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Martin Balsam
Birthday: November 4, 1919

Birth Place: The Bronx, New York, USA
Height: 5' 7"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Martin Balsam. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Bronx-raised actor Martin Balsam was the oldest of three children of a ladies' sportswear salesman. "Actors are bums" was dad's reaction when Balsam announced his intention of going into show business; still, young Martin took full advantage of lunch breaks from his "real" jobs to rehearse for amateur theatricals. After World War II, Balsam joined New York's Actors Studio, supporting himself by waiting on tables and ushering at Radio City Music Hall. During his formative years he was briefly married to actress Joyce Van Patten; their daughter Talia Balsam would later become a successful film and TV performer. Working steadily if not profitably in nightclubs and TV, Balsam made his first film, the Actors Studio-dominated On the Waterfront, in 1954. Averaging a movie and/or a play a year starting in 1957 (among his best-known film roles were Juror #1 in Twelve Angry Men [1957] and the unfortunate detective Arbogast in Psycho [1960]), Balsam went on to win a Tony for the Broadway play I Know You Can't Hear Me When the Water's Running, an Obie for the off-Broadway production Cold Storage, and an Academy Award for his performance as Jason Robards' older brother in the 1965 film version of A Thousand Clowns. Unfortunately for Balsam, the Oscar was as much a curse as a blessing on his career, and soon he was playing little more than variations on his Thousand Clowns role. In 1979, he was engaged by Norman Lear to play "lovable bigot" Archie Bunker's acerbic Jewish business partner Murray Klein on the CBS sitcom Archie Bunker's Place; he remained with the series until 1981. In 1991, Balsam appeared in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear, the remake of a film in which Balsam had co-starred (in an entirely different role) in 1962.

Movie Credits
Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997)
[ Martin Landau ]
Soldato ignoto (1995)
Silenzio dei prosciutti, Il (1994)
[ Billy Zane ][ Mel Brooks ][ John Astin ][ Dom DeLuise ][ Peter DeLuise ]
The Black Cat (1993)
The Sands of Time (1992)
[ James Brolin ][ Rene Auberjonois ][ Roddy McDowall ][ Michael Nouri ]
Cape Fear (1991)
[ Robert De Niro ][ Steven Spielberg ][ Martin Scorsese ][ Gregory Peck ][ Nick Nolte ]
Due occhi diabolici (1990)
[ Harvey Keitel ][ George A. Romero ][ Dario Argento ][ Tom Savini ]
Ultima partita, L' (1990)
[ Ernest Borgnine ]
Fratello dello spazio (1988)
The Child Saver (1988)
[ Deon Richmond ]
Once Again (1987)
Kids Like These (1987)
[ Tyne Daly ][ Richard Crenna ]
P.I. Private Investigations (1987)
[ Clayton Rohner ]
Queenie (1987)
[ Kirk Douglas ][ Topol ][ Joss Ackland ]
Death Stalks the Big Top: Part 1 (1986)
[ Jackie Cooper ][ Greg Evigan ]
Second Serve (1986)
[ William Russ ]
The Delta Force (1986)
[ Chuck Norris ][ Lee Marvin ][ Robert Vaughn ][ George Kennedy ][ Robert Forster ]
Whatever It Takes (1986)
Sporca insegna del coraggio, La (1986)
Gramma/Personal Demons/Cold Reading (1986)
Grown-Ups (1985)
[ Charles Grodin ]
Death Wish 3 (1985)
[ Charles Bronson ][ Alex Winter ]
Murder in Space (1985)
[ Michael Ironside ][ Wilford Brimley ][ Clark Johnson ]
St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
[ Emilio Estevez ][ Rob Lowe ][ Judd Nelson ][ Andrew McCarthy ][ Whip Hubley ]
The Goodbye People (1984)
[ Judd Hirsch ][ Ron Silver ]
Innocent Prey (1984)
I Want to Live (1983)
[ Robert Englund ][ Harry Dean Stanton ][ Seymour Cassel ][ Dana Elcar ]
Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
[ Christopher Plummer ][ J.T. Walsh ][ John Hillerman ]
The People vs. Jean Harris (1981)
[ Peter Coyote ]
The Salamander (1981)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Anthony Quinn ][ Eli Wallach ][ Cleavon Little ][ Franco Nero ]
Stephanie's Science Project (1981)
There Goes the Bride (1980)
[ John Terry ][ Graham Stark ]
The Love Tapes (1980)
[ Joss Ackland ]
Avvertimento, L' (1980)
Cuba (1979)
[ Sean Connery ][ Chris Sarandon ][ Hector Elizondo ][ Denholm Elliott ]
Aunt Mary (1979)
[ Harold Gould ]
The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
[ Topol ]
The Seeding of Sarah Burns (1979)
Gardenia, il giustiziere della mala (1979)
The Shabbat Dinner (1979)
[ Carroll O'Connor ]
Thanksgiving Reunion: Part 1 (1979)
[ Carroll O'Connor ]
Thanksgiving Reunion: Part 2 (1979)
[ Rob Reiner ][ Carroll O'Connor ]
The Millionaire (1978)
[ Bill Hudson ][ Ralph Bellamy ]
Rainbow (1978)
[ Don Murray ]
Siege (1978)
Silver Bears (1978)
[ Michael Caine ][ David Warner ][ Joss Ackland ][ Jay Leno ]
Occhi dalle stelle (1978)
The Storyteller (1977)
Contract on Cherry Street (1977)
[ Michael Nouri ]
Raid on Entebbe (1977)
[ James Woods ][ Charles Bronson ][ Robert Loggia ][ Jack Warden ][ Yaphet Kotto ]
The Sentinel (1977)
[ Christopher Walken ][ Jeff Goldblum ][ Tom Berenger ][ Chris Sarandon ][ Jerry Orbach ]
Diamanti sporchi di sangue (1977)
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
[ Charlton Heston ][ John Cassavetes ][ Beau Bridges ][ Lloyd Bridges ][ Jack Klugman ]
Pronto ad uccidere (1976)
All the President's Men (1976)
[ Dustin Hoffman ][ Robert Redford ][ F. Murray Abraham ][ Jason Robards ][ Ned Beatty ]
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
[ Anthony Hopkins ][ Joseph Cotten ][ Keenan Wynn ]
Cipolla Colt (1976)
[ Sterling Hayden ][ Franco Nero ][ David Warbeck ]
Con la rabbia agli occhi (1976)
[ Yul Brynner ]
Tempo degli assassini, Il (1975)
[ Joe Dallesandro ]
Mitchell (1975)
[ John Saxon ][ Joe Don Baker ]
Death Among Friends (1975)
[ A Martinez ]
Corruzione al palazzo di giustizia (1975)
[ Franco Nero ]
Miles to Go Before I Sleep (1975)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
[ Sean Connery ][ Albert Finney ][ Michael York ][ Anthony Perkins ][ Sidney Lumet ]
Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974)
[ Paul Michael Glaser ][ Lee J. Cobb ]
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
[ Walter Matthau ][ Robert Shaw ][ Hector Elizondo ][ Bill Cobbs ][ Ed Quinn ]
Money to Burn (1973)
[ Cleavon Little ]
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Consigliori, Il (1973)
[ Tomas Milian ]
The Stone Killer (1973)
[ John Ritter ][ Charles Bronson ][ Norman Fell ]
The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)
[ Lee Majors ][ Darren McGavin ]
A Brand New Life (1973)
Night of Terror (1972)
[ Chuck Connors ]
The Man (1972)
[ James Earl Jones ][ Burgess Meredith ]
Vero e il falso, Il (1972)
[ Terence Hill ]
Colonna infame, La (1972)
[ Helmut Berger ]
Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente (1972)
Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica (1971)
[ Franco Nero ]
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
[ Sean Connery ][ Christopher Walken ][ Sidney Lumet ]
Little Big Man (1970)
[ Dustin Hoffman ][ M. Emmet Walsh ][ Richard Mulligan ]
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970)
[ Aaron Spelling ]
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
[ Jason Robards ][ Joseph Cotten ][ James Whitmore ][ Jamie Farr ][ Keith Andes ]
Catch-22 (1970)
[ Jon Voight ][ Martin Sheen ][ Orson Welles ][ Alan Arkin ][ Anthony Perkins ]
Hunters Are for Killing (1970)
[ Burt Reynolds ][ A Martinez ]
The Day Before Sunday (1970)
[ Farley Granger ]
Trilogy (1969)
[ Truman Capote ]
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
[ David Carradine ][ Robert Mitchum ][ George Kennedy ]
Me, Natalie (1969)
[ Al Pacino ][ Bob Balaban ]
Nightmare (1968)
Trilogy: The American Boy (1968)
Hombre (1967)
[ Paul Newman ]
The Encroachment (1966)
[ William Shatner ]
Caccia alla volpe (1966)
[ Peter Sellers ][ Victor Mature ]
The Taste of Crow (1966)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ William Shatner ][ John Cho ]
What Happened to All the Sunshine and Roses? (1966)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ William Shatner ][ John Cho ]
A Patient Lost (1966)
[ Jack Nicholson ][ William Shatner ][ John Cho ]
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
[ William Daniels ][ Jason Robards ]
Harlow (1965)
[ Leslie Nielsen ][ Red Buttons ][ Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ][ Mike Connors ]
The Bedford Incident (1965)
[ Donald Sutherland ][ Sidney Poitier ][ Richard Widmark ][ James MacArthur ]
Youngblood Hawke (1964)
[ Werner Klemperer ]
The Seven Hundred Year Old Gang: Part 1 (1964)
[ Tom Poston ]
The Fine Line (1964)
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
[ George Peppard ][ Alan Ladd ]
Seven Days in May (1964)
[ Kirk Douglas ][ Burt Lancaster ][ Leonard Nimoy ]
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
[ Dean Martin ]
Città prigioniera, La (1962)
[ David Niven ][ Ben Gazzara ]
Cape Fear (1962)
[ Gregory Peck ][ Robert Mitchum ][ Telly Savalas ]
New York to L.A. (1961)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
[ George Peppard ][ Mickey Rooney ][ Mel Blanc ][ Buddy Ebsen ][ Truman Capote ]
Ada (1961)
[ Dean Martin ]
The Best Defense (1961)
First Class Mouliak (1961)
Tunnel of Horrors (1961)
Which Is Joseph Creeley? (1961)
Psycho (1960)
[ Alfred Hitchcock ][ Anthony Perkins ][ Ted Knight ]
Tutti a casa (1960)
Beyond Truth (1959)
Middle of the Night (1959)
The 16mm Shrine (1959)
Cartel for Murder (1959)
Al Capone (1959)
[ Rod Steiger ]
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
[ Gene Kelly ]
The Equalizer (1958)
The Manhunter (1958)
The Time Element (1958)
Free Weekend (1958)
[ Buddy Ebsen ][ James Whitmore ]
Bomber's Moon (1958)
[ Rip Torn ][ Cliff Robertson ]
The Defender: Part 2 (1957)
[ William Shatner ]
The Defender: Part 1 (1957)
[ Steve McQueen ][ William Shatner ][ Ralph Bellamy ]
Time Limit (1957)
[ Rip Torn ][ Richard Widmark ]
12 Angry Men (1957)
[ Henry Fonda ][ Sidney Lumet ][ Jack Warden ][ Jack Klugman ][ Lee J. Cobb ]
The Takers (1955)
Last Boat from Messina (1954)
The Joker (1954)
Statute of Limitations (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
[ Marlon Brando ][ Rod Steiger ][ Fred Gwynne ][ Karl Malden ][ Lee J. Cobb ]
Joe McSween's Atomic Machine (1949)
The Sacco-Vanzetti Story: Part 2 (0)
[ Carroll O'Connor ]

Trivia

  • Won a Tony award for his appearance in the 1967 Broadway production of "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running"
  • Father of actress Talia Balsam
  • Graduated DeWitt Clinton High School in New York [1938]
  • He was the first to record the voice of HAL in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), but was passed over in favor of Douglas Rain.
  • Studied Monkey Kung Fu as a hobby
  • Won Broadway's 1968 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running"
  • Ex-brother-in-law of Dick Van Patten, Pat Van Patten and Timothy Van Patten.
  • Ex-uncle of Vincent Van Patten, Nels Van Patten and James Van Patten.
  • A veteran of the famous Actors Studio in New York.
  • He would express frustration when fans asking for autographs would only seem to remember him falling backwards down the stairway in "Psycho". He felt there were so many other challenging roles he would rather be remembered for. Always charming, he simply smiled and provided the signature, just the same.

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