Strother Martin Net Worth

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Strother Douglas Martin, Jr. net worth is
$12 Million

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Strother Douglas Martin, Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980), was a popular American character actor who often appeared in support of superstars John Wayne and Paul Newman and was memorable 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 since famous 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. 
Full NameStrother Douglas Martin, Jr.
Net Worth$12 Million
Date Of BirthMarch 26, 1919
DiedApril 26, 2004, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Place Of BirthKokomo, Indiana, USA
Height5' 7" (1.7 m)
OccupationActor
ProfessionActor, Soundtrack
EducationUniversity of Michigan
SpouseHelen Meisels
NicknamesStrother Martin, Martin, Strother
IMDBhttp://imdb.com/name/nm0001510
Music GroupsThe Baby Namboos
Star SignAries
#Trademark
1Often played grimy, unlikeable villains
#Quote
1[on his career] Maybe there has been some diamond dust and gold glitter in my life . . . but among so much shit, it didn't have much luster.
2[Three days before his death] No man can achieve immortality. We don't live for what comes after we are dead, but for what we can achieve in this life - the only chance we have.
3[interviewed in March, 1980] The character actor's struggle for survival is a bitch today. There was a time when people like me would have been approached, at least, to be under contract to the studio and farmed out picture by picture. It's true that a man like myself does not know after this movie--this may be the last movie I ever do in my life. I have no assurance.
4Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on one's face and bearing. A few lines on the face and a few gray hairs coupled with the idiosyncrasies an actor adopts throughout life help out round out the actor's personality. So far as I'm concerned, the older a character actor gets, the firmer his position is.
#Fact
1Once described the characters he played in westerns as "prairie scum".
2During the 1950s and 1960s he was active in Arthur Kennedy's Stage Society, along with Gary Cooper, Akim Tamiroff, Jeff Corey, Tony Curtis, Mildred Dunnock, Anthony Quinn and Patricia Neal.
3In 1970 the First Annual Strother Martin Film Festival was held at Chicio State College in California.
4In 1936 he won the National Junior Sringboard Division Championship at age 17. He never won the adult championship, finishing second in 1944 nd third in 1946. Although he barely missed making the 1948 Olympic Team, he did gain access to Hollywood by giving swimming lessons to Marion Davies at San Simeon and the children of Charles Chaplin. He was hired as a swimming extra in films between 1948 and 1950m including The Damned Don't Cry (1950).
5The name Strother is old Teutonic for 'river.'.
6The press dubbed him as "The Andy Devine for the Age of Anxiety" and "A Gabby Hayes without Honor.".
7Played a character named Stoner in two unrelated movies: Sssssss (1973) and Up in Smoke (1978).
8Appeared in six movies with John Wayne: The Horse Soldiers (1959), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), McLintock! (1963), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969) and Rooster Cogburn (1975).
9He collaborated with friend and filmmaker J.D. Feigelson on dialog in the screenplay for the cult film Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981). Feigelson was writing the the film to star Strother, but before it could be set for production he passed away. Charles Durning replaced Martin in the lead role of Otis P. Hazelrigg. One of the memorable lines in the film was Martin's contribution: "He's thirty-three years old, Mrs. Ritter, he's physically mature.".
10Interviewed in "Bad at the Bijou" by William R. Horner (McFarland, 1982).
11No relation to Dewey Martin although erroneously claimed as such in some sources.
12Frequently co-starred with L.Q. Jones, who in real life was one of his closest friends.
13Frequently cast alongside Paul Newman, in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Slap Shot (1977) and several others.
14Did an episode of the The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) called "Baby Fat" in which he portrayed a playwright based on Tennessee Williams in 1965. Fifteen years later while hosting Saturday Night Live (1975), he admitted during the monologue that because of that part, many times he was actually mistaken for the famous playwright.
15Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Court of Remembrance, #G62420.
16Bitten by a snake during filming of Sssssss (1973)

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Hotwire1980The Weasel
Tajna Nikole Tesle1980George Westinghouse
Better Late Than Never1979TV MovieJ.D. Ashcroft
The Villain1979Parody Jones
Nightwing1979Selwyn
The Champ1979Riley
Love and Bullets1979Louis Monk
Stubby Pringle's Christmas1978TV MovieOld Hollander
Vega$1978TV SeriesHank Jenner
Up in Smoke1978Arnold Stoner
Steel Cowboy1978TV MoviePinky Pincus
The End1978Dr. Waldo Kling
Baretta1975-1977TV SeriesHarris Stump / Lyman P. Dokker / Doc Stockwell / ...
ABC Weekend Specials1977TV SeriesBill Driscoll
Slap Shot1977Joe McGrath
The Rockford Files1977TV SeriesThomas Tyler 'T.T.' Flowers
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday1976Billy
Movin' On1975TV SeriesCabe Miller
Rooster Cogburn1975McCoy
Hard Times1975Poe
One of Our Own1975TV MovieLeRoy Atkins
Petrocelli1975TV SeriesClate Dobie
Gunsmoke1956-1974TV SeriesBen Snow / Timble / Billy / ...
Paper Moon1974TV Series
Hawkins1973-1974TV SeriesR.J. Hawkins
The Rookies1974TV SeriesTeacher
Sssssss1973Dr. Carl Stoner
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color1973TV SeriesBuckshot
Bonanza1964-1972TV SeriesCole Younger / Joad Bruder / Lonnie Stern / ...
Pocket Money1972Bill Garrett
Nichols1972TV SeriesZachariah
Hannie Caulder1971Rufus Clemens
Fools' Parade1971Lee Cottrill
The Brotherhood of Satan1971Doc Duncan
Red Sky at Morning1971John Cloyd
Love, American Style1970TV SeriesDennis Wright (segment "Love and the Old Boyfriend")
The Ballad of Cable Hogue1970Bowen
Marcus Welby, M.D.1970TV SeriesTerry Riggs
The Virginian1965-1970TV SeriesLuther Watson / Finley
Daniel Boone1969TV SeriesTarbot
The Name of the Game1969TV SeriesNanyface
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969Percy Garris
The Wild Bunch1969Coffer
True Grit1969Col. G. Stonehill
The Doris Day Show1969TV SeriesTyrone Lovey
The Guns of Will Sonnett1967-1968TV SeriesJoby / Harvey Bains
It Takes a Thief1968TV SeriesWillard Knox
The Danny Thomas Hour1968TV SeriesPaul Rooney
He & She1968TV SeriesThe Rev. Mr. Anderson
Run for Your Life1968TV SeriesHolly Amberton
Gentle Ben1968TV SeriesReed Olmstock
Tarzan1967TV SeriesO'Keefe / Captain Boggs
Cool Hand Luke1967Captain
Iron Horse1966-1967TV SeriesApplegate / Johnny Burke
The Flim-Flam Man1967Lovick
The Invaders1967TV SeriesCharlie Coogan
Death Valley Days1964-1967TV SeriesEd Schieffelin / Alfred Hall / Charlie Neal / ...
The Big Valley1966-1967TV SeriesFludd / Dan'l Hawkes
The Road West1967TV SeriesGrady Couts
Gilligan's Island1967TV SeriesGeorge Barkley
The Rounders1966TV SeriesCousin Fletch
Lost in Space1966TV SeriesNerim
An Eye for an Eye1966Trumbull
Nevada Smith1966Barney (uncredited)
A Man Called Shenandoah1966TV SeriesCowboy
Harper1966Claude
The Legend of Jesse James1966TV SeriesMeeker
Perry Mason1961-1965TV SeriesRoy Hutchinson / Gerald Sommers / Joe Mead / ...
The Sons of Katie Elder1965Jeb Ross
Shenandoah1965Train Engineer
Rawhide1959-1965TV SeriesBates / Meeker
Brainstorm1965Mr. Clyde
The Dick Van Dyke Show1965TV SeriesHarper Worthington Yates
Kentucky Jones1965TV SeriesBoney Benton
Profiles in Courage1965TV Series
The Fugitive1964TV SeriesDeputy Shirky Saulter
Invitation to a Gunfighter1964Fiddler
The Lieutenant1964TV SeriesTaxi Driver
McLintock!1963Agard
Glynis1963TV SeriesDance Hall Customer
Showdown1963Charlie Reeder
The Dakotas1963TV SeriesPvt. Antrim Copang
77 Sunset Strip1963TV SeriesCharles Sloane
Ben Casey1962TV SeriesCalvin 'Rabbits' Ross / Adam Raemecker
Stoney Burke1962TV SeriesBuck Buckley
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962Floyd
The Dick Powell Theatre1962TV Series
Pete and Gladys1962TV SeriesHarold Horton
Outlaws1962TV SeriesGarvey
The New Breed1962TV SeriesBenny Kohler
Have Gun - Will Travel1957-1962TV SeriesBoise Peabody / Carew / Dooley Delaware / ...
The Twilight Zone1961TV SeriesMothershed
The Deadly Companions1961Parson
The Americans1961TV SeriesWadd
Sanctuary1961Dog Boy
The Law and Mr. Jones1961TV Series
Hotel de Paree1959-1960TV SeriesAaron Donager
Lawman1959TV SeriesJack Foley
The Rebel1959TV SeriesJess
The Horse Soldiers1959Virgil
Whirlybirds1959TV Series'The Great Herman'
The Wild and the Innocent1959Ben Stocker
The Texan1959TV SeriesPolk Blackston
Black Saddle1959TV SeriesPit Thatcher
The Shaggy Dog1959Thurm
Jefferson Drum1958TV SeriesPete Henke
Trackdown1958TV SeriesBenny French
Bitter Heritage1958TV MovieEarle Eheeler
The Walter Winchell File1958TV SeriesLittle Julie
Studio One in Hollywood1958TV Series
The Lineup1957-1958TV Series
Panic!1958TV SeriesHank Judson
Playhouse 901958TV SeriesEarle Wheeler
Navy Log1958TV SeriesD'Amico
Cowboy1958Cowhand Bitten by Snake (uncredited)
Broken Arrow1957-1958TV SeriesJoe Roman / Renton
General Electric Theater1956-1958TV SeriesObie / Gunnery Officer Daly
Man Without a Gun1958TV Series
The Adventures of Jim Bowie1958TV SeriesLeopold Vaupel
Boots and Saddles1958TV SeriesSlocum
Black Patch1957Deputy Petey Walker
The Web1957TV Series
Copper Sky1957Pokey
Lassie1956-1957TV SeriesLem Boots
Telephone Time1957TV Series
Matinee Theatre1957TV SeriesPhil
The Millionaire1957TV SeriesPete Hill
Zane Grey Theater1957TV SeriesJoby
The Gray Ghost1957TV SeriesMichael
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan1957TV SeriesTomar
The Black Whip1956Thorny
I Love Lucy1956TV SeriesCafe Waiter
Attack1956Sgt. Ingersol
Johnny Concho1956Townsman (uncredited)
Schlitz Playhouse1953-1956TV SeriesBellhop / Mr. Ralph
Frontier1956TV SeriesLee / Mayes
Crusader1956TV SeriesRay Dutcher
World Without End1956Nihka (uncredited)
Cavalcade of America1955TV SeriesWilkins
Target Zero1955Pvt. Dan O'Hirons (uncredited)
Crossroads1955TV SeriesLandry Kersh
Stage 71955TV SeriesPete / Lt. Bob Handley
The Big Knife1955Stillman (uncredited)
Kiss Me Deadly1955Harvey Wallace
Strategic Air Command1955Airman (uncredited)
The Man Behind the Badge1955TV SeriesBrother Daniel
The Silver Chalice1954Father (uncredited)
Drum Beat1954Scotty
Studio 571954TV SeriesPete Dutton
A Star Is Born1954Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Mystery Is My Business1954TV Series
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse1954TV Series
Prisoner of War1954Man on Crutches (uncredited)
The Lone Wolf1954TV SeriesNick Davis
World for Ransom1954Corporal (uncredited)
Treasury Men in Action1954TV Series
Four Star Playhouse1953TV SeriesTom Blair
South Sea Woman1953Marine in Audience at Court-martial (uncredited)
Hollywood Opening Night1953TV Series
The Magnetic Monster1953Co-Pilot
Big Town1952TV SeriesPaul Evans / Eddie Benson
Androcles and the Lion1952Soldier (uncredited)
Fireside Theatre1951-1952TV Series
Chevron Theatre1952TV Series
Storm Over Tibet1952Co-pilot
Invitation Playhouse: Mind Over Murder1952TV Series
Dragnet1952TV Series
Scandal Sheet1952Man on crutches (uncredited)
Dangerous Assignment1952TV SeriesRiri
Rhubarb1951Michael 'Shorty' McGirk (uncredited)
The Red Badge of Courage1951Corporal (voice, uncredited)
Stars Over Hollywood1951TV Series
The Asphalt Jungle1950William Doldy (uncredited)
The Damned Don't Cry1950Springboard Diver (uncredited)

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Saturday Night Live1980TV Series performer - 1 episode

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Saturday Night Live1980TV SeriesHimself - Host
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy1978TV SpecialTurtle Ranch Boss
Mitzi and a Hundred Guys1975TV SpecialHimself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1973TV SeriesHimself

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Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1974Golden GlobeGolden Globes, USABest Supporting Actor - TelevisionHawkins (1973)

Known for movies

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