Martin Balsam
- Acting
- November 4, 1919 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
- February 13, 1996
Biography
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American character actor. He is best known for a number of film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns (1965), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Juror #1 in 12 Angry Men (1957), and Mr. Green in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), as well as for his role as Murray Klein in the television sitcom Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983).
Known for
Filmography
- True Fear: The Making of Psycho · Self
- All About 'The Birds' · Self
- Legend of the Spirit Dog · Gramps
- O. Henry's Christmas
- Unknown Soldier · Priest
- The Silence of the Hams · Det. Martin Balsam
- La Classe américaine · Callaghan (archive footage)
- The Sands of Time · Father Sorendo
- Cape Fear · Judge
- The Last Match · Lawyer
- Two Evil Eyes · Mr. Pym
- Oceano · Don Matias Quintero
- Midnight Caller · Gil Solarski
- The Brother from Space · Frather Howard
- The Child Saver · Sidney Rosenberg
- Once Again · Gerald
- Kids Like These · Grandpa
- P.I. Private Investigations · Cliff Dowling
- Brothers in Blood
- Whatever it Takes · Hap Perchicksky
- The Delta Force · Ben Kaplan
- Second Serve · Dr. Beck
- Death Wish 3 · Bennett Cross
- The Twilight Zone · Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons"), Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")
- Murder in Space · Alexander Rostov
- St. Elmo's Fire · Mr. Beamish
- Space · Senator Glancey
- Innocent Prey · Sheriff Virgil Baker
- Murder, She Wrote · Edgar Carmody
- The Goodbye People · Max Silverman
- The Octopus · Frank Carrisi
- I Want to Live · Jack Brady
- Little Gloria... Happy at Last · Nathan Burkan
- Hotel
- Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady · Self
- Night of 100 Stars · Self
- People vs. Jean Harris · Joel Aurnou
- The Salamander · Captain Steffanelli
- The Warning · Questore Martorana
- There Goes The Bride · Elmer Babcock
- The Love Tapes · David Franklin
- Cuba · Gen. Bello
- All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman · Self
- Aunt Mary · Harry Strasberg
- Archie Bunker's Place · Murray Klein
- The House on Garibaldi Street · Isser Harel
- Gardenia · Salluzzo
- The Seeding of Sarah Burns · Dr. Samuel Melman
- The Horror Show · (archive footage)
- The Millionaire · Arthur Haines
- Rainbow · Louis B. Mayer
- Siege · Henry Fancher
- Blood and Diamonds · Rizzo
- Eyes Behind the Stars · Inspector Jim Grant
- The Storyteller · Ira Davidoff
- Contract on Cherry Street · Ernie Weinberg
- Silver Bears · Joe Fiore
- The Sentinel · Prof. Ruzinsky
- Raid on Entebbe · Daniel Cooper
- Two-Minute Warning · Sam McKeever
- Death Rage · Commissario
- Meet Him and Die · Giulianelli
- Quincy, M.E. · Hyam Zgierski
- All the President's Men · Howard Simons
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case · Edward J. Reilly
- Season for Assassins · Commissioner Katroni
- Mitchell · James Arthur Cummings
- Cry, Onion! · Petrus Lamb
- Death Among Friends · Ham Russell Buckner
- Smiling Maniacs · Carlo Goja
- Miles To Go Before I Sleep · Ben Montgomery
- Murder on the Orient Express · Signor Bianchi
- Trapped Beneath the Sea · T.C. Hollister
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three · Green
- Kojak · Ray Kaufman
- Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams · Harry Walden
- The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War · Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage)
- The Counsellor · Don Antonio Macaluso
- The Stone Killer · Al Vescari
- La colonna infame