Martin Balsam | |
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Born | Martin Henry Balsam November 4, 1919 Bronx, New York, U.S. |
Died | February 13, 1996 76) Rome, Italy | (aged
Resting place | Cedar Park Cemetery, Emerson, New Jersey, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1947–1995 |
Spouse(s) | Pearl Somner (1952–54) Joyce Van Patten (1957–62; 1 child) Irene Miller (1963–87; 2 children) |
Children | 3, including Talia Balsam |
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) [1] was an American character actor. [2] [3] He is best known for a number of renowned film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns (1965) (for which he won 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).
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Known as "the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1965).
Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano. It stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film centers on an encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), who ends up at a secluded motel after stealing money from her employer, and the motel's owner-manager, Norman Bates (Perkins), and its aftermath.
A Thousand Clowns is a 1965 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe and starring Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, and Barry Gordon. An adaptation of a 1962 play by Herb Gardner, it tells the story of an eccentric comedy writer who is forced to conform to society to retain legal custody of his nephew.
Martin Henry Balsam was born in the Bronx borough of New York City, to Russian Jewish parents, Lillian (née Weinstein) and Albert Balsam, who was a manufacturer of women's sportswear. [4] [5] He attended DeWitt Clinton High School, where he participated in the drama club. [4] He studied at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the German director Erwin Piscator and then served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
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DeWitt Clinton High School is a public high school located since 1929 in The Bronx, New York, United States. Opened in 1897 in Lower Manhattan and initially operated as an all-boys school, it maintained that status for nearly 100 years. In 1983 it became co-ed. From its original building on West 13th Street in Manhattan, it moved in 1906 to its second home on 59th Street and Tenth Avenue. In 1929 the school moved to its present home on Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx.
Martin Balsam made his professional debut in August 1941 in a production of The Play's the Thing in Locust Valley. [6] During World War II, he served as a sergeant radio operator in a B-24 in the China-Burma-India theater of operations. [3]
In early 1948, he was selected by Elia Kazan to be a member in the recently formed Actors Studio. [7] Balsam went on to perform in several episodes of the studio's dramatic television anthology series, broadcast between September 1948 and 1950. He appeared in many other television drama series, including Decoy with Beverly Garland, 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 U.N.C.L.E. agent in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode, "The Odd Man Affair", and guest-starred in the two-part Murder, She Wrote episode, "Death Stalks the Big Top". He also appeared in the Route 66 episode, "Somehow It Gets To Be Tomorrow".
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The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5, 1947, by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford and Robert Lewis, who provided training for actors who were members. Lee Strasberg joined later and took the helm in 1951 until his death on February 17, 1982.
An anthology series is a radio, television or book series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode or season. These usually have a different cast each week, but several series in the past, such as Four Star Playhouse, employed a permanent troupe of character actors who would appear in a different drama each week. Some anthology series, such as Studio One, began on radio and then expanded to television.
Balsam appeared in such films as On the Waterfront , 12 Angry Men (as Juror #1), Time Limit , Breakfast at Tiffany's , The Carpetbaggers , Seven Days in May , The Anderson Tapes , Hombre , Catch-22 , Tora! Tora! Tora! (as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel), Little Big Man , The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , All the President's Men , Murder on the Orient Express , The Delta Force , and The Goodbye People .
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film was suggested by "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November–December 1948 in the New York Sun which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story. The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen, while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey.
12 Angry Men is a 1957 American courtroom drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. This courtroom drama tells the story of a jury of 12 men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt, forcing the jurors to question their morals and values. In the United States, a verdict in most criminal trials by jury must be unanimous. The defendant is an 18-year-old male and the witnesses are the lady across the street and the old man.
Time Limit is a 1957 legal drama film directed by Karl Malden, based on the Broadway play of the same name written by Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey. The film is Malden's only directing credit; in his autobiography, Malden stated that he "preferred being a good actor to being a fairly good director."
In 1960, he appeared in one of his best-remembered roles as Detective Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho . Along with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam appeared in both the original Cape Fear (1962), and the 1991 Martin Scorsese remake. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns (1965). In 1968, he 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 .
Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor. He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five Academy Award for Best Actor nominations and won once for his performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film To Kill a Mockingbird.
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several classic films noir, and is generally considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. His best-known films include Out of the Past (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), and Cape Fear (1962). Mitchum was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Story of G.I. Joe (1945).
Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological thriller film starring Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, and Polly Bergen. It was adapted by James R. Webb from the 1957 novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald. It was initially storyboarded by Alfred Hitchcock, subsequently directed by J. Lee Thompson, and released on April 12, 1962. The film concerns an attorney whose family is stalked by a criminal he helped to send to jail.
Balsam played Washington Post editor Howard Simons in All the President's Men (1976), and a film that eventually became a highly popular Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, the Joe Don Baker police drama Mitchell (1975). He played Dr. Rudy Wells when the Martin Caidin novel Cyborg was adapted as a TV-movie pilot for The Six Million Dollar Man (1973), though he did not reprise the role for the subsequent series. He appeared as a spokesman/hostage in the TV movie Raid on Entebbe (1976) and as a detective in the TVM Contract on Cherry Street (1977). He also appeared on an episode of Quincy ME . Balsam starred as Murray Klein on the All in the Family spin-off Archie Bunker's Place for two seasons (1979–81) and returned for a guest appearance in the show's fourth and final season. He even filled in for Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game for one question when Reilly was late for a taping.
Balsam performed the original voice of the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey . After his lines were recorded, director Stanley Kubrick decided "Marty just sounded a little bit too colloquially American," and hired Douglas Rain to perform the role for the released film. [8]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1949 | Suspense | Abramson | |
1949–1950 | Actors Studio | Soldier | 4 episodes |
1950 | Danger | 2 episodes | |
1951 | The Living Christ Series | Innkeeper | Miniseries |
The Big Story | Bill Pinney | ||
Frontiers of Faith | |||
1952 | The Living Bible | Nobleman | |
1953 | Man Against Crime | Tony / Jean Pinay | |
Valiant Lady | Joey Gordon | ||
1954 | On the Waterfront | Gillette, Secondary Investigator for Crime Commission | Uncredited |
The Greatest Gift | Harold Matthews #2 | ||
Inner Sanctum Mystery | Wesley / Hanson / Larkin | 3 episodes | |
1954–1955 | Philco Television Playhouse | Charlie Malick / Mike Galloway | 3 episodes |
1954–1956 | Goodyear Television Playhouse | Perkins / Walter Gregg | 3 episodes |
1955 | The United States Steel Hour | Petty Officer | |
1957 | 12 Angry Men | Juror #1 | |
Time Limit | Sargeant Baker | ||
1957–1958 | Studio One | Francis Toohey / Ed Coyne | 3 episodes |
1958 | Kraft Television Theatre | Dino | |
Marjorie Morningstar | Dr. David Harris | ||
Father Knows Best | Teacher | ||
Pursuit | Holden | ||
Decoy | Nick Santos | ||
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Leonard Thompson | ||
1958–59 | Playhouse 90 | Sam Gordon / Captain Mantell | 3 episodes |
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Gambetta / Dr. Gillespie | 2 episodes | |
1958–1960 | Have Gun - Will Travel | Marshall Jim Brock / Charles Dawes | 2 episodes |
1959 | Rawhide | Father Fabian | |
Al Capone | Mac Keeley | ||
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen | 2 episodes | ||
Middle of the Night | Jack | ||
Brenner | Arnold Joplin | ||
The DuPont Show of the Month | Charlie Davis | ||
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater | Sam Butler | ||
Winterset | Garth | ||
The Twilight Zone | Danny Weiss | Episode: "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" | |
1959–1962 | Naked City | Captain Russell Barris / Joseph Creeley / Caldwell Wyatt / Arnold Fleischman | 4 episodes |
1960 | Five Fingers | Monteverdi | |
Goodyear Theater | Joe Lane | ||
The Robert Herridge Theater | |||
Sunday Showcase | Nicola Sacco | ||
Psycho | Detective Milton Arbogast | ||
Tutti a casa | Sergeant Quintino Fornaciari | ||
1961 | Way Out | Bill Clayton | |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Elon Marsh | ||
Ada | Steve Jackson | ||
Breakfast at Tiffany's | O.J. Berman | ||
The New Breed | Frank Eberhardt | ||
The Untouchables | Barry Leimer | ||
Route 66 | Corelli | ||
1961–1964 | The Defenders | District Attorney / Bernard Maxwell / Floyd Harker | 4 episodes |
1962 | Cain's Hundred | Jack Garsell | |
The Untouchables | Arnold Justin | ||
Cape Fear | Police Chief Mark Dutton | ||
Target: The Corruptors | Jeffrey Marvin | ||
La città prigioniera | Joseph Feinberg | ||
1962–1966 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Milton Orliff / Benny Orloff / Ned Lacey | 7 episodes |
1963 | Route 66 | Mike | |
The Eleventh Hour | Frank Dunlear | ||
The Twilight Zone | Martin Lombard Senescu | Episode: "The New Exhibit" | |
Breaking Point | Rabbi Eli Oringer | ||
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? | Sanford Kaufman | ||
1964 | Arrest and Trial | Leo Valera | |
Espionage | Richard Carey | ||
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Dave Breslaw | ||
Seven Days in May | Presidential aide Paul Girard | ||
Wagon Train | Marcey Jones | ||
Suspense | Detective Jack Gross | ||
The Carpetbaggers | Bernard B. Norman | ||
Youngblood Hawke | Cameo Appearance | Uncredited | |
Mr. Broadway | Nate Bannerman | ||
1965 | ITV Play of the Week | Doc Delaney | |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E | Albert Sully | Episode: "The Odd Man Affair" | |
Harlow | Everett Redman | ||
The Bedford Incident | Lieutenant Commander Chester Potter, USNR, MD | ||
A Thousand Clowns | Arnold | won Academy Award for best supporting actor | |
1966 | Caccia alla volpe | Harry Granoff | |
"Anyone Around My Base Is It" | Narrator | Short Documentary | |
1967 | The Fugitive | Andrew Newmark | |
Hombre | Mendez | ||
Among the Paths to Eden | Ivor Belli | ||
1968 | The Name of the Game | Angie | |
Around the World of Mike Todd | Michael Todd | TV movie / Documentary; Voice | |
1969 | Me, Natalie | Uncle Harold | |
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | Mayor Wilker | ||
Trilogy | Ivor Belli | (segment: "Among the Paths to Eden") | |
1970 | CBS Playhouse | Jesse | |
Hunters Are for Killing | Wade Hamilton | TV movie | |
Catch-22 | Colonel Cathcart | Group Commander, 256th Bomb Group | |
Tora! Tora! Tora! | Admiral Husband E. Kimmel | ||
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Stanley Pulska | ||
The Name of the Game | Herb Witmer | ||
Little Big Man | Mr. Merriweather | ||
1971 | Confessions of a Police Captain | Inspector Bonavia | |
The Anderson Tapes | Tommy Haskins | ||
1972 | Chronicle of a Homicide | Judge Aldo Sola | |
The Hassled Hooker | District Attorney Turrisi | ||
The Man | Jim Talley | ||
Night of Terror | Captain Caleb Sark | TV movie | |
The Infamous Column | |||
1973 | A Brand New Life | Jim Douglas | TV movie |
The Six Million Dollar Man | Dr. Rudy Wells | TV movie: "The Moon and the Desert" | |
The Stone Killer | Al Vescari | ||
Counselor at Crime | Don Antonio Macaluso | ||
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Harry Walden | ||
Money to Burn | TV movie | ||
Police Story | Detective Al Koster | ||
1974 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Harold "Green" Longman | |
Trapped Beneath the Sea | T.C. Hollister | TV movie | |
Kojak | Ray Kaufman | ||
Murder on the Orient Express | Bianchi | ||
1975 | Miles to Go Before I Sleep | Ben Montgomery | TV movie |
Smiling Maniacs | Carlo Goja | ||
Death Among Friends | Ham Russell Buckner | TV movie | |
Cry, Onion! | Petrus Lamb | ||
Mitchell | James Arthur Cummings | ||
Season for Assassins | Commissioner Katroni | ||
1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Edward J. Reilly | TV movie |
All the President's Men | Howard Simons | ||
Maude | Chester | ||
Meet Him and Die | Giulianelli | ||
Death Rage | Commissario | ||
Two-Minute Warning | Sam McKeever | ||
Raid on Entebbe | Daniel Cooper | TV movie | |
1977 | The Sentinel | Professor Ruzinsky | |
Silver Bears | Joe Fiore | ||
Contract on Cherry Street | Captain Ernie Weinberg | ||
The Storyteller | Ira Davidoff | TV movie | |
Blood and Diamonds | Rizzo | ||
1978 | Eyes Behind the Stars | Inspector Jim Grant | |
Siege | Henry Fancher | TV movie | |
Rainbow | Louis B. Mayer | TV movie | |
The Millionaire | Arthur Haines | TV movie | |
The Joe Franklin Show | Himself | Television interview | |
A Salute to American Imagination | Himself | TV movie / Documentary | |
1979 | The Seeding of Sarah Burns | Dr. Samuel Melman | TV movie |
Gardenia | Salluzzo | ||
The House on Garibaldi Street | Isser Harel | TV movie | |
Aunt Mary | Harry Strasburg | TV movie | |
Cuba | General Bello | ||
1979-1983 | Archie Bunker's Place | Murray Klein | series regular / guest star; 46 episodes |
1980 | The Love Tapes | David Franklin | |
There Goes the Bride | Elmer Babcock | ||
The Warning | Questore Martorana | ||
1981 | The Salamander | Captain Steffanelli | |
The People vs. Jean Harris | Joel Aurnou | TV movie | |
1982 | Quincy, M.E. | Hyam Sigerski | |
Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Nathan Burkan | TV movie | |
Night of 100 Stars | Himself | TV special | |
1983 | I Want to Live! | Jack Brady | TV movie |
Cold Storage | Parmigian | TV Movie | |
1984 | The Goodbye People | Max Silverman | |
Innocent Prey | Sheriff Virgil Baker | ||
1985 | Space | Senator Glancey | Miniseries |
St. Elmo's Fire | Mr. Beamish | ||
Murder in Space | Alexander Rostov | TV movie | |
Death Wish 3 | Bennett | ||
Great Performances | Jack | ||
Glitter | Bo | ||
1986 | La piovra 2 | Frank Carrisi | Miniseries; 5 episodes |
The Delta Force | Ben Kaplan | ||
Whatever It Takes | Hap Perchicksky | ||
Second Serve | Dr. Beck | TV movie | |
Murder, She Wrote | Edgar Carmody | Episodes: "Death Stalks The Big Top" Parts 1 & 2 | |
The Twilight Zone | Professor Donald Knowles | Segment: "Voices in the Earth" | |
1987 | Hotel | Dr. Gilbert Holt | |
Queenie | Marty | TV miniseries | |
P.I. Private Investigations | Cliff Dowling | ||
The Twilight Zone | Rockne O'Bannon | Segment: "Personal Demons" | |
Brothers in Blood | Major Briggs | ||
Kids Like These | Grandpa | TV movie | |
Once Again | TV movie | ||
1988 | The Child Saver | Sidney Rosenberg | TV movie |
The Brother from Space | Father Howard | ||
1989 | Ocean | Don Matias Quintero | TV miniseries |
1990 | Two Evil Eyes | Mr. Pym | (segment "The Black Cat") |
Midnight Caller | Gil Solarski | ||
La piovra 5 – Il cuore del problema | Don Calogero Barretta | ||
1991 | Ľultima meta | Lawyer | |
Cape Fear | Judge | ||
1992 | The Sands of Time | TV movie | |
1993 | "The Black Cat" | Movie Short | |
1994 | The Silence of the Hams | Detective Martin Balsam | |
1995 | Soldato ignoto | English meaning: Unknown Soldier | |
1997 | Legend of the Spirit Dog | Gramps | Released posthumously on August 19, 1997, 9 months after his death, (final film role) |
In 1951, Balsam married his first wife, actress Pearl Somner. They divorced three years later. His second wife was actress Joyce Van Patten. This marriage lasted for four years (from 1958 until 1962) and produced one daughter, Talia Balsam. He married his third wife, Irene Miller, in 1963. They had two children, Adam and Zoe Balsam, and divorced in 1987. [4]
On February 13, 1996, Balsam died of a sudden stroke in his hotel room in Rome, Italy, while on holiday. He was 76. Balsam is interred at Cedar Park Cemetery, in Emerson, New Jersey. [9]
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Others usually considered founding members in Kazan's group were added in the early months of 1948. They include Martin Balsam, Kim Hunter, and Vivian Nathan.
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