Martin Balsam
ActingAlso Known As
Martin Henry Balsam, Мартин Болсам
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).
Movies
(113 total)
Psycho
as Milton Arbogast
12 Angry Men
as Juror 1
Breakfast at Tiffany's
as O.J. Berman
Cape Fear
as Judge
All the President's Men
as Howard Simons
On the Waterfront
as Gillette (uncredited)
Murder on the Orient Express
as Signor Bianchi
Little Big Man
as Mr. Merriweather
Cape Fear
as Police Chief Mark Dutton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
St. Elmo's Fire
as Mr. Beamish
The Delta Force
as Ben Kaplan
Death Wish 3
as Bennett Cross
Catch-22
as Col. Cathcart
Two Evil Eyes
as Mr. Pym
La Classe américaine
as Callaghan (archive footage)
Hombre
as Henry Mendez
The Sentinel
as Prof. Ruzinsky
Seven Days in May
as Paul Girard
TV Shows
(62 total)
The Twilight Zone
as Danny Weiss
The Twilight Zone
as Martin Lombard Senescu
Murder, She Wrote
as Edgar Carmody
The Twilight Zone
as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
The Twilight Zone
as Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Eldon Marsh
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Leonard Thompson
Kojak
as Ray Kaufman
The Untouchables
as Arnold Justin
Quincy, M.E.
as Hyam Zgierski
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Albert Sully
The Fugitive
as Andrew Newmark
The Octopus
as Frank Carrisi
Rawhide
as Father Fabian
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Marshal Jim Brock
Midnight Caller
as Gil Solarski
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Great Performances
as Jack