Martin Balsam
Acting
Born: 1919-11-04 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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).
Known For
Psycho
Milton Arbogast
12 Angry Men
Juror 1
Breakfast at Tiffany's
O.J. Berman
Cape Fear
Judge
All the President's Men
Howard Simons
On the Waterfront
Gillette (uncredited)
Murder on the Orient Express
Signor Bianchi
The Twilight Zone
Danny Weiss
The Twilight Zone
Martin Lombard Senescu
Little Big Man
Mr. Merriweather
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Green
Cape Fear
Police Chief Mark Dutton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
St. Elmo's Fire
Mr. Beamish
The Delta Force
Ben Kaplan
Death Wish 3
Bennett Cross
Murder, She Wrote
Edgar Carmody
Catch-22
Col. Cathcart
Two Evil Eyes
Mr. Pym
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Eldon Marsh
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Leonard Thompson
The Twilight Zone
Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
The Twilight Zone
Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")
Hombre
Henry Mendez
La Classe américaine
Callaghan (archive footage)
The Sentinel
Prof. Ruzinsky
Seven Days in May
Paul Girard
The Silence of the Hams
Det. Martin Balsam
The Anderson Tapes
Haskins
Kojak
Ray Kaufman
The Untouchables
Arnold Justin
Quincy, M.E.
Hyam Zgierski
Everybody Go Home!
Sergente Quintino Fornaciari
Two-Minute Warning
Sam McKeever
The Stone Killer
Al Vescari
The Bedford Incident
Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.
The Six Million Dollar Man
Dr. Rudy Wells
After the Fox
Harry
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Albert Sully
The Octopus
Frank Carrisi