
Martin Balsam
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 4, 1919
- Died
- February 13, 1996 (aged 76)
- Birthplace
- 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).
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Filmography

The Time Element
Movie · as Dr. Arnold Gillespie

True Fear: The Making of Psycho
Movie · as Self

All About 'The Birds'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Legend of the Spirit Dog
Movie · as Gramps

O. Henry's Christmas
Movie

Unknown Soldier
Movie · as Priest

The Silence of the Hams
Movie · as Det. Martin Balsam

La Classe américaine
Movie · as Callaghan (archive footage)

The Sands of Time
Movie · as Father Sorendo

Cape Fear
Movie · as Judge

Two Evil Eyes
Movie · as Mr. Pym

The Last Match
Movie · as Lawyer

Oceano
TV · as Don Matias Quintero · 6 eps

The Brother from Space
Movie · as Frather Howard

The Child Saver
Movie · as Sidney Rosenberg

Midnight Caller
TV · as Gil Solarski · 1 ep

P.I. Private Investigations
Movie · as Cliff Dowling

Brothers in Blood
Movie

Kids Like These
Movie · as Grandpa

Once Again
Movie · as Gerald

The Delta Force
Movie · as Ben Kaplan

Second Serve
Movie · as Dr. Beck

Whatever it Takes
Movie · as Hap Perchicksky

St. Elmo's Fire
Movie · as Mr. Beamish

Death Wish 3
Movie · as Bennett Cross

Murder in Space
Movie · as Alexander Rostov

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

Space
TV · as Senator Glancey · 5 eps

The Goodbye People
Movie · as Max Silverman

Innocent Prey
Movie · as Sheriff Virgil Baker

Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Edgar Carmody · 2 eps

The Octopus
TV · as Frank Carrisi · 2 eps

I Want to Live
Movie · as Jack Brady

Night of 100 Stars
Movie · as Self

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Movie · as Self

Hotel
TV · 1 ep

Little Gloria... Happy at Last
TV · as Nathan Burkan · 2 eps

The Salamander
Movie · as Captain Steffanelli

People vs. Jean Harris
Movie · as Joel Aurnou

The Love Tapes
Movie · as David Franklin

The Warning
Movie · as Questore Martorana

There Goes The Bride
Movie · as Elmer Babcock

The Horror Show
Movie · as (archive footage)

Cuba
Movie · as Gen. Bello

The Seeding of Sarah Burns
Movie · as Dr. Samuel Melman

Gardenia
Movie · as Salluzzo

Aunt Mary
Movie · as Harry Strasberg

The House on Garibaldi Street
Movie · as Isser Harel

All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Movie · as Self

Archie Bunker's Place
TV · as Murray Klein · 45 eps

Eyes Behind the Stars
Movie · as Inspector Jim Grant

Blood and Diamonds
Movie · as Rizzo

Siege
Movie · as Henry Fancher

Rainbow
Movie · as Louis B. Mayer

The Millionaire
Movie · as Arthur Haines

Silver Bears
Movie · as Joe Fiore

The Sentinel
Movie · as Prof. Ruzinsky

Contract on Cherry Street
Movie · as Ernie Weinberg

The Storyteller
Movie · as Ira Davidoff

All the President's Men
Movie · as Howard Simons

Two-Minute Warning
Movie · as Sam McKeever

Death Rage
Movie · as Commissario

Meet Him and Die
Movie · as Giulianelli

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Movie · as Edward J. Reilly

Raid on Entebbe
Movie · as Daniel Cooper

Quincy, M.E.
TV · as Hyam Zgierski · 1 ep

Mitchell
Movie · as James Arthur Cummings

Cry, Onion!
Movie · as Petrus Lamb

Season for Assassins
Movie · as Commissioner Katroni

Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Movie · as Ben Montgomery

Smiling Maniacs
Movie · as Carlo Goja

Death Among Friends
Movie · as Ham Russell Buckner

Murder on the Orient Express
Movie · as Signor Bianchi

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Movie · as Green

Trapped Beneath the Sea
Movie · as T.C. Hollister

The Stone Killer
Movie · as Al Vescari

The Six Million Dollar Man
Movie · as Dr. Rudy Wells

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Movie · as Harry Walden

A Brand New Life
Movie · as Jim Douglas

The Counsellor
Movie · as Don Antonio Macaluso

La colonna infame
Movie

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

Kojak
TV · as Ray Kaufman · 1 ep

Police Story
TV · 1 ep

The Hassled Hooker
Movie · as District Attorney Turrisi

The Man
Movie · as Jim Talley

Night of Terror
Movie · as Capt. Caleb Sark

Chronicle of a Homicide
Movie · as Giudice Aldo Sola

The Anderson Tapes
Movie · as Haskins

Confessions of a Police Captain
Movie · as Commissario Bonavia

Great Performances
TV · as Jack · 1 ep

Catch-22
Movie · as Col. Cathcart

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie · as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

Little Big Man
Movie · as Mr. Merriweather

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Movie · as Stanley Pulska

Hunters Are for Killing
Movie · as Wade Hamilton
The Enemy Before Us
Movie · as Angie

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Movie · as Mayor Wilker

Me, Natalie
Movie · as Uncle Harold

Trilogy
Movie · as Ivor Belli

Around the World of Mike Todd
Movie · as Michael Todd (voice)

The Name of the Game
TV · as Herb Witmer · 1 ep

Hombre
Movie · as Henry Mendez

After the Fox
Movie · as Harry
CBS Playhouse
TV · as Jesse Rothenberg · 1 ep

Harlow
Movie · as Everett Redman

A Thousand Clowns
Movie · as Arnold

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

Seven Days in May
Movie · as Paul Girard

The Carpetbaggers
Movie · as Bernard B. Norman

12 O'Clock High
TV · as Army Doctor (uncredited) · 1 ep

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Albert Sully · 1 ep

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

The Fugitive
TV · as Andrew Newmark · 1 ep

Arrest and Trial
TV · as Leo Valera · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · as Dave Breslaw · 1 ep

Espionage
TV · as Richard Carey · 1 ep

Cape Fear
Movie · as Police Chief Mark Dutton

Conquered City
Movie · as Joseph Feinberg

The Eleventh Hour
TV · 1 ep

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Movie · as O.J. Berman

Ada
Movie · as Steve Jackson

Cain's Hundred
TV · as Jack Garsell · 1 ep

Target: The Corruptors!
TV · 1 ep

The New Breed
TV · as Frank Eberhardt · 1 ep

Dr. Kildare
TV · as Ned Lacey, Benny Orloff, Dr. Milton Orloff, Dr. Carl Noyes · 1 ep

The Defenders
TV · as Floyd Harker, Bernard Maxwell, District Attorney · 1 ep

The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Psycho
Movie · as Milton Arbogast

Everybody Go Home!
Movie · as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari

Route 66
TV · 2 eps
Winterset
Movie · as Garth

Al Capone
Movie · as Mac Keeley, reporter

Middle of the Night
Movie · as Jack Englander

The Twilight Zone
TV · as Danny Weiss, Martin Lombard Senescu · 1 ep

Rawhide
TV · as Father Fabian · 1 ep

The Untouchables
TV · as Arnold Justin · 1 ep

Bomber's Moon
Movie · as Captain Joe Reardon

Marjorie Morningstar
Movie · as Dr. David Harris

Naked City
TV · as Arnold Fleischman, Joseph Creeley, Captain Russel Barris, Caldwell Wyatt · 1 ep

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV · 2 eps

Time Limit
Movie · as Sgt. Baker

12 Angry Men
Movie · as Juror 1

The Defender (Studio One)
Movie · as Francis Toohey

Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · as Marshal Jim Brock · 1 ep

Decoy
TV · as Nick Santos · 1 ep

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Sam Butler · 1 ep

Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Winner · 1 ep

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
Movie · as Charlie Malick

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Eldon Marsh, Leonard Thompson · 1 ep

On the Waterfront
Movie · as Gillette (uncredited)

Inner Sanctum
TV · 3 eps
The Greatest Gift
TV · 218 eps
Valiant Lady
TV · 272 eps

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Garth, Strasberg · 1 ep

The Living Christ
TV · as Townsman · 1 ep

Concerning a Woman of Sin
Movie

Studio One
TV · as Ed Coyne, Francis Toohey · 1 ep

The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · as Mike Galloway, Charlie Malick · 1 ep
Actors Studio
TV · as soldier · 1 ep

The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Winged Victory
Movie · as Bit Part (uncredited)






