Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American character actor. He is best known for a number of film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns (1965), which earned him 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).
Known For | Acting |
---|---|
Most Rating | 19.107 |
Birthday | 1919-11-04 |
Place of Birth | Bronx, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Martin Henry Balsam, |
1961
Breakfast at Tiffany's
7.668/4051
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her a...
Watch Now
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1960
Psycho
8.4/9744
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates...
Watch Now
Psycho
1976
All the President's Men
7.672/1728
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...
Watch Now
All the President's Men
1988
The Brother from Space
2.5/4
Watch Now
The Brother from Space
1970
Catch-22
6.7/288
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a craz...
Watch Now
Catch-22
1994
The Silence of the Hams
4.9/175
The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.
Watch Now
The Silence of the Hams
1974
Murder on the Orient Express
7.153/1346
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Watch Now
Murder on the Orient Express
1972
The Hassled Hooker
6/5
Luisa Latin, betrayed by her husband, is imprisoned for the murder of her husband's mistress - who is still alive. When Luisa is released from prison,...
Watch Now
The Hassled Hooker
1970
Little Big Man
7.535/594
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
Watch Now
Little Big Man
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.2/515
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
Watch Now
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1962
Cape Fear
7.429/554
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and hi...
Watch Now
Cape Fear
1972
Night of Terror
6.25/8
A hired killer hunts down a schoolteacher to get something she has. She doesn't know what it is, but he's already killed twice to get it.
Watch Now
Night of Terror
1971
The Anderson Tapes
6.077/149
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the enti...
Watch Now
The Anderson Tapes
1985
St. Elmo's Fire
6.137/506
A group of friends graduates from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to...
Watch Now
St. Elmo's Fire
1976
Two-Minute Warning
6.1/83
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter...
Watch Now
Two-Minute Warning
1964
Seven Days in May
7.232/181
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Watch Now
Seven Days in May
1965
Harlow
5.4/18
Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both...
Watch Now
Harlow
1974
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
7.426/481
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Watch Now
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1985
Death Wish 3
6.219/389
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a la...
Watch Now
Death Wish 3
1975
"Mitchell"!
3.2/39
A tough-guy cop pursues two drug runners across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his...
Watch Now
"Mitchell"!
1973
The Stone Killer
6.2/72
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Watch Now
The Stone Killer
1967
Hombre
7.038/200
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when...
Watch Now
Hombre
1990
Two Evil Eyes
6.113/257
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a stra...
Watch Now
Two Evil Eyes
1965
A Thousand Clowns
6.923/26
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a...
Watch Now
A Thousand Clowns
1964
The Carpetbaggers
5.8/34
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruth...
Watch Now
The Carpetbaggers
1959
Al Capone
6.6/49
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny To...
Watch Now
Al Capone
1977
Silver Bears
5.9/25
Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he ar...
Watch Now
Silver Bears
1979
Cuba
5.4/44
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances...
Watch Now
Cuba
1986
The Delta Force
5.9/387
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take th...
Watch Now
The Delta Force
1957
Time Limit
7/20
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits...
Watch Now
Time Limit
1973
The Six Million Dollar Man
6.712/78
Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut and test pilot, is badly injured when he crashes while testing an experimental aircraft. A covert government agency (O...
Watch Now
The Six Million Dollar Man
1965
The Bedford Incident
6.89/82
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Th...
Watch Now
The Bedford Incident
1977
The Sentinel
6.093/189
When a beautiful model, Alison Parker, rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize that an unspeakable horror awaits h...
Watch Now
The Sentinel
1960
Everybody Go Home!
7.5/99
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Watch Now
Everybody Go Home!
1966
After the Fox
6/67
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
Watch Now
After the Fox
1969
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
5.4/23
An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a yo...
Watch Now
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1978
Eyes Behind the Stars
4/9
A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that the...
Watch Now
Eyes Behind the Stars
1973
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
5.6/10
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationship...
Watch Now
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1975
Cry, Onion!
4.9/23
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted...
Watch Now
Cry, Onion!
1987
P.I. Private Investigations
4.6/5
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
Watch Now
P.I. Private Investigations
1959
Middle of the Night
7/29
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 60s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a roma...
Watch Now
Middle of the Night
1978
Blood and Diamonds
6.3/9
A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were...
Watch Now
Blood and Diamonds
1975
Season For Assassins
4.7/6
As a gang of youths terrorizes a city, the weary chief of police finds himself caught between the citizens who cry for blood and a catholic priest who...
Watch Now
Season For Assassins
1976
Death Rage
5.5/22
A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.
Watch Now
Death Rage
1977
Contract on Cherry Street
6.3/3
A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
Watch Now
Contract on Cherry Street
1975
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
6/2
A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center.
Watch Now
Miles To Go Before I Sleep
1981
The Salamander
5.6/21
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a sala...
Watch Now
The Salamander
1971
Confessions of a Police Captain
6.545/33
A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncove...
Watch Now
Confessions of a Police Captain
1976
Meet Him and Die
5.4/5
Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly in...
Watch Now
Meet Him and Die
1961
Ada
6.1/13
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine tha...
Watch Now
Ada
1969
Me, Natalie
5.4/17
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be prett...
Watch Now
Me, Natalie
1978
Siege
5.2/4
A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. After learning that the police are stymied because th...
Watch Now
Siege
1990
The Last Match
5/5
The daughter of a star quarterback is falsely accused of drug smuggling while visiting a small Caribbean island. After his attempts to get her out of...
Watch Now
The Last Match
1969
Trilogy
6/4
Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was liste...
Watch Now
Trilogy
1972
The Man
7/2
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, S...
Watch Now
The Man
1985
Murder in Space
4.8/3
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing t...
Watch Now
Murder in Space
1970
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
6/4
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told th...
Watch Now
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
1991
Cape Fear
7.268/3304
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14...
Watch Now
Cape Fear
1963
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
5.7/6
TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own...
Watch Now
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
1973
A Brand New Life
0/0
After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
Watch Now
A Brand New Life
1954
On the Waterfront
7.931/1500
A dim-witted yet kind-hearted boxer, Terry Malloy, who failed to succeed unintentionally lures a man to his death after being tricked by a criminal ca...
Watch Now
On the Waterfront
1978
Rainbow
0/0
The early life and struggles of Judy Garland (portrayed by Andrea McArdle), and of the film star's trials as a youngster in dealing with the movie stu...
Watch Now
Rainbow
1979
Aunt Mary
8/1
The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000...
Watch Now
Aunt Mary
1976
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
6.4/9
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, B...
Watch Now
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1987
Brothers in Blood
5/1
War is Hell... especially NAM. A group of battle weary soldiers in Vietnam are trapped behind enemy lines. There is no way back. No help on the way. I...
Watch Now
Brothers in Blood
1981
People vs. Jean Harris
0/0
This dramatic re-enactment premiered a mere nine weeks after the actual headline-making trial of the refined private school headmistress who was convi...
Watch Now
People vs. Jean Harris
1986
Second Serve
5.4/5
Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashbac...
Watch Now
Second Serve
1962
Conquered City
4.3/3
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed i...
Watch Now
Conquered City
1987
Hunters Are for Killing
4.5/2
A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However, his stepfather, who holds him responsible f...
Watch Now
Hunters Are for Killing
1975
Smiling Maniacs
0/0
During an inquest, an ambitious judge finds out that a lot of high-rank politicians are corrupt to the core.
Watch Now
Smiling Maniacs
1972
Chronicle of a Homicide
5.3/10
Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The investigating...
Watch Now
Chronicle of a Homicide
1980
The Warning
5.4/7
It is a law police officials obey out of fear. A rule chilling in its simplicity. Accept corruption...or die! They have sealed an unholy alliance. The...
Watch Now
The Warning
1974
Trapped Beneath the Sea
5.8/4
Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-subma...
Watch Now
Trapped Beneath the Sea
1979
Gardenia
5/2
A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
Watch Now
Gardenia
1973
Counselor at Crime
5.6/13
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either on...
Watch Now
Counselor at Crime
1958
Marjorie Morningstar
6.2/18
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at...
Watch Now
Marjorie Morningstar
1977
The Storyteller
0/0
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
Watch Now
The Storyteller
1980
There Goes The Bride
0/0
A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't...
Watch Now
There Goes The Bride
1984
The Goodbye People
0/0
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he...
Watch Now
The Goodbye People
1989
Innocent Prey
4/4
A woman living in Dallas discovers that her husband, from New Zealand, is actually a crazed serial killer who murders prostitutes.
Watch Now
Innocent Prey
1979
The House on Garibaldi Street
5.5/2
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
Watch Now
The House on Garibaldi Street
1987
Queenie
4.8/5
Queenie was an ABC miniseries, adapted from the eponymous novel by Michael Korda, which is based loosely on the life of his aunt, actress Merle Oberon...
Watch Now
Queenie
1997
Legend of the Spirit Dog
0/0
A young boy in Alaska becomes involved with the legendary battle between a raven and a wolf.
Watch Now
Legend of the Spirit Dog
1973
La colonna infame
0/0
Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
Watch Now
La colonna infame
1987
Kids Like These
0/0
Bob and Joanna, both over 40 years old, have a baby with the Down syndrome. Their doctor advises them to give the child away, not to "waste their time...
Watch Now
Kids Like These
1996
O. Henry's Christmas
0/0
Three episodes based on O. Henry's texts. The first deals with the friendship between a painter and two young women. The second, a young man who recei...
Watch Now
O. Henry's Christmas
1973
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
6.462/13
After Col. Steve Austin fails to retrieve the contents of a safe owned by arms dealer Arlen Findletter, he takes up an friendly offer of a holiday in...
Watch Now
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
1976
Raid on Entebbe
6/52
Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The...
Watch Now
Raid on Entebbe
1968
Around the World of Mike Todd
6/2
"Around the World with Mike Todd" serves as a summarization of the Todd's career, and his role in producing 'Around the World in 80 Days'. Numerous be...
Watch Now
Around the World of Mike Todd
1957
12 Angry Men
8.541/8269
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of m...
Watch Now
12 Angry Men
1993
La Classe américaine
7.702/208
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...
Watch Now
La Classe américaine
1988
The Child Saver
0/0
Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.
Watch Now
The Child Saver
1983
I Want to Live
4/2
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her partici...
Watch Now
I Want to Live
1970
The Enemy Before Us
0/0
Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can't go home again".
Watch Now
The Enemy Before Us
1949
Concerning a Woman of Sin
0/0
An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief for big money. But he has to conceal the fact that t...
Watch Now
Concerning a Woman of Sin
1957
The Defender (Studio One)
7.2/2
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments...
Watch Now
The Defender (Studio One)
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6/1
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
Watch Now
Night of 100 Stars
1980
The Love Tapes
3/1
At Frank Yost's Good Possibilities, a state-of-the-art videotaping dating service, various clients have misadventures while trying to find the right p...
Watch Now
The Love Tapes
1955
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
0/0
Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry. Television film for The Philco Television Playhouse...
Watch Now
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
1978
The Millionaire
0/0
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a pros...
Watch Now
The Millionaire
1992
The Sands of Time
0/0
Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
Watch Now
The Sands of Time
1995
Unknown Soldier
6/1
In 1943, a group of Italian and Allied soldiers find themselves trapped inside an abandoned villa. When they discover that they are in fact dead and t...
Watch Now
Unknown Soldier
1959
Winterset
0/0
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of t...
Watch Now
Winterset
1979
The Horror Show
6/2
A history of horror movies.
Watch Now
The Horror Show
1944
Winged Victory
5.5/2
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with...
Watch Now
Winged Victory
1993
24 Hour Psycho
4/2
24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred...
Watch Now
24 Hour Psycho
1979
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
6/1
A young woman volunteers to carry an embryo transplant for a couple that has tried and failed to have a baby. Soon, however, she begins to have second...
Watch Now
The Seeding of Sarah Burns
1958
Bomber's Moon
0/0
A hard-hearted Colonel loses many men in his group's bombing missions over World War Two Germany, but keeps on going and won't tolerate lightly a youn...
Watch Now
Bomber's Moon
2014
Psychos
0/0
Steven Soderbergh’s mash-up of Alfred Hitchcock’s original Psycho and Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake.
Watch Now
Psychos
1952
The Living Bible
6/1
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
Watch Now