
Martin Balsam
Acting • Born 1919-11-04 – Died 1996-02-13
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
175 credits
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Movie • 1961
O.J. Berman

All the President's Men
Movie • 1976
Howard Simons

Psycho
Movie • 1960
Milton Arbogast

The Brother from Space
Movie • 1988
Frather Howard

Catch-22
Movie • 1970
Col. Cathcart

Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 1974
Signor Bianchi

The Silence of the Hams
Movie • 1994
Det. Martin Balsam

The Hassled Hooker
Movie • 1972
District Attorney Turrisi

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie • 1970
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

Little Big Man
Movie • 1970
Mr. Merriweather

Cape Fear
Movie • 1962
Police Chief Mark Dutton

St. Elmo's Fire
Movie • 1985
Mr. Beamish

Two-Minute Warning
Movie • 1976
Sam McKeever

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Movie • 1974
Green

Seven Days in May
Movie • 1964
Paul Girard

Harlow
Movie • 1965
Everett Redman

The Anderson Tapes
Movie • 1971
Haskins

Death Wish 3
Movie • 1985
Bennett Cross

Mitchell
Movie • 1975
James Arthur Cummings

The Stone Killer
Movie • 1973
Al Vescari

Winterset
Movie • 1959
Garth

The Horror Show
Movie • 1979
(archive footage)

Hombre
Movie • 1967
Henry Mendez

Two Evil Eyes
Movie • 1990
Mr. Pym

A Thousand Clowns
Movie • 1965
Arnold

The Carpetbaggers
Movie • 1964
Bernard B. Norman

Al Capone
Movie • 1959
Mac Keeley, reporter

Silver Bears
Movie • 1977
Joe Fiore

Cuba
Movie • 1979
Gen. Bello

The Delta Force
Movie • 1986
Ben Kaplan

Winged Victory
Movie • 1944
Bit Part (uncredited)

Time Limit
Movie • 1957
Sgt. Baker

The Six Million Dollar Man
Movie • 1973
Dr. Rudy Wells

Everybody Go Home!
Movie • 1960
Sergente Quintino Fornaciari

The Bedford Incident
Movie • 1965
Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.

The Sentinel
Movie • 1977
Prof. Ruzinsky

After the Fox
Movie • 1966
Harry

24 Hour Psycho
Movie • 1993
Milton Arbogast (archive footage)

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Movie • 1969
Mayor Wilker

Eyes Behind the Stars
Movie • 1978
Inspector Jim Grant

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Movie • 1973
Harry Walden

Cry, Onion!
Movie • 1975
Petrus Lamb

The Love Tapes
Movie • 1980
David Franklin

P.I. Private Investigations
Movie • 1987
Cliff Dowling

The Seeding of Sarah Burns
Movie • 1979
Dr. Samuel Melman

Middle of the Night
Movie • 1959
Jack Englander

Blood and Diamonds
Movie • 1978
Rizzo

Season for Assassins
Movie • 1975
Commissioner Katroni

Contract on Cherry Street
Movie • 1977
Ernie Weinberg

Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Movie • 1975
Ben Montgomery

Death Rage
Movie • 1976
Commissario

The Salamander
Movie • 1981
Captain Steffanelli

Meet Him and Die
Movie • 1976
Giulianelli

Confessions of a Police Captain
Movie • 1971
Commissario Bonavia

Ada
Movie • 1961
Steve Jackson

Me, Natalie
Movie • 1969
Uncle Harold

Siege
Movie • 1978
Henry Fancher

The Last Match
Movie • 1990
Lawyer

Gardenia
Movie • 1979
Salluzzo

Trilogy
Movie • 1969
Ivor Belli

The Man
Movie • 1972
Jim Talley

Murder in Space
Movie • 1985
Alexander Rostov

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Movie • 1970
Stanley Pulska

Cape Fear
Movie • 1991
Judge

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
Movie • 1963
Sanford Kaufman

A Brand New Life
Movie • 1973
Jim Douglas

On the Waterfront
Movie • 1954
Gillette (uncredited)

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
Movie • 1955
Charlie Malick

Rainbow
Movie • 1978
Louis B. Mayer

Aunt Mary
Movie • 1979
Harry Strasberg

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Movie • 1976
Edward J. Reilly

People vs. Jean Harris
Movie • 1981
Joel Aurnou

Second Serve
Movie • 1986
Dr. Beck

Brothers in Blood
Movie • 1987

Bomber's Moon
Movie • 1958
Captain Joe Reardon

Conquered City
Movie • 1962
Joseph Feinberg

Hunters Are for Killing
Movie • 1970
Wade Hamilton

Counselor at Crime
Movie • 1973
Don Antonio Macaluso

Night of Terror
Movie • 1972
Capt. Caleb Sark

Smiling Maniacs
Movie • 1975
Carlo Goja

Chronicle of a Homicide
Movie • 1972
Giudice Aldo Sola

The Warning
Movie • 1980
Questore Martorana

Trapped Beneath the Sea
Movie • 1974
T.C. Hollister

The Millionaire
Movie • 1978
Arthur Haines

The Sands of Time
Movie • 1992
Father Sorendo

The Living Bible
Movie • 1952
Townsman

Unknown Soldier
Movie • 1995
Priest

Marjorie Morningstar
Movie • 1958
Dr. David Harris

The Storyteller
Movie • 1977
Ira Davidoff

There Goes The Bride
Movie • 1980
Elmer Babcock

The Goodbye People
Movie • 1984
Max Silverman

Innocent Prey
Movie • 1984
Sheriff Virgil Baker

The House on Garibaldi Street
Movie • 1979
Isser Harel

Legend of the Spirit Dog
Movie • 1997
Gramps

La colonna infame
Movie • 1973

Kids Like These
Movie • 1987
Grandpa

O. Henry's Christmas
Movie • 1996

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
Movie • 1973
Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage)

Raid on Entebbe
Movie • 1976
Daniel Cooper

Around the World of Mike Todd
Movie • 1968
Michael Todd (voice)

La Classe américaine
Movie • 1993
Callaghan (archive footage)

12 Angry Men
Movie • 1957
Juror 1

The Child Saver
Movie • 1988
Sidney Rosenberg

I Want to Live
Movie • 1983
Jack Brady

The Enemy Before Us
Movie • 1970
Angie

Concerning a Woman of Sin
Movie • 1949

The Defender (Studio One)
Movie • 1957
Francis Toohey

Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self

All About 'The Birds'
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)

The Time Element
Movie
Dr. Arnold Gillespie

Once Again
Movie • 1987
Gerald

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Movie • 1979
Self

Death Among Friends
Movie • 1975
Ham Russell Buckner

Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Edgar Carmody

Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Jack Garsell

The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")

Route 66
TV • 1960

Midnight Caller
TV • 1988
Gil Solarski

Naked City
TV • 1958
Arnold Fleischman

Hotel
TV • 1982

Kojak
TV • 1973
Ray Kaufman

Studio One
TV • 1948
Ed Coyne

Archie Bunker's Place
TV • 1979
Murray Klein

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Garth

The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Danny Weiss

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Eldon Marsh

Target: The Corruptors!
TV • 1961

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958

The Eleventh Hour
TV • 1962

Rawhide
TV • 1959
Father Fabian

Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957

Police Story
TV • 1973

The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Andrew Newmark

The Octopus
TV • 1984
Frank Carrisi

The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948

Decoy
TV • 1957
Nick Santos

The New Breed
TV • 1961
Frank Eberhardt

CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966

Inner Sanctum
TV • 1954

Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Ned Lacey

The Defenders
TV • 1961
Floyd Harker

The Defenders
TV • 1961
Bernard Maxwell

The Defenders
TV • 1961
District Attorney

The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")

The Living Christ
TV • 1951
Townsman

The Greatest Gift
TV • 1954

Valiant Lady
TV • 1953

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Sam Butler

Naked City
TV • 1958
Joseph Creeley

Naked City
TV • 1958
Captain Russel Barris

Naked City
TV • 1958
Caldwell Wyatt

Actors Studio
TV • 1948
soldier

Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Benny Orloff

Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Milton Orloff

Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Carl Noyes

The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self

Oceano
TV • 1989
Don Matias Quintero

Space
TV • 1985
Senator Glancey

The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Herb Witmer

Little Gloria... Happy at Last
TV • 1982
Nathan Burkan

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Leonard Thompson

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Strasberg

Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Leo Valera

12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Army Doctor (uncredited)

Studio One
TV • 1948
Francis Toohey

The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Mike Galloway

The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Charlie Malick

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Dave Breslaw

Great Performances
TV • 1971
Jack

Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Hyam Zgierski

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Albert Sully

The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self

Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Marshal Jim Brock

The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Arnold Justin

The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Martin Lombard Senescu