Hilarious Strother Martin true story

[Wyatt Burp]

Here's a true story of my favorite character actor, the late Strother Martin. A guy everyone here knows except maybe his name. He always put a slightly weird twist on his characters making them memorable. He could be cultured and articulate like in True Grit or a drygulchin' dirtbag in The Wild Bunch. This very funny story by his agent might explain everything.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fqjkXX6esY[/ame]

 

[Onomea]

That’s pretty funny!

 

[Doug627]

He stole every scene he was ever in.

 

[Eric300]

I just saw him the other day while watching 'The Sons of Katie Elder'. Great character that doesn't get the recognition he deserves....kind of like the same with Bruce Dern.

 

[Rudi]

Yep, he brought a lot to the films he was in.

 

[Sevens]

I only knew him from Slapshot and he was great in that role!

 

[UncleEd]

He said he conceived his characters
on Gunsmoke as being "prairie scum."

 

[Rustyt1953]

I'm gonna need a moment here.

 

[rwsmith]

He was a little......

...like Dennis Hopper. Any movie could benefit from having him in it in any part. Big or small.

 

[WardenRoss]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj60OAh7O5U[/ame]

 

[Wrangler Rich]

Butch and Sundance: I'm working with morons, we're not going to be robbed going down the mountain. We got no money going down the mountain.......

 

[Ogandydancer]

Strother was always one of my favorites. I first realized who he was when he played T T Flowers in Rockford files. He was a great actor and I always thought he was never given enough credit.

 

[SPEEDGUNNER]

Another classic from Cool Hand Luke...Man gets rabbit in his blood:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xJk2vxi1wI[/ame]

 

[Wyatt Burp]

He was also real good in the Charles Bronson/James Coburn 1930s bareknuckle fighter movie “Hard Times”. Martin played the drug addicted doctor who teams up with them. He made bad movies good and good movies great.

 

[Smoke]

I never thought of him as a character actor.