Strother Martin — Actor (25)
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The Texas Ranger (1955) [TV]
The Texas Ranger
actor: Dennis Morgan / Harry Shannon …
A Texas Ranger arrives in town just as the sheriff is being buried. The Ranger is after the Fox Durkin gang. Ranger Jim Harris tries to form a posse but no one wants to go. Finally he receives help from a few men and they start after the gang.
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Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
director: Burt Brinckerhoff actor: Beau Bridges / Julie Harris …
Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a valuable lesson about the spirit of the holiday along the way.
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McLintock! (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
McLintock!
director: Andrew V. McLaglen actor: John Wayne / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Kom til det vilde vesten / McLintock, o Magnífico …
Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
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An Eye for an Eye (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
An Eye for an Eye
director: Michael D. Moore actor: Robert Lansing / Patrick Wayne …
other title: Matarei um por um... na Hora Certa / An Eye for an Eye (film 1966)
A former bounty hunter teams up with a younger one, to track down and kill the wanted gang leader who murdered his wife and little boy.
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The Big Knife (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Big Knife
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Jack Palance / Ida Lupino …
other title: Il grande coltello / A Grande Chantagem …
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.
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Brainstorm (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Brainstorm
director: William Conrad actor: Jeffrey Hunter / Anne Francis …
other title: Un'idea per un delitto / Das teuflische Spiel …
Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
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Hannie Caulder (1971) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Hannie Caulder
director: Burt Kennedy actor: Raquel Welch / Robert Culp …
other title: La Texana e i fratelli Penitenza / In einem Sattel mit dem Tod …
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge.
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Love and Bullets (1979) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Love and Bullets
director: Stuart Rosenberg / John Huston actor: Charles Bronson / Jill Ireland …
other title: Tiro incrociato / Ein Mann räumt auf …
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
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Hard Times (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hard Times
director: Walter Hill actor: Charles Bronson / James Coburn …
other title: L'eroe della strada / The Streetfighter …
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
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Slap Shot (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Slap Shot
director: George Roy Hill actor: Paul Newman / Strother Martin …
other title: Colpo secco / Vale Tudo …
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
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The Magnetic Monster (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Magnetic Monster
director: Curt Siodmak / Herbert L. Strock actor: Richard Carlson / King Donovan …
other title: Il mostro magnetico / El monstruo magnético
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
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World Without End (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
World Without End
director: Edward Bernds actor: Hugh Marlowe / Nancy Gates …
other title: Mondo senza fine / Planet des Grauens …
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Asphalt Jungle
director: John Huston actor: Sterling Hayden / Louis Calhern …
other title: Giungla d'asfalto / Asfaltjunglen …
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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A Star Is Born (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Star Is Born
director: George Cukor actor: Judy Garland / James Mason …
other title: È nata una stella / En stjerne fødes …
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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The Champ (1979) [Movie] TMDB
The Champ
director: Franco Zeffirelli actor: Jon Voight / Faye Dunaway …
other title: Il campione / Der Champ …
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
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Up in Smoke (1978) [Movie] TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Up in Smoke
director: Lou Adler actor: Cheech Marin / Tommy Chong …
other title: Cheech & Chong: Op i røg / E Tudo o Fumo Levou …
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
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Rooster Cogburn (1975) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
Rooster Cogburn
director: Stuart Millar actor: John Wayne / Katharine Hepburn …
other title: Torna El Grinta / Sheriffen og pebermøen …
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
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True Grit (1969) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb NeoDB
True Grit
director: Henry Hathaway actor: John Wayne / Kim Darby …
other title: Il Grinta / De frygtløse …
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.