Martin Balsam

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-11-04 (77 years old)

Deathday

1996-02-13

Place of Birth

Bronx, New York, USA

Martin Balsam

Biography

Martin Henry Balsam 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).

Acting

1961

1976

All the President's Men

as Howard Simons

1960

Psycho

as Private Det. Milton Arbogast

1988

The Brother from Space

as Frather Howard

1970

Catch-22

as Col. Cathcart

1974

1994

The Silence of the Hams

as Det. Martin Balsam

1972

The Hassled Hooker

as District Attorney Turrisi

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

1970

Little Big Man

as Mr. Merriweather

1962

Cape Fear

as Police Chief Mark Dutton

1985

St. Elmo's Fire

as Mr. Beamish

1976

Two-Minute Warning

as Sam McKeever

1964

Seven Days in May

as Paul Girard

1965

Harlow

as Everett Redman

1971

1985

Death Wish 3

as Bennett Cross

1975

Mitchell

as James Arthur Cummings

1973

The Stone Killer

as Al Vescari

1959

Winterset

as Garth

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1967

Hombre

as Henry Mendez

1990

Two Evil Eyes

as Mr. Pym

1965

1964

The Carpetbaggers

as Bernard B. Norman

1959

Al Capone

as Mac Keeley, reporter

1977

Silver Bears

as Joe Fiore

1979

Cuba

as Gen. Bello

1986

The Delta Force

as Ben Kaplan

1944

Winged Victory

as Bit Part (uncredited)

1957

Time Limit

as Sgt. Baker

1973

1960

Everybody Go Home!

as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari

1965

The Bedford Incident

as Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.

1977

The Sentinel

as Prof. Ruzinsky

1966

1993

24 Hour Psycho

as Milton Arbogast (archive footage)

1978

Eyes Behind the Stars

as Inspector Jim Grant

1973

1975

Cry, Onion!

as Petrus Lamb

1980

The Love Tapes

as David Franklin

1987

1979

The Seeding of Sarah Burns

as Dr. Samuel Melman

1978

1975

Season For Assassins

as Commissioner Katroni

1977

Contract on Cherry Street

as Ernie Weinberg

1975

1976

Death Rage

as Commissario

1981

The Salamander

as Captain Steffanelli

1976

Meet Him and Die

as Giulianelli

1971

Confessions of a Police Captain

as Commissario Bonavia

1961

Ada

as Steve Jackson

1969

Me, Natalie

as Uncle Harold

1978

Siege

as Henry Fancher

1990

1979

Gardenia

as Salluzzo

1969

Trilogy

as Ivor Belli

1972

The Man

as Jim Talley

1985

Murder in Space

as Alexander Rostov

1970

1991

Cape Fear

as Judge

1963

1973

A Brand New Life

as Jim Douglas

1954

On the Waterfront

as Gillette (uncredited)

1955

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

as Charlie Malick

1978

Rainbow

as Louis B. Mayer

1979

Aunt Mary

as Harry Strasberg

1976

1981

1986

Second Serve

as Dr. Beck

1958

Bomber's Moon

as Captain Joe Reardon

1962

Conquered City

as Joseph Feinberg

1970

Hunters Are for Killing

as Wade Hamilton

1973

Counselor at Crime

as Don Antonio Macaluso

1972

Night of Terror

as Capt. Caleb Sark

1975

Smiling Maniacs

as Carlo Goja

1972

Chronicle of a Homicide

as Giudice Aldo Sola

1980

The Warning

as Questore Martorana

1974

Trapped Beneath the Sea

as T.C. Hollister

1978

The Millionaire

as Arthur Haines

1992

The Sands of Time

as Father Sorendo

1952

The Living Bible

as Townsman

1995

1958

Marjorie Morningstar

as Dr. David Harris

1977

The Storyteller

as Ira Davidoff

1980

There Goes The Bride

as Elmer Babcock

1984

The Goodbye People

as Max Silverman

1984

Innocent Prey

as Sheriff Virgil Baker

1987

Kids Like These

as Grandpa

1973

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

as Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage)

1976

Raid on Entebbe

as Daniel Cooper

1968

Around the World of Mike Todd

as Michael Todd (voice)

1993

La Classe américaine

as Callaghan (archive footage)

1957

12 Angry Men

as Juror 1

1988

The Child Saver

as Sidney Rosenberg

1983

I Want to Live

as Jack Brady

1957

The Defender (Studio One)

as Francis Toohey

2000

All About 'The Birds'

as Self (archive footage)

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The Time Element

as Dr. Arnold Gillespie

1987

Once Again

as Gerald

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