Martin Balsam
Acting
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).
Born: November 4, 1919
Place of Birth: Bronx, New York, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Gramps
as Priest
as Det. Martin Balsam
as Callaghan (archive footage)
as Milton Arbogast (archive footage)
as Father Sorendo
as Judge
as Lawyer
as Mr. Pym
as Don Matias Quintero
as Gil Solarski
as Sidney Rosenberg
as Frather Howard
as Grandpa
as Cliff Dowling
as Ben Kaplan
as Dr. Beck
as Bennett Cross
as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
as Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")
as Alexander Rostov
as Mr. Beamish
as Senator Glancey
as Sheriff Virgil Baker
as Edgar Carmody
as Max Silverman
as Frank Carrisi
as Jack Brady
as Nathan Burkan
as Self
as Joel Aurnou
as Captain Steffanelli
as Questore Martorana
as Elmer Babcock
as David Franklin
as Gen. Bello
as Harry Strasberg
as Isser Harel
as Salluzzo
as Dr. Samuel Melman
as (archive footage)
as Arthur Haines
as Louis B. Mayer
as Henry Fancher
as Rizzo
as Inspector Jim Grant
as Ira Davidoff
as Ernie Weinberg
as Joe Fiore
as Prof. Ruzinsky
as Daniel Cooper
as Sam McKeever
as Commissario
as Giulianelli
as Hyam Zgierski
as Howard Simons
as Edward J. Reilly
as Commissioner Katroni
as James Arthur Cummings
as Petrus Lamb
as Carlo Goja
as Ben Montgomery
as Signor Bianchi
as T.C. Hollister
as Ray Kaufman
as Harry Walden
as Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage)
as Don Antonio Macaluso
as Al Vescari
as Dr. Rudy Wells
as Jim Douglas
as Capt. Caleb Sark
as Jim Talley
as District Attorney Turrisi
as Giudice Aldo Sola
as Haskins
as Commissario Bonavia
as Jack
as Mr. Merriweather
as Stanley Pulska
as Col. Cathcart
as Wade Hamilton
as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
as Mayor Wilker
as Uncle Harold
as Ivor Belli
as Herb Witmer
as Michael Todd (voice)
as Henry Mendez
as Harry
as Arnold
as Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.
as Everett Redman
as Albert Sully
as Army Doctor (uncredited)
as Bernard B. Norman
as Paul Girard
as Sanford Kaufman
as Andrew Newmark
as Leo Valera
as Joseph Feinberg
as Police Chief Mark Dutton
as Self
as O.J. Berman
as Frank Eberhardt
as Ned Lacey
as Benny Orloff
as Dr. Milton Orloff
as Dr. Carl Noyes
as Jack Garsell
as Floyd Harker
as Bernard Maxwell
as District Attorney
as Steve Jackson
as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari
as Private Det. Milton Arbogast
as Danny Weiss
as Jack
as Mac Keeley, reporter
as Father Fabian
as Arnold Fleischman
as Caldwell Wyatt
as Captain Russel Barris
as Joseph Creeley
as Captain Joe Reardon
as Dr. David Harris
as Sgt. Baker
as Nick Santos
as Juror 1
as Francis Toohey
as Sam Butler
as Self - Winner
as Eldon Marsh
as Leonard Thompson
as Charlie Malick
as Gillette (uncredited)
as Townsman
as Garth
as Strasberg
as Townsman
as Ed Coyne
as Francis Toohey
as Mike Galloway
as Charlie Malick
as Self
as Bit Part (uncredited)
as Dr. Arnold Gillespie