Strother Douglas Martin Jr

 Strother Douglas Martin Jr. (March 26, 1919 – August 1, 1980)

He was a 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. "The line is number 11 on the American Film Institute list of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. In the 1950's, he earned bit roles in a number of pictures and soon gained frequent character roles in films and television, having appeared in such programs as the western anthology series, Frontier on NBC and the syndicated American Civil War drama Gray Ghost. Martin made many guest appearances on Gunsmoke, including the two-part episode "Island in the Desert," in which he portrayed a crazy desert hermit named Ben Snow. He also made many guest appearances on Perry Mason throughout the nine-year run from 1957–1966. In 1966, he guest-starred in the Lost In Space episode "Blast Off Into Space" as a gritty mining engineer. On a Gilligan's Island episode, Martin played a man living supposedly alone on the island for a radio show contest. One of his last acting jobs was as host of Saturday Night Live on April 19, 1980. Martin was married to Helen Meisels-Martin from 1967 until his death. In the last year of his life Martin had been under doctor's care for cardiac problems and he died of a heart attack on August 1, 1980, at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, he was 61. Martin is interred at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills.