1919–1996 · Acting
66.4avg grm
22titles
#2best rank
3honors
best title · #2 on site12 Angry Men1957 · as Juror 189.8Honors
31968Tony Award — Best Actor in a Play
1964National Board of Review Award — Best Supporting Actor
1966Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor
Bio
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
ranked on this site2020s1 title
B
Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail2024 · as Det. Milton Arbogast in Psycho58.01990s1 title
C
Cape Fear1991 · as Judge69.71970s8 titles
A
Archie Bunker's Place1979 · as Murray Klein · series63.4A
All the President's Men1976 · as Howard Simons78.3T
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three1974 · as Green74.8M
Murder on the Orient Express1974 · as Bianchi53.3C
Confessions of a Police Captain1971 · as Commissario Giacomo Bonavia56.4L
Little Big Man1970 · as Mr. Merriweather72.5T
Tora! Tora! Tora!1970 · as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel66.3C
Catch-221970 · as Colonel Cathcart52.31960s9 titles
T
Trilogy1969 · as Ivor Belli (segment: Among the Paths to Eden)58.5H
Hombre1967 · as Henry Mendez73.7A
A Thousand Clowns1965 · as Arnold56.4B
The Bedford Incident1965 · as Lt. Cmdr. Chester Potter M.D., U.S.N.55.9S
Seven Days in May1964 · as Paul Girard75.8C
Cape Fear1962 · as Police Chief Mark Dutton75.0B
Breakfast at Tiffany's1961 · as O.J. Berman73.2P
Psycho1960 · as Det. Milton Arbogast85.0E
Everybody Go Home!1960 · as Sergente Quintino Fornaciari59.5
