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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

167

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-11-04

Deathday

1996-02-13 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

Bronx, New York, USA

Also Known As

Martin Henry Balsam
Мартин Болсам

Martin Balsam

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).

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Acting

2000

All About 'The Birds' as Self (archive footage)

1997

Legend of the Spirit Dog as Gramps

1996

O. Henry's Christmas

1995

Unknown Soldier as Priest

1994

The Silence of the Hams as Det. Martin Balsam

1993		La Classe américaine as Callaghan (archive footage)
1993		24 Hour Psycho as Milton Arbogast (archive footage)

1992

The Sands of Time as Father Sorendo

1991

Cape Fear as Judge

1990		The Last Match as Lawyer
1990		Two Evil Eyes as Mr. Pym

1989

Oceano as Don Matias Quintero

1988		Midnight Caller as Gil Solarski
1988		The Child Saver as Sidney Rosenberg
1988		The Brother from Space as Frather Howard

1987		Kids Like These as Grandpa
1987		P.I. Private Investigations as Cliff Dowling
1987		Brothers in Blood

1986		The Delta Force as Ben Kaplan
1986		Second Serve as Dr. Beck

1985		Death Wish 3 as Bennett Cross
1985		The Twilight Zone as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
1985		The Twilight Zone as Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")
1985		Murder in Space as Alexander Rostov
1985		St. Elmo's Fire as Mr. Beamish
1985		Space as Senator Glancey

1984		Innocent Prey as Sheriff Virgil Baker
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Edgar Carmody
1984		The Goodbye People as Max Silverman
1984		The Octopus as Frank Carrisi

1983

I Want to Live as Jack Brady

1982		Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Nathan Burkan
1982		Hotel
1982		Night of 100 Stars as Self

1981		People vs. Jean Harris as Joel Aurnou
1981		The Salamander as Captain Steffanelli

1980		The Warning as Questore Martorana
1980		There Goes The Bride as Elmer Babcock
1980		The Love Tapes as David Franklin

1979		Cuba as Gen. Bello
1979		Aunt Mary as Harry Strasberg
1979		Archie Bunker's Place
1979		The House on Garibaldi Street as Isser Harel
1979		Gardenia as Salluzzo
1979		The Seeding of Sarah Burns as Dr. Samuel Melman
1979		The Horror Show as (archive footage)

1978		The Millionaire as Arthur Haines
1978		Rainbow as Louis B. Mayer
1978		Siege as Henry Fancher
1978		Blood and Diamonds as Rizzo
1978		Eyes Behind the Stars as Inspector Jim Grant

1977		The Storyteller as Ira Davidoff
1977		Contract on Cherry Street as Ernie Weinberg
1977		Silver Bears as Joe Fiore
1977		The Sentinel as Prof. Ruzinsky

1976		Raid on Entebbe as Daniel Cooper
1976		Two-Minute Warning as Sam McKeever
1976		Death Rage as Commissario
1976		Meet Him and Die as Giulianelli
1976		Quincy, M.E. as Hyam Zgierski
1976		All the President's Men as Howard Simons
1976		The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Edward J. Reilly

1975		Season For Assassins as Commissioner Katroni
1975		Mitchell as James Arthur Cummings
1975		Cry, Onion! as Petrus Lamb
1975		Smiling Maniacs as Carlo Goja
1975		Miles To Go Before I Sleep as Ben Montgomery

1974		Murder on the Orient Express as Signor Bianchi
1974		Trapped Beneath the Sea as T.C. Hollister
1974		The Taking of Pelham One Two Three as Green

1973		Kojak as Ray Kaufman
1973		Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Harry Walden
1973		The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War as Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage)
1973		Counselor at Crime as Don Antonio Macaluso
1973		The Stone Killer as Al Vescari
1973		La colonna infame
1973		Police Story
1973		The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Rudy Wells
1973		A Brand New Life as Jim Douglas

1972		Night of Terror as Capt. Caleb Sark
1972		The Man as Jim Talley
1972		The Hassled Hooker as District Attorney Turrisi
1972		Chronicle of a Homicide as Giudice Aldo Sola

1971		The Anderson Tapes as Haskins
1971		Confessions of a Police Captain as Commissario Bonavia
1971		Great Performances as Jack

1970		Little Big Man as Mr. Merriweather
1970		The Enemy Before Us as Angie
1970		The Old Man Who Cried Wolf as Stanley Pulska
1970		Catch-22 as Col. Cathcart
1970		Hunters Are for Killing as Wade Hamilton
1970		Tora! Tora! Tora! as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

1969		The Good Guys and the Bad Guys as Mayor Wilker
1969		Me, Natalie as Uncle Harold
1969		Trilogy as Ivor Belli

1968		The Name of the Game as Herb Witmer
1968		Around the World of Mike Todd as Michael Todd (voice)

1967

Hombre as Henry Mendez

1966		CBS Playhouse
1966		After the Fox as Harry

1965		A Thousand Clowns as Arnold
1965		The Bedford Incident as Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.
1965		Harlow as Everett Redman

1964		12 O'Clock High as Army Doctor (uncredited)
1964		The Carpetbaggers as Bernard B. Norman
1964		Seven Days in May as Paul Girard

1963		Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? as Sanford Kaufman
1963		Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Dave Breslaw
1963		The Fugitive as Andrew Newmark
1963		Arrest and Trial as Leo Valera

1962		Conquered City as Joseph Feinberg
1962		The Eleventh Hour
1962		Cape Fear as Police Chief Mark Dutton

1961		Breakfast at Tiffany's as O.J. Berman
1961		The New Breed as Frank Eberhardt
1961		Target: The Corruptors!
1961		Dr. Kildare as Ned Lacey
1961		Dr. Kildare as Benny Orloff
1961		Dr. Kildare as Dr. Milton Orloff
1961		Dr. Kildare as Dr. Carl Noyes
1961		Cain's Hundred as Jack Garsell
1961		The Defenders as Floyd Harker
1961		The Defenders as Bernard Maxwell
1961		The Defenders as District Attorney
1961		Ada as Steve Jackson

1960		Everybody Go Home! as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari
1960		Route 66
1960		Psycho as Private Det. Milton Arbogast

1959		Winterset as Garth
1959		The Twilight Zone as Danny Weiss
1959		Middle of the Night as Jack
1959		Al Capone as Mac Keeley, reporter
1959		Rawhide as Father Fabian

1958		Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958		Naked City as Arnold Fleischman
1958		Naked City as Caldwell Wyatt
1958		Naked City as Captain Russel Barris
1958		Naked City as Joseph Creeley
1958		Bomber's Moon as Captain Joe Reardon
1958		Marjorie Morningstar as Dr. David Harris

1957		Time Limit as Sgt. Baker
1957		Decoy as Nick Santos
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel
1957		12 Angry Men as Juror 1
1957		The Defender (Studio One) as Francis Toohey

1956		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sam Butler
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Winner

1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Eldon Marsh
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Leonard Thompson
1955		A Man Is Ten Feet Tall as Charlie Malick

1954		The Greatest Gift
1954		On the Waterfront as Gillette (uncredited)
1954		Inner Sanctum

1953

Valiant Lady

1952

The Living Bible as Townsman

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Garth
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Strasberg
1951		The Living Christ as Townsman

1949

Concerning a Woman of Sin

1948		Studio One as Ed Coyne
1948		Studio One as Francis Toohey
1948		The Philco Television Playhouse
1948		The Philco Television Playhouse as Mike Galloway
1948		The Philco Television Playhouse as Charlie Malick
1948		Actors Studio as soldier
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1944

Winged Victory as Bit Part (uncredited)