Martin Balsam
Age: N/A | From: Bronx, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Martin Henry Balsam
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Bronx, New York, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 87
TV Involvements: 39
Most Famous Work
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).
Most Famous Work
Naked City
(1958) Captain Russel Barris
Rawhide
(1959) Father Fabian
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1948) Charlie Malick
Dr. Kildare
(1961) Dr. Carl Noyes
Murder, She Wrote
(1984) Edgar Carmody
The Name of the Game
(1968) Herb Witmer
The Twilight Zone
(1959) Danny Weiss
Studio One
(1948) Francis TooheyActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Gramps | |
| 1996 | N/A | |
| 1995 | Priest | |
| 1994 | Det. Martin Balsam | |
| 1993 | Callaghan (archive footage) | |
| Milton Arbogast (archive footage) | ||
| 1992 | Father Sorendo | |
| 1991 | Judge | |
| 1990 | Lawyer | |
| Mr. Pym | ||
| 1989 | Don Matias Quintero | |
| Sheriff Virgil Baker | ||
| 1988 | Gil Solarski | |
| Sidney Rosenberg | ||
| Frather Howard | ||
| 1987 | Grandpa | |
| Cliff Dowling | ||
| N/A | ||
| Marty | ||
| Wade Hamilton | ||
| 1986 | Ben Kaplan | |
| Max Silverman | ||
| Dr. Beck | ||
| 1985 | Bennett Cross | |
| Rockne S. O'Bannon | ||
| Prof. Donald Knowles | ||
| Alexander Rostov | ||
| Mr. Beamish | ||
| Senator Glancey | ||
| 1984 | Edgar Carmody | |
| Frank Carrisi | ||
| 1983 | Jack Brady | |
| 1982 | Nathan Burkan | |
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| 1981 | Joel Aurnou | |
| Captain Steffanelli | ||
| 1980 | Questore Martorana | |
| Elmer Babcock | ||
| David Franklin | ||
| 1979 | Gen. Bello | |
| Harry Strasberg | ||
| N/A | ||
| Isser Harel | ||
| Salluzzo | ||
| Dr. Samuel Melman | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1978 | Arthur Haines | |
| Louis B. Mayer | ||
| Henry Fancher | ||
| Rizzo | ||
| Inspector Jim Grant | ||
| 1977 | Ira Davidoff | |
| Ernie Weinberg | ||
| Joe Fiore | ||
| Prof. Ruzinsky | ||
| 1976 | Daniel Cooper | |
| Sam McKeever | ||
| Commissario | ||
| Giulianelli | ||
| N/A | ||
| Howard Simons | ||
| Edward J. Reilly | ||
| 1975 | Commissioner Katroni | |
| James Arthur Cummings | ||
| Petrus Lamb | ||
| Carlo Goja | ||
| Ben Montgomery | ||
| 1974 | Signor Bianchi | |
| T.C. Hollister | ||
| Green | ||
| 1973 | Ray Kaufman | |
| Harry Walden | ||
| Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage) | ||
| Don Antonio Macaluso | ||
| Al Vescari | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Rudy Wells | ||
| Jim Douglas | ||
| 1972 | Capt. Caleb Sark | |
| Jim Talley | ||
| District Attorney Turrisi | ||
| Giudice Aldo Sola | ||
| 1971 | Haskins | |
| Commissario Bonavia | ||
| Jack | ||
| 1970 | Mr. Merriweather | |
| Angie | ||
| Stanley Pulska | ||
| Col. Cathcart | ||
| Admiral Husband E. Kimmel | ||
| 1969 | Mayor Wilker | |
| Uncle Harold | ||
| Ivor Belli | ||
| 1968 | Herb Witmer | |
| Michael Todd (voice) | ||
| 1967 | Henry Mendez | |
| 1966 | N/A | |
| Harry | ||
| 1965 | Arnold | |
| Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N. | ||
| Everett Redman | ||
| 1964 | Bernard B. Norman | |
| Paul Girard | ||
| 1963 | Sanford Kaufman | |
| N/A | ||
| Andrew Newmark | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | Joseph Feinberg | |
| N/A | ||
| Police Chief Mark Dutton | ||
| 1961 | O.J. Berman | |
| Frank Eberhardt | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ned Lacey | ||
| Benny Orloff | ||
| Dr. Milton Orloff | ||
| Dr. Carl Noyes | ||
| Jack Garsell | ||
| Floyd Harker | ||
| Bernard Maxwell | ||
| District Attorney | ||
| Steve Jackson | ||
| 1960 | Sergente Quintino Fornaciari | |
| N/A | ||
| Private Det. Milton Arbogast | ||
| 1959 | Garth | |
| Danny Weiss | ||
| Jack | ||
| Mac Keeley, reporter | ||
| Father Fabian | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| Arnold Fleischman | ||
| Caldwell Wyatt | ||
| Joseph Creeley | ||
| Captain Russel Barris | ||
| Captain Joe Reardon | ||
| Dr. David Harris | ||
| 1957 | Sgt. Baker | |
| Nick Santos | ||
| N/A | ||
| Juror 1 | ||
| Francis Toohey | ||
| 1956 | Sam Butler | |
| Self - Winner | ||
| 1955 | Eldon Marsh | |
| Leonard Thompson | ||
| Charlie Malick | ||
| 1954 | N/A | |
| Gillette (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1953 | N/A | |
| 1951 | Garth | |
| Strasberg | ||
| Townsman | ||
| 1949 | N/A | |
| 1948 | Ed Coyne | |
| Francis Toohey | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mike Galloway | ||
| Charlie Malick | ||
| soldier | ||
| Self - live scenes from 'Middle of the Night' | ||
| 1944 | Bit Part (uncredited) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
