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Personal Info

Birth date

1919-11-04 (105 Years)

Day of death

1996-02-13

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Bronx, New York, USA

Also known as

Martin Henry Balsam
Мартин Болсам

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).

Filmography

Acting

TBAThe Time Element as Dr. Arnold Gillespie

2000All About 'The Birds' as Self (archive footage)

1997Legend of the Spirit Dog as Gramps

1996O. Henry's Christmas as Unknown

1995Unknown Soldier as Priest

1994The Silence of the Hams as Det. Martin Balsam

1993La Classe américaine as Callaghan (archive footage)

199324 Hour Psycho as Milton Arbogast (archive footage)

1992The Sands of Time as Father Sorendo

1991Cape Fear as Judge

1990The Last Match as Lawyer

1990Two Evil Eyes as Mr. Pym

1989Oceano (6 Episodes) as Don Matias Quintero

1988Midnight Caller (1 Episode) as Gil Solarski

1988The Child Saver as Sidney Rosenberg

1988The Brother from Space as Frather Howard

1987Once Again as Gerald

1987Kids Like These as Grandpa

1987P.I. Private Investigations as Cliff Dowling

1987Brothers in Blood as Unknown

1986The Delta Force as Ben Kaplan

1986Second Serve as Dr. Beck

1985Death Wish 3 as Bennett Cross

1985The Twilight Zone (1, 1 Episode) as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons"), Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")

1985Murder in Space as Alexander Rostov

1985St. Elmo's Fire as Mr. Beamish

1985Space (5 Episodes) as Senator Glancey

1984Innocent Prey as Sheriff Virgil Baker

1984Murder, She Wrote (2 Episodes) as Edgar Carmody

1984The Goodbye People as Max Silverman

1984The Octopus (2 Episodes) as Frank Carrisi

1983I Want to Live as Jack Brady

1982Little Gloria... Happy at Last (2 Episodes) as Nathan Burkan

1982Hotel (1 Episode) as Unknown

1982Night of 100 Stars as Self

1981People vs. Jean Harris as Joel Aurnou

1981The Salamander as Captain Steffanelli

1980The Warning as Questore Martorana

1980There Goes The Bride as Elmer Babcock

1980The Love Tapes as David Franklin

1979Cuba as Gen. Bello

1979Aunt Mary as Harry Strasberg

1979Archie Bunker's Place (74 Episodes) as Unknown

1979The House on Garibaldi Street as Isser Harel

1979Gardenia as Salluzzo

1979The Seeding of Sarah Burns as Dr. Samuel Melman

1979The Horror Show as (archive footage)

1978The Millionaire as Arthur Haines

1978Rainbow as Louis B. Mayer

1978Siege as Henry Fancher

1978Blood and Diamonds as Rizzo

1978Eyes Behind the Stars as Inspector Jim Grant

1977The Storyteller as Ira Davidoff

1977Contract on Cherry Street as Ernie Weinberg

1977Silver Bears as Joe Fiore

1977The Sentinel as Prof. Ruzinsky

1976Raid on Entebbe as Daniel Cooper

1976Two-Minute Warning as Sam McKeever

1976Death Rage as Commissario

1976Meet Him and Die as Giulianelli

1976Quincy, M.E. (1 Episode) as Hyam Zgierski

1976All the President's Men as Howard Simons

1976The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Edward J. Reilly

1975Season For Assassins as Commissioner Katroni

1975Mitchell as James Arthur Cummings

1975Cry, Onion! as Petrus Lamb

1975Smiling Maniacs as Carlo Goja

1975Miles To Go Before I Sleep as Ben Montgomery

1974Murder on the Orient Express as Signor Bianchi

1974Trapped Beneath the Sea as T.C. Hollister

1974The Taking of Pelham One Two Three as Green

1973Kojak (1 Episode) as Ray Kaufman

1973Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Harry Walden

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

1973Counselor at Crime as Don Antonio Macaluso

1973The Stone Killer as Al Vescari

1973La colonna infame as Unknown

1973Police Story (1 Episode) as Unknown

1973The Six Million Dollar Man as Dr. Rudy Wells

1973A Brand New Life as Jim Douglas

1972Night of Terror as Capt. Caleb Sark

1972The Man as Jim Talley

1972The Hassled Hooker as District Attorney Turrisi

1972Chronicle of a Homicide as Giudice Aldo Sola

1971The Anderson Tapes as Haskins

1971Confessions of a Police Captain as Commissario Bonavia

1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as Jack

1970Little Big Man as Mr. Merriweather

1970The Enemy Before Us as Angie

1970The Old Man Who Cried Wolf as Stanley Pulska

1970Catch-22 as Col. Cathcart

1970Hunters Are for Killing as Wade Hamilton

1970Tora! Tora! Tora! as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

1969The Good Guys and the Bad Guys as Mayor Wilker

1969Me, Natalie as Uncle Harold

1969Trilogy as Ivor Belli

1968The Name of the Game (1 Episode) as Herb Witmer

1968Around the World of Mike Todd as Michael Todd (voice)

1967Hombre as Henry Mendez

1966CBS Playhouse (1 Episode) as Unknown

1966After the Fox as Harry

1965A Thousand Clowns as Arnold

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

1965Harlow as Everett Redman

196412 O'Clock High (1 Episode) as Army Doctor (uncredited)

1964The Carpetbaggers as Bernard B. Norman

1964Seven Days in May as Paul Girard

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

1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1 Episode) as Dave Breslaw

1963The Fugitive (1 Episode) as Andrew Newmark

1963Arrest and Trial (1 Episode) as Leo Valera

1962Conquered City as Joseph Feinberg

1962The Eleventh Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown

1962Cape Fear as Police Chief Mark Dutton

1961Breakfast at Tiffany's as O.J. Berman

1961The New Breed (1 Episode) as Frank Eberhardt

1961Target: The Corruptors! (1 Episode) as Unknown

1961Dr. Kildare (1, 1, 3, 2 Episode) as Ned Lacey, Benny Orloff, Dr. Milton Orloff, Dr. Carl Noyes

1961Cain's Hundred (1 Episode) as Jack Garsell

1961The Defenders (1, 1, 2 Episode) as Floyd Harker, Bernard Maxwell, District Attorney

1961Ada as Steve Jackson

1960Everybody Go Home! as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari

1960Route 66 (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1960Psycho as Private Det. Milton Arbogast

1959Winterset as Garth

1959The Twilight Zone (2 Episodes) as Danny Weiss

1959Middle of the Night as Jack

1959Al Capone as Mac Keeley, reporter

1959Rawhide (1 Episode) as Father Fabian

1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1958Naked City (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Arnold Fleischman, Joseph Creeley, Captain Russel Barris, Caldwell Wyatt

1958Bomber's Moon as Captain Joe Reardon

1958Marjorie Morningstar as Dr. David Harris

1957Time Limit as Sgt. Baker

1957Decoy (1 Episode) as Nick Santos

1957Have Gun, Will Travel (2 Episodes) as Unknown

195712 Angry Men as Juror 1

1957The Defender (Studio One) as Francis Toohey

1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1 Episode) as Sam Butler

1956Tony Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Winner

1955A Man Is Ten Feet Tall as Charlie Malick

1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1, 1 Episode) as Eldon Marsh, Leonard Thompson

1954The Greatest Gift (218 Episodes) as Unknown

1954On the Waterfront as Gillette (uncredited)

1954Inner Sanctum (3 Episodes) as Unknown

1953Valiant Lady (272 Episodes) as Unknown

1952The Living Bible as Townsman

1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1, 1 Episode) as Garth, Strasberg

1951The Living Christ (1 Episode) as Townsman

1949Concerning a Woman of Sin as Unknown

1948Studio One (1, 2 Episode) as Ed Coyne, Francis Toohey

1948The Philco Television Playhouse (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Mike Galloway, Charlie Malick

1948Actors Studio (1 Episode) as soldier

1948The Ed Sullivan Show (1 Episode) as Self

1944Winged Victory as Bit Part (uncredited)