Martin Balsam
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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Acting History
2000
All About 'The Birds' as Self (archive footage)
1997Legend of the Spirit Dog as Gramps
1996O. Henry's Christmas
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 as Don Matias Quintero
1988Midnight Caller 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
1986The Delta Force as Ben Kaplan
1986Second Serve as Dr. Beck
1985Death Wish 3 as Bennett Cross
1985The Twilight Zone as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
1985The Twilight Zone as Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")
1985Murder in Space as Alexander Rostov
1985St. Elmo's Fire as Mr. Beamish
1985Space as Senator Glancey
1984Innocent Prey as Sheriff Virgil Baker
1984Murder, She Wrote as Edgar Carmody
1984The Goodbye People as Max Silverman
1984The Octopus as Frank Carrisi
1983I Want to Live as Jack Brady
1982Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Nathan Burkan
1982Hotel
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
1979All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman as Self
1979Aunt Mary as Harry Strasberg
1979Archie Bunker's Place
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. 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
1975Death Among Friends as Ham Russell Buckner
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 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
1973Police Story
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 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 as Herb Witmer
1968Around the World of Mike Todd as Michael Todd (voice)
1967Hombre as Henry Mendez
1966CBS Playhouse
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
1964The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Albert Sully
196412 O'Clock High 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 as Dave Breslaw
1963The Fugitive as Andrew Newmark
1963Arrest and Trial as Leo Valera
1962Conquered City as Joseph Feinberg
1962The Eleventh Hour
1962Cape Fear as Police Chief Mark Dutton
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961Breakfast at Tiffany's as O.J. Berman
1961The New Breed as Frank Eberhardt
1961Target: The Corruptors!
1961Dr. Kildare as Ned Lacey
1961Dr. Kildare as Benny Orloff
1961Dr. Kildare as Dr. Milton Orloff
1961Dr. Kildare as Dr. Carl Noyes
1961Cain's Hundred as Jack Garsell
1961The Defenders as Floyd Harker
1961The Defenders as Bernard Maxwell
1961The Defenders as District Attorney
1961Ada as Steve Jackson
1960Everybody Go Home! as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari
1960Route 66
1960Psycho as Private Det. Milton Arbogast
1959Winterset as Garth
1959The Twilight Zone as Danny Weiss
1959Middle of the Night as Jack
1959Al Capone as Mac Keeley, reporter
1959Rawhide as Father Fabian
1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958Naked City as Arnold Fleischman
1958Naked City as Caldwell Wyatt
1958Naked City as Joseph Creeley
1958Naked City as Captain Russel Barris
1958Bomber's Moon as Captain Joe Reardon
1958Marjorie Morningstar as Dr. David Harris
1957Time Limit as Sgt. Baker
1957Decoy as Nick Santos
1957Have Gun, Will Travel
1957Have Gun, Will Travel as Marshal Jim Brock
195712 Angry Men as Juror 1
1957The Defender (Studio One) as Francis Toohey
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sam Butler
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Eldon Marsh
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Leonard Thompson
1955A Man Is Ten Feet Tall as Charlie Malick
1954The Greatest Gift
1954On the Waterfront as Gillette (uncredited)
1954Inner Sanctum
1953Valiant Lady
1952The Living Bible as Townsman
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Garth
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Strasberg
1951The Living Christ as Townsman
1949Concerning a Woman of Sin
1948Studio One as Ed Coyne
1948Studio One as Francis Toohey
1948The Philco Television Playhouse
1948The Philco Television Playhouse as Mike Galloway
1948The Philco Television Playhouse as Charlie Malick
1948Actors Studio as soldier
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1944Winged Victory as Bit Part (uncredited)
—The Time Element as Dr. Arnold Gillespie