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
• Murder on the Orient Express as Signor Bianchi
• Tora! Tora! Tora! as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
• Little Big Man as Mr. Merriweather
• Cape Fear as Police Chief Mark Dutton
• Seven Days in May as Paul Girard
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three as Green
• Hombre as Henry Mendez

TV

• The Twilight Zone as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
• The Twilight Zone as Danny Weiss
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Eldon Marsh
• The Twilight Zone as Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Leonard Thompson
• The Untouchables as Arnold Justin
• The Twilight Zone as Martin Lombard Senescu
• Murder, She Wrote as Edgar Carmody
• Cain's Hundred as Jack Garsell
• Route 66