Martin Balsam
Born: 1919-11-04 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1996-02-13
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2015
- True Fear: The Making of Psycho as Self
2000
- All About 'The Birds' as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Legend of the Spirit Dog as Gramps
1996
1995
- Unknown Soldier as Priest
1994
- The Silence of the Hams as Det. Martin Balsam
1993
- La Classe américaine as Callaghan (archive footage)
1992
- The Sands of Time as Father Sorendo
1991
- Cape Fear as Judge
1990
- Two Evil Eyes as Mr. Pym
- The Last Match as Lawyer
1989
- Oceano as Don Matias Quintero
1988
- Midnight Caller as Gil Solarski
- The Brother from Space as Frather Howard
- The Child Saver as Sidney Rosenberg
1987
- P.I. Private Investigations as Cliff Dowling
- Kids Like These as Grandpa
- Brothers in Blood
- Once Again as Gerald
1986
- The Delta Force as Ben Kaplan
- Second Serve as Dr. Beck
- Whatever it Takes as Hap Perchicksky
1985
- The Twilight Zone as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
- St. Elmo's Fire as Mr. Beamish
- Death Wish 3 as Bennett Cross
- Space as Senator Glancey
- Murder in Space as Alexander Rostov
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Edgar Carmody
- The Octopus as Frank Carrisi
- Innocent Prey as Sheriff Virgil Baker
- The Goodbye People as Max Silverman
1983
- I Want to Live as Jack Brady
1982
- Hotel
- Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Nathan Burkan
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady as Self
1981
- People vs. Jean Harris as Joel Aurnou
- The Salamander as Captain Steffanelli
1980
- There Goes The Bride as Elmer Babcock
- The Love Tapes as David Franklin
- The Warning as Questore Martorana
1979
- Archie Bunker's Place as Murray Klein
- Cuba as Gen. Bello
- Aunt Mary as Harry Strasberg
- All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman as Self
- The Seeding of Sarah Burns as Dr. Samuel Melman
- The House on Garibaldi Street as Isser Harel
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- Gardenia as Salluzzo
1978
- Blood and Diamonds as Rizzo
- The Millionaire as Arthur Haines
- Eyes Behind the Stars as Inspector Jim Grant
- Rainbow as Louis B. Mayer
- Siege as Henry Fancher
1977
- The Sentinel as Prof. Ruzinsky
- Silver Bears as Joe Fiore
- Contract on Cherry Street as Ernie Weinberg
- The Storyteller as Ira Davidoff
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Hyam Zgierski
- All the President's Men as Howard Simons
- Two-Minute Warning as Sam McKeever
- Raid on Entebbe as Daniel Cooper
- Death Rage as Commissario
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Edward J. Reilly
- Meet Him and Die as Giulianelli
1975
- Cry, Onion! as Petrus Lamb
- Season for Assassins as Commissioner Katroni
- Miles To Go Before I Sleep as Ben Montgomery
- Mitchell as James Arthur Cummings
- Smiling Maniacs as Carlo Goja
- Death Among Friends as Ham Russell Buckner
1974
- Murder on the Orient Express as Signor Bianchi
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three as Green
- Trapped Beneath the Sea as T.C. Hollister
1973
- Kojak as Ray Kaufman
- Police Story
- The Stone Killer as Al Vescari
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Rudy Wells
- A Brand New Life as Jim Douglas
- The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War as Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage)
- The Counsellor as Don Antonio Macaluso
- Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Harry Walden
- La colonna infame
1972
- The Hassled Hooker as District Attorney Turrisi
- Night of Terror as Capt. Caleb Sark
- Chronicle of a Homicide as Giudice Aldo Sola
- The Man as Jim Talley
1971
- Great Performances as Jack
- The Anderson Tapes as Haskins
- Confessions of a Police Captain as Commissario Bonavia
1970
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
- Catch-22 as Col. Cathcart
- Little Big Man as Mr. Merriweather
- The Old Man Who Cried Wolf as Stanley Pulska
- Hunters Are for Killing as Wade Hamilton
- The Enemy Before Us as Angie
1969
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys as Mayor Wilker
- Me, Natalie as Uncle Harold
- Trilogy as Ivor Belli
1968
- The Name of the Game as Herb Witmer
- Around the World of Mike Todd as Michael Todd (voice)
1967
- Hombre as Henry Mendez
1966
- CBS Playhouse as Jesse Rothenberg
- After the Fox as Harry
1965
- The Bedford Incident as Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.
- A Thousand Clowns as Arnold
- Harlow as Everett Redman
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Albert Sully
- 12 O'Clock High as Army Doctor (uncredited)
- Seven Days in May as Paul Girard
- The Carpetbaggers as Bernard B. Norman
1963
- The Fugitive as Andrew Newmark
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Dave Breslaw
- Arrest and Trial as Leo Valera
- Espionage as Richard Carey
- Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? as Sanford Kaufman
1962
- The Eleventh Hour
- Cape Fear as Police Chief Mark Dutton
- Conquered City as Joseph Feinberg
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Ned Lacey
- The Defenders as Floyd Harker
- The New Breed as Frank Eberhardt
- Target: The Corruptors!
- Cain's Hundred as Jack Garsell
- Breakfast at Tiffany's as O.J. Berman
- Ada as Steve Jackson
- Tippi Hedren's Screen Test for The Birds as Self
1960
- Route 66
- Psycho as Milton Arbogast
- Everybody Go Home! as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Danny Weiss
- Rawhide as Father Fabian
- The Untouchables as Arnold Justin
- Middle of the Night as Jack Englander
- Al Capone as Mac Keeley, reporter
- Winterset as Garth
1958
- Naked City as Arnold Fleischman
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Marjorie Morningstar as Dr. David Harris
- Bomber's Moon as Captain Joe Reardon
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- 12 Angry Men as Juror 1
- Decoy as Nick Santos
- The Defender (Studio One) as Francis Toohey
- Time Limit as Sgt. Baker
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Winner
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sam Butler
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Eldon Marsh
- A Man Is Ten Feet Tall as Charlie Malick
1954
- The Greatest Gift
- Inner Sanctum
- On the Waterfront as Gillette (uncredited)
1953
1952
- The Living Bible as Townsman
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Garth
- The Living Christ as Townsman
1948
- Studio One as Ed Coyne
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Actors Studio as soldier
1944
- Winged Victory as Bit Part (uncredited)