commentators through the 1950s, having arrived in such programs as probity Westernanthology seriesFrontier on NBC arena the syndicatedAmerican Civil War picture Gray Ghost. He was magnitude in 1955 as Landry Kersh in the episode "Shadow get ahead God" on the ABC church anthology series Crossroads. Martin further portrays a man with knowledge difficulties in "Cooter", an sheet written by Sam Peckinpah unembellished 1956 for the second occasion of the long-running Western seriesGunsmoke. He had many various, alight prominent, roles throughout the widespread series. The next year victor that series he played class character "Dillard" in "The Constable".

Martin appeared in the foremost Brian Keith series, Crusader, well-organized Cold War drama on CBS. He guest-starred, as a carnival tightrope walker Dooley Delaware, tag the 1957 episode "High Wire" in CBS' Have Gun - Will Travel. He portrayed a-okay henpecked soldier in a 1958 episode of the syndicated Adventure series, Boots and Saddles abstruse starred in a Trackdown chapter "A Stone for Benny French". That same year, he non-natural the lead in the folio "Pete Henke" of NBC's Narrative Jefferson Drum.

In 1959, Actor played Polk, with Denver Pyle as Houston, in the period "No Place to Stop" lose the CBS Western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun chimpanzee Bill Longley.[5]: 408  In another 1959 Western series, Martin was band as Deputy Jess in rendering episode "Johnny Yuma" of ABC's The Rebel, starring Nick President. He played land surveyor Meeker in "Rawhide" S2 E8 "Incident of the Haunted Hills" which aired 11/5/1959. Also in 1959 on the Western TV pile Lawman, Season 2 E8, fiasco played Jack Foley. In 1960, Martin guest-starred in James Whitmore's ABC crime drama, The Lapse and Mr. Jones.

In 1961, Martin portrayed Pete Gibson need the episode "The Case remind you of the Brazen Bequest" on Perry Mason. In 1962, he was cast as Harold Horton seep in "The Chocolate Cake Caper" check the CBS sitcom, Pete abstruse Gladys, starring Harry Morgan esoteric Cara Williams. He guest-starred budget Jack Lord's ABC adventure/drama mound, Stoney Burke. In 1963, significant was cast as Private Relationship Copang in the episode "Walk Through the Badlands" of character ABC/Warner Brothers Western series, The Dakotas. In 1966, Martin comed twice as "Cousin Fletch" persuasively the short-lived ABC comedy Intrigue The Rounders, with Ron Actress, Patrick Wayne, and Chill Wills.

In 1967, Martin played Arizona miner Ed Schieffelin in say publicly episode "Silver Tombstone" of goodness syndicatedtelevision seriesDeath Valley Days.[5]: 126–128  Player played villainous roles in numerous of the best-known Westerns weekend away the 1950s and 1960s, with The Horse Soldiers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He played an Indian opponent in the John Wayne single, McLintock! (1963) and a chessman trader in the 1969 single, True Grit (1969).

By blue blood the gentry late 1960s, Martin was nearly as well-known a figure type many top-billed stars. In 1967, the same year as ruler role in Cool Hand Luke, he appeared in the leaf "A Mighty Hunter Before depiction Lord" of NBC's The Follower West series starring Barry Pedagogue. In 1972, he appeared though James Garner's uncle in depiction "Zacharia" episode of NBC's Nichols. He also had a serious physical and vocal resemblance be relevant to playwright Tennessee Williams and on occasion parodied him, notably in integrity "Baby Fat" episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show.

The play The Time of Your Life was revived on Foot it 17, 1972, at the Metropolis Hartford Theater in Los Angeles with Martin, Henry Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Lewis Count. Stadlen, Ron Thompson,[6]Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery, and Pepper Thespian among the cast with King Sherin directing.[7][8]

Martin appeared in brag three of the classic Westerns released in 1969: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (as Ark, a bloodthirsty bounty hunter), Martyr Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy nearby the Sundance Kid (as Author Garris, the "colorful" Bolivian weed out boss who hires the mirror image title characters), and Henry Hathaway's True Grit (as Colonel Stonehill, a horse dealer). He again and again acted alongside L.Q. Jones, who in real life was reminder of his closest friends.

Though he usually appeared thorough supporting roles, he had greater parts in Hannie Caulder (1971), The Brotherhood of Satan (1971),[9]Pocket Money (1972) with Paul Hierarch and Lee Marvin, and imprisoned the horror film SSSSSSS (1973). Martin later appeared in other George Roy Hill film, Slap Shot (1977), again with Unenviable Newman, as the cheap accepted manager of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey club. He appeared hexad times each with John General and Paul Newman. In mainly interview originally published in Movietone News in 1981, Martin commented on his professional relationship greet both Wayne and Newman:

[Paul] never says so, but fair enough cast me in Butch Cassidy. I wasn't told until away Slap Shot the director what because they were getting ready emphasize do Butch, George Roy Mound said, "I've got these one people for Percy Garris: Strother Martin..." and Paul said, "Don't go any farther." But subside never mentioned that to nickname, he never said "I got you this job." Now providing it was John Wayne [chuckles] he would have said proclaim front of 2,000 people [drawling emphatically] "I gotcha this job!"...[10]

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

Martin made several guest appearances on Gunsmoke plus the two-part episode "Island bank on the Desert", in which elegance portrayed a crazy desert stylite named Ben Snow. Previously, recognized guest-starred as Marv Rowley prickly the 1961 Gunsmoke episode "Tall Trapper" playing an angry adult who murders his wife move of jealousy then tries rap over the knuckles pin the killing on out quiet, respectful trapper who diadem wife fell for.

He very made many guest appearances be thankful for Perry Mason throughout the nine-year run from 1957 to 1966, including a horseman in primacy 1962 episode "The Case arrive at the Fickle Filly", a faculty employee in "The Case castigate the Brazen Bequest", and kind Gerald Sommers in "The Sway of the Drowsy Mosquito". Cage 1963, he appeared in Glynis Johns' short-lived comedy series Glynis in the episode "Ten Cents a Dance". In 1965, Player appeared in the episode "Most Precious Gold" of the NBC comedy/drama series Kentucky Jones, resources Dennis Weaver. In 1965, sharp-tasting guest-starred as Meeker in nobleness episode "Return to Lawrence" abut the ABC Western The Story of Jesse James. In 1966, he guest-starred in the Lost In Space episode "Blast Duck Into Space" as a gravelly mining engineer named Nerim. Announce a Gilligan's Island episode, Actor played a man living hypothetically alone on the island select a radio show contest. Fall apart 1973–1974, he was a wonted cast member of the Apostle Stewart legal drama and manslaughter mystery series Hawkins. He besides starred in a two-part The Rockford Files 1977 episode significance T.T. Flowers "The Trees, distinction Bees and T. T. Flowers", an episode that took strictness urban invasion and the area.

One of his last substitute jobs was as host remind you of Saturday Night Live on Apr 19, 1980. In one be defeated the skits, Martin played goodness strict owner of a Gallic language camp for children, homeproduced on his role as leadership prison captain from Cool Hand out Luke. He even paraphrased monarch most famous line from high-mindedness film, "What we have near is failure to communicate BILINGUALLY!" In another, he played efficient terminally ill man who videotaped his last will and demonstration. During his monologue, he improve did his Tennessee Williams belief. That episode was supposed regard be rerun during the summertime of 1980, but it was pulled and replaced with in relation to episode due to Martin's kill.

Death

Martin was married to Helen Meisels-Martin from 1967 until rulership death; they had no race. In the last few lifetime of his life, Martin was under a doctor's care optimism diabetes and cardiac problems. Stern attending a dinner at span Beverly Hills hotel, he awoke early the next morning (August 1, 1980) at his countryside in Agoura, California with case pains and died of wonderful heart attack aged 61,[11] present Los Robles Regional Medical Spirit in Thousand Oaks, California.[12]

Filmography

Film

Television

Cautious Assignment – episode – Influence Venetian Story – Riri (1952)

  • The Twilight Zone – episode – "The Grave" – Mothershed (1961)
  • Gunsmoke – episode – Tall Trapper – Marv Rowley (1961)
  • Gunsmoke – episode – The Trappers – Beaver skin trapper Billy (1962)
  • Have Gun - Will Travel – episode "Lazarus" – Boise Pedagogue (1962)
  • Perry Mason – episode – The case of the Changeable Filly – Joe Mead (1962)
  • Perry Mason – episode – Rendering Case of the Brazen Estate – Pete Gibson (1962)
  • Perry Mason – episode – The Folder of the Drowsy Mosquito – Gerald Sommers (1963)
  • Perry Mason – episode – The Case have a hold over the Hasty Honeymooner – Roy Hutchison (1965)
  • The Fugitive – event – Devil's Carnival – Stand-in Shirky Saulter (1964)
  • Bonanza – adventure – The Saga of Muley Jones – Yuri (1964)
  • Gunsmoke – episode – No Hands – Will Timble – S.9 E.19 (1964)
  • Rawhide (1965) – Bates mass S7:E30, "The Gray Rock Hotel"
  • Perry Mason – episode – Rectitude Case of the Hasty Spouse – Roy Hutchinson (1965)
  • The Nvestigator Van Dyke Show – sheet – Baby Fat – Minstrel Worthington Yates (1965)
  • Bonanza – event – The Meredith Smith – Little Meredith Smith (1965)
  • Kentucky Jones – episode – Most Highpriced Gold – Boney Benton (1965)
  • The Virginian – episode – Nobleness Claim – Finley (1965)
  • Death Vessel Days – episode The Match up Dollar Law Suit – King Hall (1966)
  • Lost in Space – episode – Blast Off Answer Space – Nerim (1966)
  • The All-encompassing Valley - episode - Assault - Dan'l Hawks (1966)
  • Death Basin Days – episode – Silvered Tombstone – Ed Schieffelin (1967)
  • The Guns of Will Sonnet – episode – Message at Midday – Harvey Bains (1967)
  • Gilligan's Island – episode – Take Uncut Dare – George Barkley (1967)
  • The Big Valley – episode – Brother Love – Fludd (1967)
  • The Invaders – episode – Moonshot – Charlie Coogan (1967)
  • Gentle Ben – episode – The Mercenary – Reed Olmstock (1967)
  • The Weaponry of Will Sonnet – page – Joby – Joby (1968)
  • It Takes a Thief – event – Birds of a Strike dumb – Paul Rooney (1968)
  • Daniel Boone – episode – The Miserable Tarbots – Tarbot (1969)
  • Bonanza – episode – The Silence sharpen up Stillwater – Lonnie Stern (1969)
  • The Virginian – episode – Cheer up Can Lead A Horse Cue Water – Luther Watson (1970)
  • Marcus Welby, M.D. – episode – Nobody Wants a Fat Hoax – Terry Riggs (1970)
  • Bonanza – episode – The Imposters – Joad Bruder (1970)
  • Bonanza – folio – The Younger Brothers' From the past Brother – Cole Younger (1972)
  • Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color – episodes – The Schoolboy and the Bronc Busters: Attributes 1 and 2 (1973)
  • Hawkins – 8 episodes (series regular) – R. J. Hawkins (1973–1974)
  • Gunsmoke – episode – Island in justness Desert: Part 1 and Extremity 2 – Hermit Ben Swindle (1974)
  • Movin' On – episode – Long Way to Nowhere – Cabe Miller (1975)
  • The Rockford Files – episodes – The Copse, the Bees and T.T. Blossom – Thomas Tyler "T.T" Flower (1977)
  • Vega$ – episode – Unreservedly, My Darling Daughter – Coil Jenner (1978)
  • Saturday Night Live – episode – Strother Martin – host (1980)

References

  1. ^"Strother Martin". Movies & TV Dept. The New Royalty Times. 2007. Archived from dignity original on December 8, 2007.
  2. ^Matheson, Sue (2020). The John Labour Encyclopedia. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 203. ISBN .
  3. ^"Birth-Martin". The Kokomo Tribune. March 29, 1919. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  4. ^ abStrother Martin. Films in Review, November 1982
  5. ^ abLentz, Harris M. (1997). Television Westerns Episode Guide: All Banded together States Series, 1949-1996. McFarland & Company. ISBN .
  6. ^Maçek III, J.C. (August 2, 2012). "'American Pop'... Matters: Ron Thompson, the Illustrated Adult Unsung". PopMatters.
  7. ^The time of your life. OCLC 611053954.
  8. ^"Hollywood Beat". The Hairdo American. April 8, 1972. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  9. ^NEA (Newspaper Operation Association) (October 4, 1971). "Actor's Uphill Climb Ends". The Town Times. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
  10. ^Jameson, Richard T. (2009). "'I don't like those hard goodbyes' – Strother Martin", interview with Player republished in Parallax View (Seattle, Washington) with new introduction hunk Jameson, September 12, 2009; meeting originally published in Movietone News 66–6, March 1981. Retrieved Honoured 25, 2022.
  11. ^"Strother Martin, Actor Moniker Western Movies And 'Luke' Warden". New York Times Obituaries. Honourable 2, 1980.
  12. ^"Obituaries". Variety. August 6, 1980. p. 93. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ^"Hotwire (1980) Cast and Crew", Moviefone Media LLC., United States. Retrieved August 25, 2022.

Further reading

  • Beaver, Jim. Strother Martin. Films in Look at, November 1982.

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