Martin Balsam

Martin Balsam

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

04/11/1919

Day of Death

13/02/1996
(77) years old

Place of Birth

Bronx, New York, USA

Biography

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 ... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2000

All About 'The Birds'

as Self (archive footage)

1995

Unknown Soldier

as Priest

1994

The Silence of the Hams

as Det. Martin Balsam

1993

La Classe américaine

as Callaghan (archive footage)

1993

24 Hour Psycho

as Milton Arbogast (archive footage)

1992

The Sands of Time

as Father Sorendo

1991

Cape Fear

as Judge

1990

The Last Match

as Lawyer

1990

Two Evil Eyes

as Mr. Pym

1988

The Child Saver

as Sidney Rosenberg

1988

The Brother from Space

as Frather Howard

1987

Once Again

as Gerald

1987

Kids Like These

as Grandpa

1987

P.I. Private Investigations

as Cliff Dowling

1986

The Delta Force

as Ben Kaplan

1986

Second Serve

as Dr. Beck

1985

Death Wish 3

as Bennett Cross

1985

Murder in Space

as Alexander Rostov

1985

St. Elmo's Fire

as Mr. Beamish

1984

Innocent Prey

as Sheriff Virgil Baker

1984

The Goodbye People

as Max Silverman

1983

I Want to Live

as Jack Brady

1981

People vs. Jean Harris

as Joel Aurnou

1981

The Salamander

as Captain Steffanelli

1980

The Warning

as Questore Martorana

1980

There Goes The Bride

as Elmer Babcock

1980

The Love Tapes

as David Franklin

1979

Cuba

as Gen. Bello

1979

Aunt Mary

as Harry Strasberg

1979

Gardenia

as Salluzzo

1979

The Seeding of Sarah Burns

as Dr. Samuel Melman

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1978

The Millionaire

as Arthur Haines

1978

Rainbow

as Louis B. Mayer

1978

Siege

as Henry Fancher

1978

Blood and Diamonds

as Rizzo

1978

Eyes Behind the Stars

as Inspector Jim Grant

1977

The Storyteller

as Ira Davidoff

1977

Contract on Cherry Street

as Ernie Weinberg

1977

Silver Bears

as Joe Fiore

1977

The Sentinel

as Prof. Ruzinsky

1976

Raid on Entebbe

as Daniel Cooper

1976

Two-Minute Warning

as Sam McKeever

1976

Death Rage

as Commissario

1976

Meet Him and Die

as Giulianelli

1976

All the President's Men

as Howard Simons

1976

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

as Edward J. Reilly

1975

Season For Assassins

as Commissioner Katroni

1975

Mitchell

as James Arthur Cummings

1975

Cry, Onion!

as Petrus Lamb

1975

Smiling Maniacs

as Carlo Goja

1975

Miles To Go Before I Sleep

as Ben Montgomery

1974

Murder on the Orient Express

as Signor Bianchi

1974

Trapped Beneath the Sea

as T.C. Hollister

1973

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

as Harry Walden

1973

The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women ...

as Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive foo...

1973

Counselor at Crime

as Don Antonio Macaluso

1973

The Stone Killer

as Al Vescari

1973

The Six Million Dollar Man

as Dr. Rudy Wells

1973

A Brand New Life

as Jim Douglas

1972

Night of Terror

as Capt. Caleb Sark

1972

The Man

as Jim Talley

1972

The Hassled Hooker

as District Attorney Turrisi

1972

Chronicle of a Homicide

as Giudice Aldo Sola

1971

The Anderson Tapes

as Haskins

1971

Confessions of a Police Captain

as Commissario Bonavia

1970

Little Big Man

as Mr. Merriweather

1970

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

as Stanley Pulska

1970

Catch-22

as Col. Cathcart

1970

Hunters Are for Killing

as Wade Hamilton

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

1969

Me, Natalie

as Uncle Harold

1969

Trilogy

as Ivor Belli

1968

Around the World of Mike Todd

as Michael Todd (voice)

1967

Hombre

as Henry Mendez

1966

After the Fox

as Harry

1965

A Thousand Clowns

as Arnold

1965

The Bedford Incident

as Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N.

1965

Harlow

as Everett Redman

1964

The Carpetbaggers

as Bernard B. Norman

1964

Seven Days in May

as Paul Girard

1963

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

as Sanford Kaufman

1962

Conquered City

as Joseph Feinberg

1962

Cape Fear

as Police Chief Mark Dutton

1961

Breakfast at Tiffany's

as O.J. Berman

1961

Ada

as Steve Jackson

1960

Everybody Go Home!

as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari

1960

Psycho

as Private Det. Milton Arbogast

1959

Winterset

as Garth

1959

Al Capone

as Mac Keeley, reporter

1958

Bomber's Moon

as Captain Joe Reardon

1958

Marjorie Morningstar

as Dr. David Harris

1957

Time Limit

as Sgt. Baker

1957

12 Angry Men

as Juror 1

1957

The Defender (Studio One)

as Francis Toohey

1955

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

as Charlie Malick

1954

On the Waterfront

as Gillette (uncredited)

1952

The Living Bible

as Townsman

1944

Winged Victory

as Bit Part (uncredited)