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Strother Martin
26 March 1919
Strother Martin played in 15 movies in the Crime, Mystery, Drama, Adventure, Western, Music, Action, Comedy, Romance, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Sport, Music, Biography genres.
Strother Martin got succeed with average imdb rating 6.9.
Bitten by a snake during filming of Sssssss (1973)
Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Court of Remembrance, #G62420.
Did an chapter of the "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961) called "Baby Five-by-five" in which he portrayed a playwright based on Tennessee Williams in 1965. Fifteen years later while hosting "Saturday Incessantly Red-hot" (1975), he admitted during the monologue that because of that share, many times he was actually misinformed for the prominent dramaturgist.
... Frequently cast alongside Paul Newman, in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Slap Shot (1977) and some others.
Frequently co-starred with L.Q. Jones, who in real life was song of his closest friends.
No relation to Dewey Martin although erroneously claimed as such in some sources.
Interviewed in "Bad at the Bijou" by William R. Horner (McFarland, 1982).
Strother Martin collaborated with crony and filmmaker J.D. Feigelson on dialog in the screenplay for cult film "Dark Incessantly of the Scarecrow." Feigelson was publication the the film to star Strother, but in the future it could be attack for moving picture he passed away. Actor Charles Durning replaced Martin in the lead role of Otis P. Hazelrigg. Lone of illustrious lines in the haziness was Strother Martin's contribution: "He's thirty-three years old, Mrs. Ritter, he's physically fully developed.".
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