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Martin Balsam

Martin Balsam

Highest Rated: 100% 12 Angry Men (1957)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Silence of the Hams (1994)

Birthday: Nov 4, 1919

Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA

The heavyset, balding Balsam was a familiar face as a character actor since his career began on Broadway in the early 1940s. After a hiatus to serve in the US Army during WWII, he found work on stage in a number of Broadway productions including "Lamp at Midnight," "Macbeth" and "The Closing Door" and on TV in such varied shows as "Philco Television Playhouse" (NBC), "The Goldbergs" (CBS) and "Captain Video" (ABC). In the 50s and 60s, Balsam continued to appear on stage including appearances on Broadway in two of Tennessee Williams' plays: with Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach in "The Rose Tattoo" (1951) and "Camino Real" (1952) as well as a Tony Award-winning turn as three characters in Robert Anderson's comic one-acts "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running" (1967). Other credits include Bernie Dodd in Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl" (in Easthampton, New York, 1954), Hickey in Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" (in Los Angeles, 1961) and Willie Loman in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" (in Philadelphia, 1974).

Highest rated movies

100% 12 Angry Men 99% On the Waterfront 98% The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 97% Psycho
94% All the President's Men
94% Hombre
92% Seven Days in May
92% Cape Fear

Photos

THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS, center to right: Martin Balsam (in vest), dick Peabody (rear), Buddy Hackett (hands in pockets), 1969 THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS, Martin Balsam, Lois Nettleton, Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, 1969 THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS, Tina Louise, Martin Balsam, 1969 CAPE FEAR, Martin Balsam, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, 1962 DEATH WISH 3, Martin Balsam, 1985, (c)Cannon Films HOMBRE, Martin Balsam, Paul Newman, 1967, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. THE MAN, Martin Balsam, 1972 THE SENTINEL, Martin Balsam, 1977 A THOUSAND CLOWNS, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, 1965 TIME LIMIT, Martin Balsam, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, 1957. TRILOGY, Martin Balsam, Maureen Stapleton, 1969 TWELVE ANGRY MEN, Martin Balsam, 1957 CATCH-22, Buck Henry, Martin Balsam, 1970 WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED, from left: Jill St. John, Carol Burnett, Louis Nye, Elliott Reid, Martin Balsam, between scenes, on location at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1963 WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?, from left, Dean Martin, Martin Balsam, 1963 DEATH WISH 3, Martin Balsam, 1985. ©Cannon Films DELTA FORCE, Shelley Winters, Martin Balsam, Robert Forster, 1986, (c)Cannon Films TWELVE ANGRY MEN, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, E.G. Marshall, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, John Fiedler, Henry Fonda, Joseph Sweeney, Ed Begley, Martin Balsam, George Voskovec, Robert Webber, 1957 TIME LIMIT, Martin Balsam, Dolores Michaels, Richard Widmark, 1957 THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE, Martin Balsam, Robert Shaw, 1974
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Legend of the Spirit Dog Gramps (Character) - 1997
0% 44% The Silence of the Hams Detective Martin Balsam (Character) - 1994
75% 77% Cape Fear Judge (Character) $76.4M 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Match Unknown (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brother From Space Father Howard (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Child Saver Sidney Rosenberg (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brothers in Blood Major Briggs (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet P.I. Private Investigations Cliff Dowling (Character) $21.3K 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kids Like These Grandpa (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Second Serve Dr. Beck (Character) - 1986
15% 49% The Delta Force Ben Kaplan (Character) $15.9M 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Once Again Unknown (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Whatever It Takes Hap Perchicksky (Character) - 1986
16% 53% Death Wish 3 Bennett (Character) $15.9M 1985
42% 67% St. Elmo's Fire Mr. Beamish (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Grown Ups Jack (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 20% Murder in Space Alexander Rostov (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Goodbye People Max Silverman (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 60% I Want to Live Jack Brady (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 40% The Salamander Captain Steffanelli (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The People vs. Jean Harris Joel Aurnou (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet There Goes the Bride Elmer Babcock (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Warning Questore Martorana (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Love Tapes David Franklin (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Aunt Mary Harry Strasberg (Character) - 1979
42% 28% Cuba Gen. Bello (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Seeding of Sarah Burns Dr. Samuel Melman (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 70% The House on Garibaldi Street Isser Harel (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 50% Eyes Behind the Stars Inspector Jim Grant (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 33% Silver Bears Joe Fiore (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Millionaire Arthur Haines (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rainbow Louis B. Mayer (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Siege Henry Fancher (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 64% Raid on Entebbe Daniel Cooper (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blood and Diamonds Rizzo (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Contract on Cherry Street Capt. Ernie Weinberg (Character) - 1977
45% 44% The Sentinel Prof. Ruzinsky (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Storyteller Ira Davidoff (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Anger in His Eyes Commissario (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Meet Him and Die Giulianelli (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 20% Death Rage Commissario (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 80% The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case Edward J. Reilly (Character) - 1976
94% 92% All the President's Men Howard Simons (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cry Onion Henry 'Jack' Pullitzer (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mrs. R Ham Russell Buckner (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 29% Mitchell James Arthur Cummings (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Season for Assassins Commissioner Katroni (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Smiling Maniacs Carlo Goja (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Miles to Go Before I Sleep Ben Montgomery (Character) - 1974
90% 78% Murder on the Orient Express Signor Bianchi (Character) - 1974
98% 88% The Taking of Pelham One Two Three Green (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapped Beneath the Sea T.C. Hollister (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Corruzione al palazzo di giustizia Carlo Goja (Character) - 1974
60% 42% The Stone Killer Al Vescari (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 19% Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams Harry Walden (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Brand New Life Jim Douglas (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 33% Counselor at Crime Don Antonio Macaluso (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 75% The Six Million Dollar Man Dr. Rudy Wells (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 71% Confessions of a Police Captain Commissario Bonavia (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chronicle of a homicide Unknown (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Night of Terror Capt. Caleb Sark (Character) - 1972
76% 53% The Anderson Tapes Haskins (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Enemy Before Us Angie (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man Jim Talley (Character) - 1971
55% 81% Tora! Tora! Tora! Adm. Husband E. Kimmel (Character) - 1970
91% 87% Little Big Man Mr. Merriweather (Character) - 1970
81% 76% Catch-22 Col. Cathcart (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Old Man Who Cried Wolf Stanley Pulska (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hunters Are for Killing Wade Hamilton (Character) - 1970
17% 28% The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Mayor Wilker (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trilogy Ivor Belli (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 75% Me, Natalie Uncle Harold (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nightmare Herb Witmer (Character) - 1968
94% 80% Hombre Henry Mendez (Character) - 1967
80% 65% After the Fox Harry (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 46% Harlow Everett Redman (Character) - 1965
72% 88% A Thousand Clowns Arnold (Character) - 1965
86% 75% The Bedford Incident Lieutenant Commander Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N. (Character) - 1965
33% 62% The Carpetbaggers Bernard B. Norman (Character) - 1964
92% 89% Seven Days in May Paul Girard (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 28% Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Sanford Kaufman (Character) - 1963
92% 86% Cape Fear Police Chief Mark Dutton (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conquered City Joseph Feinberg (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 50% Ada Steve Jackson (Character) - 1961
88% 91% Breakfast at Tiffany's O.J. Berman (Character) - 1961
97% 95% Psycho Det. Milton Arbogast (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 87% Everybody Go Home Sergente Quintino Fornaciari (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 62% Middle of the Night Jack (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 58% Al Capone Mac Keeley (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 53% Marjorie Morningstar Dr. David Harris (Character) - 1958
100% 97% 12 Angry Men Juror No. 1 (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 64% Time Limit Sgt. Baker (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Defender Unknown (Character) - 1957
99% 95% On the Waterfront Gillette (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Innocent Prey Sheriff Virgil Baker (Character) -

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hotel Unknown (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Edgar Carmody (Guest Star) 1986
66% No Score Yet Archie Bunker's Place Murray Klein (Character) 1979-1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Maude Unknown (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Ray Kaufman (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Police Story Det. Al Koster (Character) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Six Million Dollar Man first Dr. Rudy Wells (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1968 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Andrew Newmark (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Unknown (Guest Star) 1962 1966
100% No Score Yet The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wagon Train Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
92% 96% The Twilight Zone Danny Weiss (Character) 1959 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Route 66 Evan Corelli (Guest Star) 1961 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Untouchables Unknown (Guest Star) 1961-1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cain's Hundred Unknown (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet 85% Alfred Hitchcock Presents Leonard Thompson (Character) 1958 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Have Gun -- Will Travel Unknown (Guest Star) 1958 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zane Grey Theatre Unknown (Character) 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rawhide Unknown (Guest Star) 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Studio One Unknown (Guest Star) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet The United States Steel Hour Petty Officer (Character) 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Suspense Unknown (Character) 1949