Birthday:
Nov 04, 1919
Place of Birth: Bronx, New York, USA
Place of Birth: Bronx, New York, USA
Martin Balsam
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | O.J. Berman | 1961 |
| All the President's Men | Howard Simons | 1976 |
| Psycho | Private Det. Milton Arbogast | 1960 |
| The Brother from Space | Frather Howard | 1988 |
| Catch-22 | Col. Cathcart | 1970 |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Signor Bianchi | 1974 |
| The Silence of the Hams | Det. Martin Balsam | 1994 |
| The Hassled Hooker | District Attorney Turrisi | 1972 |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | Admiral Husband E. Kimmel | 1970 |
| Little Big Man | Mr. Merriweather | 1970 |
| Cape Fear | Police Chief Mark Dutton | 1962 |
| St. Elmo's Fire | Mr. Beamish | 1985 |
| Two-Minute Warning | Sam McKeever | 1976 |
| Seven Days in May | Paul Girard | 1964 |
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Green | 1974 |
| Harlow | Everett Redman | 1965 |
| The Anderson Tapes | Haskins | 1971 |
| Death Wish 3 | Bennett Cross | 1985 |
| Mitchell | James Arthur Cummings | 1975 |
| The Stone Killer | Al Vescari | 1973 |
| Winterset | Garth | 1959 |
| The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979 |
| Hombre | Henry Mendez | 1967 |
| Two Evil Eyes | Mr. Pym | 1990 |
| A Thousand Clowns | Arnold | 1965 |
| The Carpetbaggers | Bernard B. Norman | 1964 |
| Al Capone | Mac Keeley, reporter | 1959 |
| Silver Bears | Joe Fiore | 1977 |
| Cuba | Gen. Bello | 1979 |
| The Delta Force | Ben Kaplan | 1986 |
| Winged Victory | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1944 |
| Time Limit | Sgt. Baker | 1957 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | Dr. Rudy Wells | 1973 |
| Everybody Go Home! | Sergente Quintino Fornaciari | 1960 |
| The Bedford Incident | Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N. | 1965 |
| The Sentinel | Prof. Ruzinsky | 1977 |
| After the Fox | Harry | 1966 |
| 24 Hour Psycho | Milton Arbogast (archive footage) | 1993 |
| The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | Mayor Wilker | 1969 |
| Eyes Behind the Stars | Inspector Jim Grant | 1978 |
| Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Harry Walden | 1973 |
| Cry, Onion! | Petrus Lamb | 1975 |
| The Love Tapes | David Franklin | 1980 |
| P.I. Private Investigations | Cliff Dowling | 1987 |
| The Seeding of Sarah Burns | Dr. Samuel Melman | 1979 |
| Middle of the Night | Jack | 1959 |
| Blood and Diamonds | Rizzo | 1978 |
| Season For Assassins | Commissioner Katroni | 1975 |
| Contract on Cherry Street | Ernie Weinberg | 1977 |
| Miles To Go Before I Sleep | Ben Montgomery | 1975 |
| Death Rage | Commissario | 1976 |
| The Salamander | Captain Steffanelli | 1981 |
| Meet Him and Die | Giulianelli | 1976 |
| Confessions of a Police Captain | Commissario Bonavia | 1971 |
| Ada | Steve Jackson | 1961 |
| Me, Natalie | Uncle Harold | 1969 |
| Siege | Henry Fancher | 1978 |
| The Last Match | Lawyer | 1990 |
| Gardenia | Salluzzo | 1979 |
| Trilogy | Ivor Belli | 1969 |
| The Man | Jim Talley | 1972 |
| Murder in Space | Alexander Rostov | 1985 |
| The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Stanley Pulska | 1970 |
| Cape Fear | Judge | 1991 |
| Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? | Sanford Kaufman | 1963 |
| A Brand New Life | Jim Douglas | 1973 |
| On the Waterfront | Gillette (uncredited) | 1954 |
| A Man Is Ten Feet Tall | Charlie Malick | 1955 |
| Rainbow | Louis B. Mayer | 1978 |
| Aunt Mary | Harry Strasberg | 1979 |
| The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Edward J. Reilly | 1976 |
| People vs. Jean Harris | Joel Aurnou | 1981 |
| Second Serve | Dr. Beck | 1986 |
| Brothers in Blood | 1987 | |
| Bomber's Moon | Captain Joe Reardon | 1958 |
| Conquered City | Joseph Feinberg | 1962 |
| Hunters Are for Killing | Wade Hamilton | 1970 |
| Counselor at Crime | Don Antonio Macaluso | 1973 |
| Night of Terror | Capt. Caleb Sark | 1972 |
| Smiling Maniacs | Carlo Goja | 1975 |
| Chronicle of a Homicide | Giudice Aldo Sola | 1972 |
| The Warning | Questore Martorana | 1980 |
| Trapped Beneath the Sea | T.C. Hollister | 1974 |
| The Millionaire | Arthur Haines | 1978 |
| The Sands of Time | Father Sorendo | 1992 |
| The Living Bible | Townsman | 1952 |
| Unknown Soldier | Priest | 1995 |
| Marjorie Morningstar | Dr. David Harris | 1958 |
| The Storyteller | Ira Davidoff | 1977 |
| There Goes The Bride | Elmer Babcock | 1980 |
| The Goodbye People | Max Silverman | 1984 |
| Innocent Prey | Sheriff Virgil Baker | 1984 |
| The House on Garibaldi Street | Isser Harel | 1979 |
| Queenie | Marty | 1987 |
| Legend of the Spirit Dog | Gramps | 1997 |
| La colonna infame | 1973 | |
| Kids Like These | Grandpa | 1987 |
| O. Henry's Christmas | 1996 | |
| The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War | Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage) | 1973 |
| Raid on Entebbe | Daniel Cooper | 1976 |
| Around the World of Mike Todd | Michael Todd (voice) | 1968 |
| La Classe américaine | Callaghan (archive footage) | 1993 |
| 12 Angry Men | Juror 1 | 1957 |
| The Child Saver | Sidney Rosenberg | 1988 |
| I Want to Live | Jack Brady | 1983 |
| The Enemy Before Us | Angie | 1970 |
| Concerning a Woman of Sin | 1949 | |
| The Defender (Studio One) | Francis Toohey | 1957 |
| Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Murder, She Wrote | Edgar Carmody | 1984 |
| Cain's Hundred | Jack Garsell | 1961 |
| The Twilight Zone | Rockne S. O'Bannon | 1985 |
| Route 66 | 1960 | |
| Midnight Caller | Gil Solarski | 1988 |
| Naked City | Arnold Fleischman | 1958 |
| Hotel | 1982 | |
| Kojak | Ray Kaufman | 1973 |
| Studio One | Ed Coyne | 1948 |
| Archie Bunker's Place | 1979 | |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Garth | 1951 |
| The Twilight Zone | Danny Weiss | 1959 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Eldon Marsh | 1955 |
| Target: The Corruptors! | 1961 | |
| Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | 1958 | |
| The Eleventh Hour | 1962 | |
| Rawhide | Father Fabian | 1959 |
| Have Gun, Will Travel | 1957 | |
| Police Story | 1973 | |
| The Fugitive | Andrew Newmark | 1963 |
| The Octopus | Frank Carrisi | 1984 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | 1948 | |
| Decoy | Nick Santos | 1957 |
| The New Breed | Frank Eberhardt | 1961 |
| CBS Playhouse | 1966 | |
| Inner Sanctum | 1954 | |
| Dr. Kildare | Ned Lacey | 1961 |
| The Defenders | Floyd Harker | 1961 |
| The Defenders | Bernard Maxwell | 1961 |
| The Defenders | District Attorney | 1961 |
| The Twilight Zone | Prof. Donald Knowles | 1985 |
| The Living Christ | Townsman | 1951 |
| The Greatest Gift | 1954 | |
| Valiant Lady | 1953 | |
| Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Sam Butler | 1956 |
| Naked City | Caldwell Wyatt | 1958 |
| Naked City | Joseph Creeley | 1958 |
| Naked City | Captain Russel Barris | 1958 |
| Actors Studio | soldier | 1948 |
| Dr. Kildare | Benny Orloff | 1961 |
| Dr. Kildare | Dr. Milton Orloff | 1961 |
| Dr. Kildare | Dr. Carl Noyes | 1961 |
| Tony Awards | Self - Winner | 1956 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
| Oceano | Don Matias Quintero | 1989 |
| Space | Senator Glancey | 1985 |
| The Name of the Game | Herb Witmer | 1968 |
| Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Nathan Burkan | 1982 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Leonard Thompson | 1955 |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Strasberg | 1951 |
| Arrest and Trial | Leo Valera | 1963 |
| 12 O'Clock High | Army Doctor (uncredited) | 1964 |
| Studio One | Francis Toohey | 1948 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | Mike Galloway | 1948 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | Charlie Malick | 1948 |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Dave Breslaw | 1963 |
| Great Performances | Jack | 1971 |
| Quincy, M.E. | Hyam Zgierski | 1976 |
