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Strother Martin and Gordon Jones in McLintock! (1963)

Katharine Hepburn, John Wayne, Strother Martin, and Richard Romancito in Rooster Cogburn (1975)

James Stewart, Kurt Russell, Anne Baxter, and Strother Martin in Fools' Parade (1971)

James Arness, Strother Martin, and Dennis Weaver in Gunsmoke (1955)

Strother Martin in Have Gun - Will Travel (1957)

Strother Martin, Pamelyn Ferdin, and Amzie Strickland in Death Valley Days (1952)

Strother Martin in Death Valley Days (1952)

Strother Martin, Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, and Edmond O'Brien in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

James Stewart, John Wayne, Strother Martin, Lee Marvin, and Lee Van Cleef in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Strother Martin, Lee Marvin, and Lee Van Cleef in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, and Heather Menzies-Urich in Sssssss (1973)

Strother Martin and Charles Tyner in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Strother Martin, Jonathan Harris, and Bill Mumy in Lost in Space (1965)

Strother Martin in Saturday Night Live (1975)

Strother Martin, Lee Marvin, and Stafford Repp in The Twilight Zone (1959)

Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and Strother Martin in Hard Times (1975)

Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne, and Strother Martin in McLintock! (1963)

Strother Martin, Archie Butler, Paul Harper, Bill Hart, L.Q. Jones, and Robert Ryan in The Wild Bunch (1969)

John Wayne, Strother Martin, Sarge Allen, Willis Bouchey, Ken Curtis, Fred Graham, Chuck Hayward, Stan Jones, William Leslie, Judson Pratt, Denver Pyle, Walter Reed, O.Z. Whitehead, Hank Worden, and Carleton Young in The Horse Soldiers (1959)

Strother Martin, Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, and Elizabeth Ashley in Botas Duras, Medias De Seda (1976)

Strother Martin and Elizabeth Ashley in Botas Duras, Medias De Seda (1976)

Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, and Strother Martin in Hannie Caulder (1971)

James Stewart, Strother Martin, Lee Marvin, and Lee Van Cleef in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Paul Newman, Strother Martin, and Robert Donner in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, and Joy Harmon in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Strother Martin, Desi Arnaz Jr., and Catherine Burns in Red Sky at Morning (1971)

Strother Martin in The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)

Strother Martin in Rooster Cogburn (1975)

Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, and Strother Martin in Hannie Caulder (1971)

American character actor who achieved considerable fame in the last decade of his life. A native of Kokomo, Indiana, Strother Martin Jr. was the youngest of three children of Strother Douglas Martin, a machinist, and Ethel Dunlap Martin. His family moved soon after his birth to San Antonio, Texas, but quickly returned to Indiana. Strother Jr. grew up in Indianapolis and in Cloverdale, Indiana. He excelled at swimming and diving, and at 17 won the National Junior Springboard Diving Championship. He attended the University of Michigan as diving team member. He served in the U.S. Navy as a swimming instructor in World War II. Nicknamed "T-Bone" Martin for his diving style, his 3rd place finish in the adult National Springboard Diving Championships cost him a place on the 1948 Olympic team. He moved to California to become an actor, but worked in odd jobs and as a swimming instructor to Marion Davies and the children of Charles Chaplin. He found work as a swimming extra in several films and as a leprechaun on a local children's TV show, "Mabel's Fables." Bit parts came his way, leading to television work with Sam Peckinpah, which led to a lifelong relationship. He also found memorable roles for John Ford and by the 1960s was a familiar face in American movies. With Cool Hand Luke (1967) in 1967 came new acclaim and a place among the busiest character actors in Hollywood. He worked steadily and in substantial roles throughout the 1970s and seemed at the peak of his career when he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1980.

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