Martin Balsam
Gender: Male
Born: 4th November 1919
Died: 13th February 1996
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Archie Bunker's Place, Glitter, Valiant Lady, The Greatest Gift, The Six Million Dollar Man
Movies: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Catch-22, Psycho, The Delta Force, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Two Evil Eyes, The Bedford Incident, Me, Natalie, The Anderson Tapes, Mitchell, Time Limit, A Thousand Clowns, Two-Minute Warning, Death Wish 3, All the President's Men, Murder on the Orient Express, 12 Angry Men, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, The Stone Killer, The Man, A Brand New Life, There Goes the Bride, Second Serve, La Classe américaine, Terror in the Aisles, Middle of the Night, St. Elmo's Fire, Cape Fear, Cape Fear, The Sentinel, On the Waterfront, The Salamander, Cuba, After the Fox, Seven Days in May, Raid on Entebbe, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, Harlow, The House on Garibaldi Street, Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, Trapped Beneath the Sea, Little Big Man, Mystery Science Theater 3000: Mitchell, Conquered City, Hombre, Confessions of a Police Captain, Defender, Contract on Cherry Street
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho.
Martin Balsam was born in The Bronx, New York to Jewish parents Lillian (née Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, who was a manufacturer of ladies sportswear. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School, where he participated in the drama club. He studied at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator and then served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
Martin Balsam made his professional debut in August 1941 in a production of The Play's the Thing in Locust Valley. In 1947, he was selected by Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg to be a player in the Actors Studio television program. He appeared in many other television drama series, including The Twilight Zone (episodes "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" and "The New Exhibit"), as a psychologist in the pilot episode, Five Fingers, Target: The Corruptors!, The Eleventh Hour, Breaking Point, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Fugitive, and Mr. Broadway, as a retired
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