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Martin Balsam

Martin Henry Balsam 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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Bronx, New York, USA, 1919-11-04

Died: 1996-02-13

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Winged Victory	Bit Part (uncredited)	55
2	1949	Concerning a Woman of Sin		0
3	1952	The Living Bible	Townsman	60
4	1954	On the Waterfront	Gillette (uncredited)	79
5	1955	A Man Is Ten Feet Tall	Charlie Malick	0
6	1957	The Defender (Studio One)	Francis Toohey	72
7	1957	12 Angry Men	Juror 1	85
8	1957	Time Limit	Sgt. Baker	70
9	1958	Marjorie Morningstar	Dr. David Harris	62
10	1958	Bomber's Moon	Captain Joe Reardon	0
11	1959	Al Capone	Mac Keeley, reporter	66
12	1959	Middle of the Night	Jack	70
13	1959	Winterset	Garth	0
14	1960	Psycho	Private Det. Milton Arbogast	84
15	1960	Everybody Go Home!	Sergente Quintino Fornaciari	76
16	1961	Ada	Steve Jackson	64
17	1961	Breakfast at Tiffany's	O.J. Berman	76
18	1962	Cape Fear	Police Chief Mark Dutton	74
19	1962	Conquered City	Joseph Feinberg	43
20	1963	Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?	Sanford Kaufman	58
21	1964	Seven Days in May	Paul Girard	73
22	1964	The Carpetbaggers	Bernard B. Norman	58
23	1965	Harlow	Everett Redman	54
24	1965	The Bedford Incident	Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.	69
25	1965	A Thousand Clowns	Arnold	71
26	1966	After the Fox	Harry	60
27	1967	Hombre	Henry Mendez	71
28	1968	Around the World of Mike Todd	Michael Todd (voice)	60
29	1969	Trilogy	Ivor Belli	60
30	1969	Me, Natalie	Uncle Harold	56
31	1969	The Good Guys and the Bad Guys	Mayor Wilker	55
32	1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Admiral Husband E. Kimmel	71
33	1970	Hunters Are for Killing	Wade Hamilton	45
34	1970	Catch-22	Col. Cathcart	67
35	1970	The Old Man Who Cried Wolf	Stanley Pulska	60
36	1970	The Enemy Before Us	Angie	0
37	1970	Little Big Man	Mr. Merriweather	75
38	1971	Confessions of a Police Captain	Commissario Bonavia	68
39	1971	The Anderson Tapes	Haskins	62
40	1972	Chronicle of a Homicide	Giudice Aldo Sola	56
41	1972	The Hassled Hooker	District Attorney Turrisi	66
42	1972	The Man	Jim Talley	63
43	1972	Night of Terror	Capt. Caleb Sark	57
44	1973	A Brand New Life	Jim Douglas	0
45	1973	The Six Million Dollar Man	Dr. Rudy Wells	67
46	1973	La colonna infame		60
47	1973	The Stone Killer	Al Vescari	62
48	1973	Counselor at Crime	Don Antonio Macaluso	56
49	1973	The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War	Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage)	65
50	1973	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams	Harry Walden	56
51	1974	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three	Green	75
52	1974	Trapped Beneath the Sea	T.C. Hollister	58
53	1974	Murder on the Orient Express	Signor Bianchi	71
54	1975	Miles To Go Before I Sleep	Ben Montgomery	60
55	1975	Smiling Maniacs	Carlo Goja	0
56	1975	Cry, Onion!	Petrus Lamb	52
57	1975	Mitchell	James Arthur Cummings	32
58	1975	Season For Assassins	Commissioner Katroni	47
59	1976	The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case	Edward J. Reilly	64
60	1976	All the President's Men	Howard Simons	77
61	1976	Meet Him and Die	Giulianelli	54
62	1976	Death Rage	Commissario	55
63	1976	Two-Minute Warning	Sam McKeever	62
64	1976	Raid on Entebbe	Daniel Cooper	60
65	1977	The Sentinel	Prof. Ruzinsky	61
66	1977	Silver Bears	Joe Fiore	59
67	1977	Contract on Cherry Street	Ernie Weinberg	63
68	1977	The Storyteller	Ira Davidoff	0
69	1978	Eyes Behind the Stars	Inspector Jim Grant	43
70	1978	Blood and Diamonds	Rizzo	64
71	1978	Siege	Henry Fancher	62
72	1978	Rainbow	Louis B. Mayer	0
73	1978	The Millionaire	Arthur Haines	0
74	1979	The Horror Show	(archive footage)	38
75	1979	The Seeding of Sarah Burns	Dr. Samuel Melman	60
76	1979	Gardenia	Salluzzo	48
77	1979	The House on Garibaldi Street	Isser Harel	55
78	1979	Aunt Mary	Harry Strasberg	80
79	1979	Cuba	Gen. Bello	55
80	1980	The Love Tapes	David Franklin	30
81	1980	There Goes The Bride	Elmer Babcock	0
82	1980	The Warning	Questore Martorana	54
83	1981	The Salamander	Captain Steffanelli	55
84	1981	People vs. Jean Harris	Joel Aurnou	0
85	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
86	1983	I Want to Live	Jack Brady	40
87	1984	The Goodbye People	Max Silverman	0
88	1984	Innocent Prey	Sheriff Virgil Baker	40
89	1985	St. Elmo's Fire	Mr. Beamish	61
90	1985	Murder in Space	Alexander Rostov	48
91	1985	Death Wish 3	Bennett Cross	62
92	1986	Second Serve	Dr. Beck	54
93	1986	The Delta Force	Ben Kaplan	60
94	1987	Brothers in Blood		50
95	1987	P.I. Private Investigations	Cliff Dowling	48
96	1987	Kids Like These	Grandpa	100
97	1987	Once Again	Gerald	0
98	1988	The Brother from Space	Frather Howard	25
99	1988	The Child Saver	Sidney Rosenberg	0
100	1990	Two Evil Eyes	Mr. Pym	61
101	1990	The Last Match	Lawyer	50
102	1991	Cape Fear	Judge	73
103	1992	The Sands of Time	Father Sorendo	0
104	1993	24 Hour Psycho	Milton Arbogast (archive footage)	40
105	1993	La Classe américaine	Callaghan (archive footage)	76
106	1994	The Silence of the Hams	Det. Martin Balsam	49
107	1995	Unknown Soldier	Priest	60
108	1996	O. Henry's Christmas		0
109	1997	Legend of the Spirit Dog	Gramps	45
110	2000	All About 'The Birds'	Self (archive footage)	72
111		The Time Element	Dr. Arnold Gillespie	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	Actors Studio	soldier	67
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
4	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Mike Galloway	63
5	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Charlie Malick	63
6	1948	Studio One	Ed Coyne	50
7	1948	Studio One	Francis Toohey	50
8	1951	The Living Christ	Townsman	50
9	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Garth	86
10	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Strasberg	86
11	1953	Valiant Lady		30
12	1954	Inner Sanctum		70
13	1954	The Greatest Gift		0
14	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Eldon Marsh	77
15	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Leonard Thompson	77
16	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
17	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sam Butler	55
18	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
19	1957	Decoy	Nick Santos	62
20	1958	Naked City	Arnold Fleischman	55
21	1958	Naked City	Caldwell Wyatt	55
22	1958	Naked City	Joseph Creeley	55
23	1958	Naked City	Captain Russel Barris	55
24	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		58
25	1959	Rawhide	Father Fabian	72
26	1959	The Twilight Zone	Danny Weiss	85
27	1960	Route 66		63
28	1961	The Defenders	Floyd Harker	62
29	1961	The Defenders	Bernard Maxwell	62
30	1961	The Defenders	District Attorney	62
31	1961	Cain's Hundred	Jack Garsell	47
32	1961	Dr. Kildare	Ned Lacey	55
33	1961	Dr. Kildare	Benny Orloff	55
34	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Milton Orloff	55
35	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Carl Noyes	55
36	1961	Target: The Corruptors!		35
37	1961	The New Breed	Frank Eberhardt	70
38	1962	The Eleventh Hour		60
39	1963	Arrest and Trial	Leo Valera	77
40	1963	The Fugitive	Andrew Newmark	72
41	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Dave Breslaw	57
42	1964	12 O'Clock High	Army Doctor (uncredited)	73
43	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
44	1968	The Name of the Game	Herb Witmer	68
45	1971	Great Performances	Jack	53
46	1973	Police Story		69
47	1973	Kojak	Ray Kaufman	70
48	1976	Quincy, M.E.	Hyam Zgierski	75
49	1979	Archie Bunker's Place		65
50	1982	Hotel		68
51	1982	Little Gloria... Happy at Last	Nathan Burkan	68
52	1984	The Octopus	Frank Carrisi	79
53	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Edgar Carmody	75
54	1985	Space	Senator Glancey	65
55	1985	The Twilight Zone	Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")	78
56	1985	The Twilight Zone	Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")	78
57	1988	Midnight Caller	Gil Solarski	76
58	1989	Oceano	Don Matias Quintero	50