Martin Balsam
Acting
Born 1919-11-04
Died 1996-02-13
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
163 credits
Academy Awards 1
Tony Awards 1
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1966 Best Supporting Actor Won A Thousand Clowns
Primetime Emmy Awards 1 nominated
- 1977 Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Nominated Raid on Entebbe
Golden Globe Awards 1 nominated
- 1974 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
BAFTA Awards 2 nominated
- 1977 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated All the President's Men
- 1976 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Tony Awards 1 won
- 1968 Best Actor in a Play Won
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor 1 won
- 1964 Best Supporting Actor Won The Carpetbaggers
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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).
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Filmography
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Acting
51 credits
Murder, She Wrote
The Mike Douglas Show
The Fugitive
Great Performances
Tony Awards
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Twilight Zone
Quincy, M.E.
Have Gun, Will Travel
Dr. Kildare
Rawhide
12 Angry Men
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Twilight Zone
The Untouchables
Naked City
The Philco Television Playhouse
Psycho
The Defenders
Studio One
The Name of the Game
The Ed Sullivan Show
Cape Fear
Kojak
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
12 O'Clock High
The Octopus
Archie Bunker's Place
Arrest and Trial
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Midnight Caller
Cain's Hundred
The New Breed
Espionage
CBS Playhouse
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Murder on the Orient Express
The Delta Force
Decoy
On the Waterfront
Cape Fear
All the President's Men
Catch-22
Death Wish 3
St. Elmo's Fire
Little Big Man
Hombre
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Actors Studio
The Sentinel
Other credits
9 credits
Hotel
Route 66
Police Story
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Valiant Lady
Inner Sanctum
Target: The Corruptors!
The Eleventh Hour
The Greatest Gift
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