His family moved soon after his birth to San Antonio, Texas, but quickly returned to Indiana. The acting we do get is pretty nice.
This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. When the line made instant history, he got more notice and better roles. In 1966, he guest-starred in the Lost In Space episode "Blast Off Into Space" as a gritty mining engineer named Nerim. Please note: You are asking volunteers to find and take a photo of the headstone. He takes that bet and has little difficulty going to the grave.

View production, box office, & company info. Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. "[1] The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. In an interview published in Movietone News 66-6, March 1981 (republished in Parallax-View, September 12, 2009), Strother Martin stated, “[Paul] never says so, but he cast me in Butch Cassidy.

Try again. He even paraphrased his most famous line from the film, "What we have here is failure to communicate BILINGUALLY!" Plese check the I'm not a robot checkbox.'. [2] For a short time, the Martins moved to San Antonio, but soon returned to Indiana. Drag images here or select from your computer for Strother Martin Jr. memorial. Share this memorial using social media sites or email.

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Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, California, USA. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. based on information from your browser. For help using the website visit our help page or contact support@findagrave.com. Lawman Conny Miller rides into a small dusty town not long after the townsfolk have gunned down the man he's been tracking for four months.

Your Scrapbook is currently empty. [5] Martin's distinctive, reedy voice and menacing demeanor made him ideal for villainous roles in many of the best-known Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s, including The Horse Soldiers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.


Failed to delete memorial. Afterwards, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as a swimming instructor, and as an extra in water scenes in Hollywood motion pictures, earning bit roles in some of the movies. We have 2 volunteers within fifty miles of your requested photo location. I understand that the story doesn't have that much to go on.What's great is that they never actually show what happens when he dies. In another, he played a terminally ill man who videotaped his last will and testament.

Was this review helpful to you? Thanks for your help! The play The Time of Your Life was revived on March 17, 1972, at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles with Martin, Henry Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Gloria Grahame, Lewis J. Stadlen, Ron Thompson,[6] Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery, and Pepper Martin among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing.[7][8]. Try again later. English By the late 1960s, Martin was almost as well-known a figure as many top-billed stars.

Failed to report flower. He is best remembered for his role as the ‘Prison Warden’ in the Paul Newman-led motion picture, "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), in which he utters the iconic line "What we got here is a failure to communicate." This FAQ is empty. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. 1118, citing Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

He was cast in 1955 as Landry Kersh in the episode "Shadow of God" on the ABC religion anthology series, Crossroads. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Walter Pidgeon (23 Sep 1897–25 Sep 1984), Find a Grave Memorial no. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional, No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. Title: 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. Looking for something to watch?

Martin appeared in the first Brian Keith series, Crusader, a Cold War drama on CBS. Family members linked to this person will appear here. ***. Leaving it however proves to be another matter however. From "Veronica Mars" to Rebecca take a look back at the career of Armie Hammer on and off the screen.

If you have questions, please contact support@findagrave.com. He also made many guest appearances on Perry Mason throughout the nine-year run from 1957 to 1966, including a horseman in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Fickle Filly", a college employee in "The Case of the Brazen Bequest", and the murderer in "The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito". or don't show this again—I am good at figuring things out. There is a problem with your email/password.

One of his last acting jobs was as host of Saturday Night Live on April 19, 1980. At 17, he won the National Junior Springboard Diving Championship. Leaving it however proves to be another matter however. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? This fits the urban legend well.

Oops, we were unable to send the email. This episode was supposed to be rerun during the summer of 1980, but was pulled and replaced with another episode due to his death. I wasn’t told until during Slap Shot, the director said … Back when they were getting ready to do Butch, George Roy Hill said, “I’ve got these three people for Percy Garris: Strother Martin” and Paul said, “Don’t go any farther.” But he never mentioned that to me, he never said “I got you this job.” Strother Martin can also be seen in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke (1978) as Arnold Stoner, the father of Tommy Chong's character Anthony. In the last decade of his life, his work as a character actor began to benefit from audience notice, making him more in demand than ever before. [10] His widow, who was 10 years his senior, died in 1997. Jones, who in real life was one of his closest friends.

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Martin later appeared in another George Roy Hill film, Slap Shot (1977), again with Paul Newman, as the cheap general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey club. He entered the National Springboard Diving Competition in hopes of getting a spot on the 1948 United States Olympic Team, but finished third in the competition. Use the HTML below. In 1965, Martin appeared in the episode "Most Precious Gold" of the NBC comedy/drama series Kentucky Jones, starring Dennis Weaver. You need a Find a Grave account to add things to this site. Your password must be at least 8 characters, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map.

In one of the skits, Martin played the strict owner of a French language camp for children, based on his role as the prison captain from Cool Hand Luke. He takes that bet and has little difficulty going to the grave. Please reset your password. GREAT NEWS! Martin was married to Helen Meisels-Martin from 1967 until his death. He guest-starred, as a circus tightrope walker Dooley Delaware, in the 1957 episode "High Wire" in CBS' Have Gun - Will Travel. In 1965, he guest-starred as Meeker in the episode "Return to Lawrence" on the ABC Western The Legend of Jesse James. It is nice when there's such an ambiguous ending. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. 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."

He frequently acted alongside L.Q. Written by Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Strother Martin Jr. (26 Mar 1919–1 Aug 1980), Find a Grave Memorial no. Martin was born in Kokomo, the county seat of Central Indiana's Howard County to Ethel (née Dunlap) and Strother Douglas Martin. Failed to remove flower. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. In 1966, Martin appeared twice as "Cousin Fletch" in the short-lived ABC comedy Western The Rounders, with Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, and Chill Wills.

American character actor who achieved considerable fame in the last decade of his life. 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. Martin appeared in all three of the classic Westerns released in 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 "colorful" Bolivian mine boss who hires the two title characters), and Henry Hathaway's True Grit (as Colonel Stonehill, a horse dealer).

Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. He feels like he's wasted that four months and someone bets him $20 he hasn't the nerve to visit the dead man's grave. garykmcd, A lot of episodes were based on older stories. If a new volunteer signs up in your requested photo location, they may see your existing request and take the photo.

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