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).
Filmography
Espionage
1963 · 10.0
The Goodbye People
1984 · 10.0
The Sands of Time
1992 · 10.0
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1949 · 10.0
Kids Like These
1987 · 9.0
A Brand New Life
1973 · 9.0
Winterset
1959 · 9.0
The Storyteller
1977 · 9.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8
12 Angry Men
1957 · 8.6
The Twilight Zone
1959 · 8.5
Psycho
1960 · 8.4
Arrest and Trial
1963 · 8.2
The Untouchables
1959 · 8.1
Inner Sanctum
1954 · 8.0
Unknown Soldier
1995 · 8.0
On the Waterfront
1954 · 7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · 7.8
The Octopus
1984 · 7.8
The New Breed
1961 · 7.7
Space
1985 · 7.7
The Twilight Zone
1985 · 7.7
All the President's Men
1976 · 7.7
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961 · 7.6
Midnight Caller
1988 · 7.6
Everybody Go Home!
1960 · 7.6
La Classe américaine
1993 · 7.6
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · 7.5
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · 7.5
Actors Studio
1948 · 7.5
The Child Saver
1988 · 7.5
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974 · 7.5
Little Big Man
1970 · 7.4
Cape Fear
1962 · 7.4
Seven Days in May
1964 · 7.4
Kojak
1973 · 7.3
The Fugitive
1963 · 7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · 7.3
Rawhide
1959 · 7.3
Aunt Mary
1979 · 7.3
Cape Fear
1991 · 7.3
12 O'Clock High
1964 · 7.2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · 7.2
Time Limit
1957 · 7.2
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · 7.2
Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · 7.1
Hombre
1967 · 7.1
The Name of the Game
1968 · 7.0
Police Story
1973 · 7.0
CBS Playhouse
1966 · 7.0
Oceano
1989 · 7.0
Middle of the Night
1959 · 7.0
The Bedford Incident
1965 · 7.0
Smiling Maniacs
1975 · 7.0
There Goes The Bride
1980 · 7.0
Once Again
1987 · 7.0
La colonna infame
1973 · 7.0
Brothers in Blood
1987 · 7.0
A Thousand Clowns
1965 · 6.9
Contract on Cherry Street
1977 · 6.8
Siege
1978 · 6.8
Confessions of a Police Captain
1971 · 6.8
Hotel
1982 · 6.7
Route 66
1960 · 6.7
The Eleventh Hour
1962 · 6.7
The Six Million Dollar Man
1973 · 6.7
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
1973 · 6.7
Catch-22
1970 · 6.7
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · 6.6
Al Capone
1959 · 6.6
Decoy
1957 · 6.5
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976 · 6.5
The House on Garibaldi Street
1979 · 6.5
The Man
1972 · 6.5
Ada
1961 · 6.5
The Love Tapes
1980 · 6.5
Archie Bunker's Place
1979 · 6.4
Blood and Diamonds
1978 · 6.4
Trapped Beneath the Sea
1974 · 6.4
The Defenders
1961 · 6.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958 · 6.3
Two-Minute Warning
1976 · 6.3
The Hassled Hooker
1972 · 6.3
Marjorie Morningstar
1958 · 6.3
Winged Victory
1944 · 6.3
Around the World of Mike Todd
1968 · 6.3
The Stone Killer
1973 · 6.3
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · 6.2
Death Wish 3
1985 · 6.2
Trilogy
1969 · 6.2
The Anderson Tapes
1971 · 6.2
St. Elmo's Fire
1985 · 6.1
Great Performances
1971 · 6.1
The Sentinel
1977 · 6.1
Two Evil Eyes
1990 · 6.1
After the Fox
1966 · 6.1
Silver Bears
1977 · 6.1
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
1963 · 6.1
Gardenia
1979 · 6.1
Conquered City
1962 · 6.0
The Carpetbaggers
1964 · 6.0
Hunters Are for Killing
1970 · 6.0
Legend of the Spirit Dog
1997 · 6.0
The Delta Force
1986 · 6.0
Raid on Entebbe
1976 · 6.0
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · 5.9
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
1982 · 5.8
The Last Match
1990 · 5.8
Dr. Kildare
1961 · 5.7
Naked City
1958 · 5.7
Target: The Corruptors!
1961 · 5.7
The Living Christ
1951 · 5.7
Meet Him and Die
1976 · 5.7
Me, Natalie
1969 · 5.6
Harlow
1965 · 5.6
The Counsellor
1973 · 5.6
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1973 · 5.6
Cuba
1979 · 5.5
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1969 · 5.5
Chronicle of a Homicide
1972 · 5.5
Studio One
1948 · 5.4
The Warning
1980 · 5.4
The Salamander
1981 · 5.3
Death Rage
1976 · 5.3
Cry, Onion!
1975 · 5.3
Second Serve
1986 · 5.3
Murder in Space
1985 · 5.3
Cain's Hundred
1961 · 5.2
Death Among Friends
1975 · 4.9
The Silence of the Hams
1994 · 4.8
I Want to Live
1983 · 4.8
P.I. Private Investigations
1987 · 4.8
Valiant Lady
1953 · 4.7
Eyes Behind the Stars
1978 · 4.7
Innocent Prey
1984 · 4.3
Season for Assassins
1975 · 4.1
The Brother from Space
1988 · 4.0
The Horror Show
1979 · 3.4
Mitchell
1975 · 3.3
The Greatest Gift
1954 · 0.0
People vs. Jean Harris
1981 · 0.0
Whatever it Takes
1986 · 0.0
The Time Element
— · 0.0
The Enemy Before Us
1970 · 0.0