Strother Martin
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as Percy Garris Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Strother Martin (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980) was an American actor in numerous films and television programs. Martin is perhaps best known as the prison "captain" in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, where he uttered the line, "What we've got here is...failure to communicate."
Filmography
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as Percy Garris
Cool Hand Luke
as Captain
The Wild Bunch
as Coffer
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Floyd
True Grit
as Colonel G. Stonehill
Up in Smoke
as Mr. Stoner
The Asphalt Jungle
as William Doldy (uncredited)
Slap Shot
as Joe McGrath
Kiss Me Deadly
as Harvey Wallace
A Star Is Born
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
The Sons of Katie Elder
as Ned Ross
The Horse Soldiers
as Virgil
McLintock!
as Agard
Hard Times
as Poe
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Bowen
Rooster Cogburn
as Shanghai McCoy
The Champ
as Riley
Nevada Smith
as Strother (uncredited)
Harper
as Claude
The Villain
as Parody Jones