Martin Balsam
Born: 1919-11-04 in Bronx, 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
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)
- 24 Hour Psycho as Milton Arbogast (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 Child Saver as Sidney Rosenberg
- The Brother from Space as Frather Howard
1987
- Once Again as Gerald
- Brothers in Blood
- P.I. Private Investigations as Cliff Dowling
- Kids Like These as Grandpa
1986
- The Delta Force as Ben Kaplan
- Second Serve as Dr. Beck
1985
- The Twilight Zone as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
- Death Wish 3 as Bennett Cross
- Murder in Space as Alexander Rostov
- St. Elmo's Fire as Mr. Beamish
- Space as Senator Glancey
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Edgar Carmody
- The Octopus as Frank Carrisi
- The Goodbye People as Max Silverman
- Innocent Prey as Sheriff Virgil Baker
1983
- I Want to Live as Jack Brady
1982
- Hotel
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Nathan Burkan
1981
- The Salamander as Captain Steffanelli
- People vs. Jean Harris as Joel Aurnou
1980
- The Warning as Questore Martorana
- The Love Tapes as David Franklin
- There Goes The Bride as Elmer Babcock
1979
- Archie Bunker's Place
- Cuba as Gen. Bello
- The Seeding of Sarah Burns as Dr. Samuel Melman
- Aunt Mary as Harry Strasberg
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- The House on Garibaldi Street as Isser Harel
- Gardenia as Salluzzo
- All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman as Self
1978
- Siege as Henry Fancher
- The Millionaire as Arthur Haines
- Blood and Diamonds as Rizzo
- Rainbow as Louis B. Mayer
- Eyes Behind the Stars as Inspector Jim Grant
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
- Raid on Entebbe as Daniel Cooper
- Two-Minute Warning as Sam McKeever
- All the President's Men as Howard Simons
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Edward J. Reilly
- Death Rage as Commissario
- Meet Him and Die as Giulianelli
1975
- Cry, Onion! as Petrus Lamb
- Mitchell as James Arthur Cummings
- Season for Assassins as Commissioner Katroni
- Smiling Maniacs as Carlo Goja
- Death Among Friends as Ham Russell Buckner
- Miles To Go Before I Sleep as Ben Montgomery
1974
- Murder on the Orient Express as Signor Bianchi
- Trapped Beneath the Sea as T.C. Hollister
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three as Green
1973
- Kojak as Ray Kaufman
- Counselor at Crime as Don Antonio Macaluso
- Police Story
- The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War as Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage)
- A Brand New Life as Jim Douglas
- The Stone Killer as Al Vescari
- Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Harry Walden
- La colonna infame
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Rudy Wells
1972
- Night of Terror as Capt. Caleb Sark
- The Man as Jim Talley
- The Hassled Hooker as District Attorney Turrisi
- Chronicle of a Homicide as Giudice Aldo Sola
1971
- Great Performances as Jack
- The Anderson Tapes as Haskins
- Confessions of a Police Captain as Commissario Bonavia
1970
- Catch-22 as Col. Cathcart
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
- Little Big Man as Mr. Merriweather
- The Old Man Who Cried Wolf as Stanley Pulska
- The Enemy Before Us as Angie
- Hunters Are for Killing as Wade Hamilton
1969
- Trilogy as Ivor Belli
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys as Mayor Wilker
- Me, Natalie as Uncle Harold
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
- After the Fox as Harry
1965
- Harlow as Everett Redman
- The Bedford Incident as Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.
- A Thousand Clowns as Arnold
1964
- 12 O'Clock High as Army Doctor (uncredited)
- The Carpetbaggers as Bernard B. Norman
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Albert Sully
- Seven Days in May as Paul Girard
1963
- The Fugitive as Andrew Newmark
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Dave Breslaw
- Arrest and Trial as Leo Valera
- Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? as Sanford Kaufman
1962
- Cape Fear as Police Chief Mark Dutton
- The Eleventh Hour
- Conquered City as Joseph Feinberg
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Ned Lacey
- The Defenders as Floyd Harker
- Breakfast at Tiffany's as O.J. Berman
- Ada as Steve Jackson
- Cain's Hundred as Jack Garsell
- The New Breed as Frank Eberhardt
- Target: The Corruptors!
1960
- Psycho as Private Det. Milton Arbogast
- Route 66
- Everybody Go Home! as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Danny Weiss
- Rawhide as Father Fabian
- Al Capone as Mac Keeley, reporter
- Winterset as Garth
- Middle of the Night as Jack
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
- Time Limit as Sgt. Baker
- Decoy as Nick Santos
- The Defender (Studio One) as Francis Toohey
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
- Inner Sanctum
- On the Waterfront as Gillette (uncredited)
- The Greatest Gift
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)