“What we’ve got here is… a Strother Martin movie ranking page.”
Want to know the best Strother Martin movies? How about the worst Strother Martin movies? Curious about Strother Martin box office grosses or which Strother Martin movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Strother Martin movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Strother Martin (1919-1980) was an American actor who mainly appeared in supporting roles. Strothers career spanned four decades. His line, “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” in 1966’s Cool Hand Luke is considered one of the greatest lines in movie history. His IMDb page shows 176 acting credits from 1950 to 1980. This page will rank Strother Martin movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition. We listed over movies in our rankings, but there are some of his movies that were not included. This was due to lack of box office information.
Strother Martin Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Strother Martin Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Strother Martin movies by co-stars of his movies.
- Sort Strother Martin movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Strother Martin movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Strother Martin movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Jack Elam movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Strother Martin movie won.
- Sort Strother Martin movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Strother Martin
1. Strother Douglas Martin Jr. was born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1919.
2. In 1936 Strother Douglas won the National Junior Springboard Division Championship at age 17. He never won the adult championship, finishing second in 1944 and 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 1948-50, including The Damned Don’t Cry (1950).
3. Strother Martin appeared in six movies with John Wayne and Paul Newman.
4. Strother Martin did an episode of the The Dick Van Dyke Show called “Baby Fat” in which he portrayed a playwright based on Tennessee Williams. 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.
5. One of Strother Martin’s last acting jobs was as host of Saturday Night Live on April 19, 1980.
Check out Strother Martin’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
Strother Martin’s famous line from Cool Hand Luke.
“What we’re dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law.”
Jackie Gleason’s not as famous line from Smokey and the Bandit.
I’ve seen 24 of the 45 films on the chart, probably more. Favorites include – Hard Times, True Grit, Slap Shot, Butch Cassidy, Liberty Valance, The Wild Bunch, Sons of Katie Elder, Shenandoah, Cowboy and Cool Hand Luke.
Butch Cassidy tops Box Office and UMR charts but failed to get into the top 5 in the critics chart, no.1 on there is Cool Hand Luke.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve…thanks for checking out our Strother Martin page. His line in Cool Hand Luke is one of the greats of all-time. Tally count: 24 for you and 22 for me. I have seen all of your favorites. Hard Times is a fun movie…I just did a page on the director of that one, Walter Hill…..that was his first movie. Attack kept my Butch and Sundance out of the Top 5…I guess I should see that one. Good stuff as always.
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Strother Martin in 1962’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Hey Bob…thanks for the Liberty Valance quote…..great movie…as Strother was a great character actor. Good stuff.