Birthday
1919/11/04
Day of death
1996/02/13 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Bronx, New York, USA
Also know as
Martin Henry Balsam, Мартин Болсам
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).
(1961) Breakfast at Tiffany's
as O.J. Berman
(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) Murder on the Orient Express
as Signor Bianchi
(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
(1974) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
as Green
(1965) Harlow
as Everett Redman
(1971) The Anderson Tapes
as Haskins
(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) A Thousand Clowns
as Arnold
(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) The Six Million Dollar Man
as Dr. Rudy Wells
(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) After the Fox
as Harry
(1993) 24 Hour Psycho
as Milton Arbogast (archive footage)
(1969) The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
as Mayor Wilker
(1978) Eyes Behind the Stars
as Inspector Jim Grant
(1973) Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
as Harry Walden
(1975) Cry, Onion!
as Petrus Lamb
(1980) The Love Tapes
as David Franklin
(1987) P.I. Private Investigations
as Cliff Dowling
(1979) The Seeding of Sarah Burns
as Dr. Samuel Melman
(1959) Middle of the Night
as Jack
(1978) Blood and Diamonds
as Rizzo
(1975) Season For Assassins
as Commissioner Katroni
(1977) Contract on Cherry Street
as Ernie Weinberg
(1975) Miles To Go Before I Sleep
as Ben Montgomery
(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) The Last Match
as Lawyer
(1979) Gardenia
as Salluzzo
(1969) Trilogy
as Ivor Belli
(1972) The Man
as Jim Talley
(1985) Murder in Space
as Alexander Rostov
(1970) The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
as Stanley Pulska
(1991) Cape Fear
as Judge
(1963) Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
as Sanford Kaufman
(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) The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
as Edward J. Reilly
(1981) People vs. Jean Harris
as Joel Aurnou
(1986) Second Serve
as Dr. Beck
(1987) Brothers in Blood
as ---
(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) Unknown Soldier
as Priest
(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
(1979) The House on Garibaldi Street
as Isser Harel
(1997) Legend of the Spirit Dog
as Gramps
(1973) La colonna infame
as ---
(1987) Kids Like These
as Grandpa
(1996) O. Henry's Christmas
as ---
(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
(1970) The Enemy Before Us
as Angie
(1949) Concerning a Woman of Sin
as ---
(1957) The Defender (Studio One)
as Francis Toohey
(1982) Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Edgar Carmody
(1961) Cain's Hundred
as Jack Garsell
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
(1960) Route 66
as ---
(1988) Midnight Caller
as Gil Solarski
(1958) Naked City
as Arnold Fleischman
(1982) Hotel
as ---
(1973) Kojak
as Ray Kaufman
(1948) Studio One
as Ed Coyne
(1979) Archie Bunker's Place
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Garth
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Danny Weiss
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Eldon Marsh
(1961) Target: The Corruptors!
as ---
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1962) The Eleventh Hour
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Father Fabian
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1963) The Fugitive
as Andrew Newmark
(1984) The Octopus
as Frank Carrisi
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as ---
(1957) Decoy
as Nick Santos
(1961) The New Breed
as Frank Eberhardt
(1966) CBS Playhouse
as ---
(1954) Inner Sanctum
as ---
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Ned Lacey
(1961) The Defenders
as Floyd Harker
(1961) The Defenders
as Bernard Maxwell
(1961) The Defenders
as District Attorney
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")
(1951) The Living Christ
as Townsman
(1954) The Greatest Gift
as ---
(1953) Valiant Lady
as ---
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sam Butler
(1958) Naked City
as Caldwell Wyatt
(1958) Naked City
as Joseph Creeley
(1958) Naked City
as Captain Russel Barris
(1948) Actors Studio
as soldier
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Benny Orloff
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Milton Orloff
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Carl Noyes
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1989) Oceano
as Don Matias Quintero
(1985) Space
as Senator Glancey
(1968) The Name of the Game
as Herb Witmer
(1982) Little Gloria... Happy at Last
as Nathan Burkan
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Leonard Thompson
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Strasberg
(1963) Arrest and Trial
as Leo Valera
(1964) 12 O'Clock High
as Army Doctor (uncredited)
(1948) Studio One
as Francis Toohey
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Mike Galloway
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as Charlie Malick
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Dave Breslaw
(1971) Great Performances
as Jack
(1976) Quincy, M.E.
as Hyam Zgierski