Martin Balsam

Acting · Born 1919-11-04 in Bronx, 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).

Filmography

• Breakfast at Tiffany's as O.J. Berman
• All the President's Men as Howard Simons
• Psycho as Milton Arbogast
• The Brother from Space as Frather Howard
• Catch-22 as Col. Cathcart
• Murder on the Orient Express as Signor Bianchi
• The Silence of the Hams as Det. Martin Balsam
• The Hassled Hooker as District Attorney Turrisi
• Tora! Tora! Tora! as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
• Little Big Man as Mr. Merriweather