For character actor Strother Martin, 1969— the year he turned 50-- was a banner year when it came to Westerns. He was in three big ones.
He was a harried businessman, gulled by a 14-year-old girl in the John Wayne Oscar winning vehicle True Grit (Martin was in six movies with The Duke). Martin played a degenerate, low-life bounty hunter in Sam Peckinpah’s classic The Wild Bunch. And to wrap things up, he was an eccentric—er, “colorful”—South American mine operator who hired Butch
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