Martin Henry Balsam, nado en Nova York o 4 de novembro de 1919 e finado en Roma (Italia) o 13 de febreiro de 1996 foi un actor estadounidense.
Traxectoria Balsam comezou na interpretación no club de teatro do instituto e estudou arte dramática co director alemán Erwin Piscator antes de servir nas forzas aéreas durante a segunda guerra mundial.
O seu debut profesional foi en 1941 coa obra The Play's the Thing en Locust Valley e en 1948 foi seleccionado por Elia Kazan como membro do Actors Studio. Neses anos Balsam participou en varias series de televisión.
En 1960 interpretou un dos seus papeis máis célebres, o detective Arbogast no clásico de Alfred Hitchcock Psicose e en 1965 gañou o Oscar ao mellor actor secundario por A Thousand Clowns.
Igual que Gregory Peck e Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam apareceu no filme Cape Fear (1962), e no seu remake, dirixido por Martin Scorsese.
Faleceu repentinamente dun infarto en 1996, aos 76 anos, mentres estaba de vacacións en Italia.
Filmografía Ano Título Personaxes Notas 1949 Suspense Abramson 1949-1950 Actors Studio Soldado 4 capítulos 1950 Danger 2 capítulos1951 The Living Christ Series Innkeeper Miniserie The Big Story Bill Pinney The Eternal Light 1952 The Living Bible Nobleman 1953 Man Against Crime Tony/Jean Pinay Valiant Lady Joey Gordon 1954 A lei do silencio Gillette Sen acreditar Inner Sanctum Mystery Wesley/Hanson/Larkin 3 capítulos 1954-1955 Philco Television Playhouse Charlie Malick/Mike Galloway 3 capítulos 1954-1956 Goodyear Television Playhouse Perkins/Walter Gregg 3 capítulos1955 The Greatest Gift Harold Matthews #2 The United States Steel Hour Petty Officer 1957 12 Angry Men Xurado #1 Time Limit Sargeant Baker 1957-1958 Studio One Francis Toohey/Ed Coyne 3 capítulos1958 Kraft Television Theatre Dino Marjorie Morningstar Dr. David Harris Father Knows Best Teacher Pursuit Holden Decoy Nick Santos Alfred Hitchcock Presents Leonard Thompson 1958-1959 Playhouse 90 Sam Gordon/Captain Mantell 3 capítulos Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Gambetta/Dr. Gillespie 2 capítulos 1958-1960 Have Gun - Will Travel Marshall Jim Brock/Charles Dawes 2 capítulos1959 Rawhide Father Fabian Al Capone Mac Keeley The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen 2 capítulos 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 1959-1962 Naked City Captain Russell Barris/Joseph Creeley/Caldwell Wyatt/Arnold Fleischman 4 capítulos 1960 Five Fingers Monteverdi Goodyear Theater Joe Lane The Robert Herridge Theater Sunday Showcase Nicola Sacco Psicose Detective Milton Arbogast Tutti a casa Sergenti 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 capítulos1962 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 capítulos 1963 Route 66 Mike The Eleventh Hour Frank Dunlear The Twilight Zone Capítulo: The New Exhibit - Martin Lombard Senescu 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 Sen acreditar Mr. Broadway Nate Bannerman 1965 ITV Play of the Week Doc Delaney The Man from U.N.C.L.E Albert Sully Harlow Everett Redman The Bedford Incident Lieutenant Commander Chester Potter, M.D. U.S.N A Thousand Clowns Arnold 1966 Caccia alla volpe Harry Granoff Anyone Around My Base Is It Narrador Curtametraxe documental 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 Só voz, telefilme documental1969 Me, Natalie Uncle Harold The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Mayor Wilker Trilogy Ivor Belli Capítulo: Among the Paths to Eden 1970 CBS Playhouse Jesse Hunters Are for Killing Wade Hamilton Telefilme Catch-22 Colonial 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 Xuíz Aldo Sola The Hassled Hooker Fiscal do distrito Turrisi The Man Jim Talley Night of Terror Captain Caleb Sark Telefilme The Infamous Column 1973 A Brand New Life Jim Douglas Telefilme The Six Million Dollar Man Dr. Rudy Wells Telefilme The Stone Killer Al Vescari Counselor at Crime Don Antonio Macaluso Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams Harry Walden Money to Burn Telefilme Police Story Detective Al Koster 1974 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three Harold "Green" Longman Trapped Beneath the Sea T.C. Hollister Telefilme Kojak Ray Kaufman Asasinato no Orient Express Bianchi 1975 Miles to Go Before I Sleep Ben Montgomery Telefilme Corruzione al palazzo di giustizia Carlo Goja Death Among Friends Ham Russell Buckner Telefilme Cipolla Colt Petrus Lamb Mitchell James Arthur Cummings Season for Assassins Commissioner Katroni 1976 The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case Edward J. Reilly Telefilme Tódolos homes do presidente Howard Simons Maude Chester Pronto ad uccidere Giulianelli Death Rage Commissario Two-Minute Warning Sam McKeever Raid on Entebbe Daniel Cooper Telefilme1977 The Sentinel Professor Ruzinsky Contract on Cherry Street Captain Ernie Weinberg The Storyteller Ira Davidoff Telefilme Blood and Diamonds Rizzo Eyes Behind the Stars Inspector Jim Grant 1978 Silver Bears Joe Fiore Siege Henry Fancher Telefilme Rainbow Louis B. Mayer Telefilme The Millionaire Arthur Haines Telefilme The Joe Franklin Show El mesmo Entrevista A Salute to American Imagination El mesmo Telefilme documental1979 The Seeding of Sarah Burns Dr. Samuel Melman Telefilme Gardenia Salluzzo The House on Garibaldi Street Isser Harel Telefilme Aunt Mary Harry Strasburg Telefilme Cuba General Bello 1980 The Love Tapes David Franklin There Goes the Bride Elmer Babcock Ľavvertimento Questore Martorana 1981 The Salamander Captain Steffanelli The People vs. Jean Harris Joel Aurnou Telefilme 1982 Quincy, M.E. Hyam Sigerski Little Gloria... Happy at Last Nathan Burkan Telefilme Night of 100 Stars Himself Especial de televisión 1983 I Want to Live! Jack Brady Telefilme Cold Storage Parmigian Telefilme1984 The Goodbye People Max Silverman Innocent Prey Sheriff Virgil Baker Rodado en 1984 e estreado en vídeo en 19911985 Space Senator Glancey Miniserie St. Elmo's Fire Mr. Beamish Murder in Space Alexander Rostov Telefilme Death Wish 3 Bennett Great Performances Jack Glitter Bo 1986 La piovra Frank Carrisi Miniserie 5 episodios The Delta Force Ben Kaplan Whatever It Takes Hap Perchicksky Second Serve Dr. Beck Telefilme Murder, She Wrote Edgar Carmody Capítulos "Death Stalks The Big Top" Parts 1 & 2 The Twilight Zone Professor Donald Knowles Capítulo: "Voices in the Earth"1987 Hotel Dr. Gilbert Holt Queenie Marty Miniserie P.I. Private Investigations Cliff Dowling The Twilight Zone Rockne O'Bannon Capítulo: "Personal Demons" Brothers in Blood Major Briggs Kids Like These Grandpa Telefilme Once Again Telefilme1988 The Child Saver Sidney Rosenberg Telefilme The Brother from Space Father Howard 1989 Oceano Miniserie1990 Due occhi diabolici Mr. Pym Midnight Caller Gil Solarski La piovra Don Calogero Barretta 1991 Ľultima meta Avogado Cape Fear Xuíz 1992 The Sands of Time Telefilme 1993 The Black Cat Curtametraxe 1994 Il silenzio dei prosciutti Detective Martin Balsam 1995 Soldato ignoto 1997 Legend of the Spirit Dog Gramps
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