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

Title	Character	Year	Rating
The Silence of the Hams	Det. Martin Balsam	1994	4.884
Two Evil Eyes	Mr. Pym	1990	6.135
The Brother from Space	Frather Howard	1988	4.0
The Delta Force	Ben Kaplan	1986	5.962
St. Elmo's Fire	Mr. Beamish	1985	6.123
Death Wish 3	Bennett Cross	1985	6.2
The Horror Show	(archive footage)	1979	3.8
Cuba	Gen. Bello	1979	5.51
Silver Bears	Joe Fiore	1977	6.044
All the President's Men	Howard Simons	1976	7.661
Two-Minute Warning	Sam McKeever	1976	6.229
Mitchell	James Arthur Cummings	1975	3.283
Murder on the Orient Express	Signor Bianchi	1974	7.143
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three	Green	1974	7.448
The Stone Killer	Al Vescari	1973	6.159
The Hassled Hooker	District Attorney Turrisi	1972	6.333
The Anderson Tapes	Haskins	1971	6.133
Catch-22	Col. Cathcart	1970	6.671
Tora! Tora! Tora!	Admiral Husband E. Kimmel	1970	7.161
Little Big Man	Mr. Merriweather	1970	7.45
Hombre	Henry Mendez	1967	7.061
Harlow	Everett Redman	1965	5.605
A Thousand Clowns	Arnold	1965	6.906
Seven Days in May	Paul Girard	1964	7.32
The Carpetbaggers	Bernard B. Norman	1964	5.859
Cape Fear	Police Chief Mark Dutton	1962	7.463
Breakfast at Tiffany's	O.J. Berman	1961	7.624
Psycho	Milton Arbogast	1960	8.414
Winterset	Garth	1959	9.0
Al Capone	Mac Keeley, reporter	1959	6.598

Known for	Acting
Credits	30
Born	1919
From	The Bronx, New …

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