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).
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Breakfast at Tiffany's
as O.J. Berman
1961
All the President's Men
as Howard Simons
1976
Psycho
as Milton Arbogast
1960
The Brother from Space
as Frather Howard
1988
Catch-22
as Col. Cathcart
1970
Murder on the Orient Express
as Signor Bianchi
1974
The Silence of the Hams
as Det. Martin Balsam
1994
The Hassled Hooker
as District Attorney Turrisi
1972
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
1970
Little Big Man
as Mr. Merriweather
1970
Cape Fear
as Police Chief Mark Dutton
1962
St. Elmo's Fire
as Mr. Beamish
1985
Two-Minute Warning
as Sam McKeever
1976
Seven Days in May
as Paul Girard
1964
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
as Green
1974
Harlow
as Everett Redman
1965
The Anderson Tapes
as Haskins
1971
Death Wish 3
as Bennett Cross
1985
Mitchell
as James Arthur Cummings
1975
The Stone Killer
as Al Vescari
1973
TV Appearances
Murder, She Wrote
as Edgar Carmody
1984
Cain's Hundred
as Jack Garsell
1961
The Twilight Zone
as Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons")
1985
Route 66
1960
Midnight Caller
as Gil Solarski
1988
Naked City
as Arnold Fleischman
1958
Hotel
1982
Kojak
as Ray Kaufman
1973
Studio One
as Ed Coyne
1948
Archie Bunker's Place
as Murray Klein
1979
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Garth
1951
The Twilight Zone
as Danny Weiss
1959