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Martin Balsam | |
|---|---|
 Balsam in the 1960s | |
| Born | Martin Henry Balsam November 4, 1919 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | February 13, 1996 (aged 76) Rome, Italy |
| Resting place | Cedar Park Cemetery, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | The New School |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1947–1995 |
| Notable work | See list |
| Spouses |
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| Children | 3, including Talia |
| Awards | See list |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch | United States Army (Army Air Forces) |
| Service years | 1941–1945 |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Conflicts | |
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996)[1] was an American actor. He had a prolific career in character roles in film, in theatre, and on television.[2][3] An early member of the Actors Studio, he began his career on the New York stage, winning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1968). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Thousand Clowns (1965).
His other notable film roles include Juror #1 in 12 Angry Men (1957), private detective Milton Arbogast in Psycho (1960), Hollywood agent O.J. Berman in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Bernard B. Norman in The Carpetbaggers (1964), Lieutenant Commander Chester Potter, the ship doctor, in The Bedford Incident (1965), Colonel Cathcart in Catch-22 (1970), Admiral Husband E. Kimmel in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Mr. Green in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Signor Bianchi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Howard Simons in All the President's Men (1976). He had a recurring role as Dr. Milton Orloff on the television drama Dr. Kildare (1963–66), and Murray Klein on the sitcom Archie Bunker's Place (1979–83).
In addition to his Oscar and Tony Awards, Balsam was also a BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Emmy Award nominee. With Joyce Van Patten, he was the father of actress Talia Balsam.
Early life and education
[edit]Martin Henry Balsam was born November 4, 1919, in the Bronx borough of New York City, to Russian Jewish parents, Lillian (née Weinstein) and Alberto Balsam, who was a manufacturer of shampoo.[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 from 1941 to 1945 during World War II, achieving the rank of Sergeant.[6] He served as a sergeant radio operator in a B-24 in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations.[4]
Career
[edit]
Theatre
[edit]Balsam made his professional debut in August 1941 in a production of The Play's the Thing in Locust Valley.[7] After World War II, he resumed his acting career in New York.
In 1947–1949, Balsam was a resident member of the summer stock company Town Hall Players[8][9] in West Newbury, Massachusetts, a community-sponsored summer theatre.[10] In early 1948, he was selected by Elia Kazan to be a member in the recently formed Actors Studio.[11] He appeared consistently in Broadway and off-Broadway plays, something he would continue to do well into his screen acting career. Columnist Earl Wilson dubbed him "The Bronx Barrymore".[12]
In 1968, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the 1967 Broadway production of You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.[citation needed]
Television
[edit]Balsam performed 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 Route 66 episode, "Somehow It Gets To Be Tomorrow"; The Twilight Zone as a psychologist in the 1958 pilot episode "The Time Element", and appearing in the episodes "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" and "The New Exhibit"; 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 in the two-part Murder, She Wrote episode, "Death Stalks the Big Top".
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. In 1975, he appeared as James Arthur Cummins in the Joe Don Baker police drama Mitchell, a film that was eventually featured in an episode of the film parody series Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1993. He appeared as a spokesman/hostage in the TV movie Raid on Entebbe (1976) and as a detective in the TV movie Contract on Cherry Street (1977), starring Frank Sinatra. He also appeared on an episode of Quincy, M.E.. 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.
Film
[edit]Balsam made his film debut with an uncredited role in On the Waterfront (1954), directed by his Actors Studio colleague Elia Kazan. Balsam played an official of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey investigating mob involvement in the city's waterfront unions. His breakthrough role came a few years later, when he played Juror #1 in 12 Angry Men (1957). He would collaborate with the film's director, Sidney Lumet, twice more with The Anderson Tapes (1971) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
In 1960, he appeared in one of his best-remembered roles as private investigator Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, culminating in a scene in which Mrs. Bates chases him down a flight of stairs to stab him to death. Along with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, 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). Balsam also performed the original voice of the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He told a journalist in August 1966, "I'm not actually seen in the picture at any time, but I sure create a lot of excitement projecting my voice through that machine. And I'm getting an Academy Award winner price for doing it, too."[13] 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.[14]
Balsam also appeared in such notable films as Time Limit with Richard Widmark, Breakfast at Tiffany's with Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, The Carpetbaggers with George Peppard and Alan Ladd, Seven Days in May with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, The Bedford Incident with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, The Man with James Earl Jones, Hombre with Paul Newman and Fredric March, Catch-22 with Alan Arkin and Jon Voight, Tora! Tora! Tora! (as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel), Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three with Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, All the President's Men with Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, The Delta Force with Lee Marvin, and The Goodbye People. One of his final acting appearances was in the 1994 horror parody The Silence of the Hams, which paid homage to his iconic role in Psycho.
Beyond Hollywood, Balsam was also a popular character actor in Italian films, beginning in 1960 when he starred in the Luigi Comencini film Everybody Go Home. He would star in several poliziottesco films throughout the 1970s, directed by the likes of Fernando Di Leo and Enzo G. Castellari. Balsam's roles in these films would be re-dubbed into Italian, but he would loop his own lines in the English-language export versions. Balsam maintained close ties to Italy even after the end of the poliziottesco trend, traveling there for both professional and personal reasons, and starring in the Italian-produced television series Ocean and La piovra.
Personal life
[edit]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) with 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]
Death
[edit]On February 13, 1996, Balsam died of a stroke in his hotel room while vacationing in Rome, Italy. He was 76 years old. He is interred at Cedar Park Cemetery, in Emerson, New Jersey.[15]
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | On the Waterfront | Gillette, Secondary Investigator for Crime Commission | Uncredited |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Juror #1 | |
| Time Limit | Sergeant Baker | ||
| 1958 | Marjorie Morningstar | Dr. David Harris | |
| 1959 | Al Capone | Mac Keeley | |
| Middle of the Night | Jack | ||
| Brenner | Arnold Joplin | ||
| Winterset | Garth | ||
| 1960 | Goodyear Theater | Joe Lane | |
| The Robert Herridge Theater | |||
| Psycho | Detective Milton Arbogast | ||
| Tutti a casa | Sergeant Quintino Fornaciari | ||
| 1961 | Way Out | Bill Clayton | |
| Ada | Steve Jackson | ||
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | O.J. Berman | ||
| 1962 | Cape Fear | Police Chief Mark Dutton | |
| Target: The Corruptors | Jeffrey Marvin | ||
| La città prigioniera | Joseph Feinberg | ||
| 1963 | Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? | Sanford Kaufman | |
| 1964 | Seven Days in May | Presidential aide Paul Girard | |
| Suspense | Detective Jack Gross | ||
| The Carpetbaggers | Bernard B. Norman | ||
| Youngblood Hawke | Cameo Appearance | Uncredited | |
| 1965 | Harlow | Everett Redman | |
| The Bedford Incident | Lieutenant Commander Chester Potter, USNR, MD | ||
| A Thousand Clowns | Arnold | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor | |
| 1966 | Caccia alla volpe | Harry Granoff | |
| "Anyone Around My Base Is It" | Narrator | Short Documentary | |
| 1967 | Hombre | Mendez | |
| Among the Paths to Eden | Ivor Belli | ||
| 1969 | Me, Natalie | Harold Miller | |
| The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | Mayor Wilker | ||
| Trilogy | Ivor Belli | (segment: "Among the Paths to Eden") | |
| 1970 | Catch-22 | Colonel Cathcart | Group Commander, 256th Bomb Group |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | Admiral Husband E. Kimmel | ||
| 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 | ||
| The Infamous Column | |||
| 1973 | The Stone Killer | Al Vescari | |
| Counselor at Crime | Don Antonio Macaluso | ||
| Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Harry Walden | ||
| 1974 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Harold "Green" Longman | |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Bianchi | ||
| 1975 | Smiling Maniacs | Carlo Goja | |
| Cry, Onion! | Petrus Lamb | ||
| Mitchell | James Arthur Cummings | ||
| Season for Assassins | Commissioner Katroni | ||
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Howard Simons | |
| Meet Him and Die | Giulianelli | ||
| Death Rage | Commissario | ||
| Two-Minute Warning | Sam McKeever | ||
| 1977 | The Sentinel | Professor Ruzinsky | |
| Silver Bears | Joe Fiore | ||
| 1978 | Blood and Diamonds | Rizzo | |
| Eyes Behind the Stars | Inspector Jim Grant | ||
| 1979 | Gardenia | Salluzzo | |
| Cuba | General Bello | ||
| 1980 | The Love Tapes | David Franklin | |
| There Goes the Bride | Elmer Babcock | ||
| The Warning | Questore Martorana | ||
| 1981 | The Salamander | Captain Steffanelli | |
| 1984 | The Goodbye People | Max Silverman | |
| Innocent Prey | Sheriff Virgil Baker | ||
| 1985 | St. Elmo's Fire | Mr. Beamish | |
| Death Wish 3 | Bennett | ||
| 1986 | The Delta Force | Ben Kaplan | |
| Whatever It Takes | Hap Perchicksky | ||
| 1987 | Hotel | Dr. Gilbert Holt | |
| P.I. Private Investigations | Cliff Dowling | ||
| Brothers in Blood | Major Briggs | ||
| 1988 | The Brother from Space | Father Howard | |
| 1990 | Two Evil Eyes | Mr. Pym | (segment "The Black Cat") |
| 1991 | Ľultima meta | Lawyer | |
| Cape Fear | Judge | ||
| 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 (final film role) |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Suspense | Abramson | Episode: "The Third One" |
| 1949-1950 | Actors Studio | Soldier | 4 episodes |
| 1950 | Danger | 2 episodes | |
| 1950-1951 | The Big Story | Bill Pinney | |
| 1951 | The Living Christ Series | Innkeeper | Miniseries |
| 1953 | Man Against Crime | Tony/Jean Pinay | 2 episodes |
| 1953-1956 | Goodyear Television Playhouse | Various | 4 episodes |
| 1954 | The Greatest Gift | Harold Matthews #2 | |
| 1954-1955 | The Philco Television Playhouse | Charlie Malick / Mike Galloway | 3 episodes |
| 1955 | Frontiers of Faith | Episode: "Bible Detective in the Holy Land" | |
| The United States Steel Hour | Petty Officer | Episode: "Freighter" | |
| Valiant Lady | Joey Gordon | Season 1 | |
| 1957-1958 | Studio One | Francis Toohey/Ed Coyne | 2 episodes |
| 1958 | Kraft Television Theatre | Dino | Episode: "Dog in a Bush Tunnel" |
| Father Knows Best | Teacher | Episode: "A Matter of Pride" | |
| Pursuit | Holden | Episode: "Ticket to Tangier" | |
| Decoy | Episode: "Night Light" | ||
| 1958-1959 | Playhouse 90 | Various | 3 episodes |
| Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Gambetta/Dr. Gillespie | 2 episodes | |
| 1958-1960 | Have Gun – Will Travel | Marshall Jim Brock/Charles Dawes | |
| 1958-1961 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Eldon Marsh/Leonard Thompson | |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Father Fabian | Episode: "Incident at Alabaster Plain" |
| The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen | Costa Starchos | 2 episodes | |
| The DuPont Show of the Month | Charlie Davis | Episode: "Body and Soul" | |
| Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Sam Butler | Episode: "The Lone Woman" | |
| 1959-1962 | Naked City | Various | 5 episodes |
| 1959-1963 | The Twilight Zone | Danny Weiss/Martin Lombard Senescu | Episodes: "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" and "The New Exhibit" |
| 1960 | Five Fingers | Monteverdi | Episode: "The Search for Edvard Stoyan" |
| NBC Sunday Showcase | Nicola Sacco | Episode: Sacco-Vanzetti Story | |
| 1961 | The New Breed | Frank Eberhardt | Episode: "Lady Killer" |
| 1961-1962 | The Untouchables | Barry Leimer/Arnold Justin | 2 episodes |
| 1961-1963 | Route 66 | Corelli/Mike | |
| 1962-1966 | The Defenders | Various | 4 episodes |
| Dr. Kildare | 7 episodes | ||
| 1962 | Cain's Hundred | Jack Garsell | Episode: "Take a Number: Jack Garsell" |
| 1963 | The Eleventh Hour | Frank Dunlear | Episode: "Something Crazy's Going on in the Back Room" |
| Breaking Point | Rabbi Eli Oringer | Episode: "A Pelican in the Wilderness" | |
| 1964 | Arrest and Trial | Leo Valera | Episode: "Signals of an Ancient Flame" |
| Espionage | Richard Carey | Episode: "Final Decision" | |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Dave Breslaw | Episode: "Two is the Number" | |
| Wagon Train | Marcey Jones | Episode: "The Whipping" | |
| Mr. Broadway | Nate Bannerman | Episode: "Something to Sing About" | |
| 1965 | ITV Play of the Week | Doc Delaney | Episode: "Come Back, Little Sheba" |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E | Albert Sully | Episode: "The Odd Man Affair" | |
| 12 O'Clock High | Army Doctor (uncredited) | Episode: "Big Brother" | |
| 1967 | The Fugitive | Andrew Newmark | Episode: "There Goes the Ball Game" |
| 1968-1970 | The Name of the Game | Angie | 2 episodes |
| 1970 | CBS Playhouse | Jesse | Episode: "The Day Before Sunday" |
| Hunters Are for Killing | Wade Hamilton | TV movie | |
| The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Stanley Pulska | ||
| 1973 | A Brand New Life | Jim Douglas | |
| Police Story | Detective Al Koster | Episode: "Man on a Rack" | |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | Dr. Rudy Wells | TV movie: "The Moon and the Desert" | |
| 1974 | Trapped Beneath the Sea | T.C. Hollister | TV movie |
| Kojak | Ray Kaufman | Episode: "A Killing in the Second House" | |
| 1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Edward J. Reilly | TV movie |
| Maude | Chester | Episode: "Maude and Chester" | |
| Raid on Entebbe | Daniel Cooper | TV movie | |
| 1977 | Contract on Cherry Street | ||
| 1978 | Rainbow | Louis B. Mayer | |
| 1979 | The House on Garibaldi Street | Isser Harel | |
| 1979-1983 | Archie Bunker's Place | Murray Klein | 46 episodes |
| 1981 | The People vs. Jean Harris | Joel Aurnou | TV movie |
| 1982 | Quincy, M.E. | Hyam Sigerski | Episode: "Stolen Tears" |
| Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Nathan Burkan | TV movie | |
| 1985 | Space | Senator Glancey | |
| Murder in Space | Alexander Rostuv | ||
| Great Performances | Jack | Episode: "Grown-Ups" | |
| Glitter | Bo | Episode: "The Runaway" | |
| 1986-1989 | La piovra | Frank Carrisi/Don Calogero Barretta | 6 episodes |
| 1986 | Second Serve | Dr. Beck | TV movie |
| Murder, She Wrote | Edgar Carmody | Episode: "Death Stalks the Big Top" | |
| 1986-1987 | The Twilight Zone | Rockne O'Bannon/Professor Donald Knowles | Segments: "Personal Demons" and "Voices in the Earth" |
| 1987 | Queenie | Marty | Miniseries |
| 1989 | Ocean | Don Matias Quintero | |
| 1990 | Midnight Caller | Gil Solarski | Episode: "Old Friends" |
Awards and nominations
[edit]Award
|
Wins
|
Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 2 | |
| 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 |
Academy Awards
[edit]| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Best Supporting Actor | A Thousand Clowns | Won |
Tony Awards
[edit]| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Best Actor in a Play | You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running | Won |
BAFTA Awards
[edit]| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Nominated |
| 1977 | All the President's Men | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards
[edit]| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Nominated |
Primetime Emmy Awards
[edit]| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | Raid on Entebbe | Nominated |
National Board of Review|National Board of Review Awards
[edit]| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Best Supporting Actor | The Carpetbaggers | Won |
Drama Desk Awards
[edit]| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Cold Storage | Nominated |
Obie Award
[edit]| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Distinguished Performance by an Actor | Cold Storage | Won |
Outer Critics Circle Awards
[edit]| Year | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Cold Storage | Won |
| 1978 | The Shock of Recognition | Won |
References
[edit]- ^ "Balsam, Martin Henry". Who Was Who in America : with World Notables, v. XI (1993–96). New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who. 1996. p. 13. ISBN 0837902258.
- ^ OLIVER, MYRNA (February 14, 1996). "Martin Balsam; Veteran Character Actor" – via LA Times.
- ^ Gelder, Lawrence Van (February 14, 1996). "Martin Balsam Is Dead at 76; Ubiquitous Character Actor". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c d Van Gelder, Lawrence (February 14, 1996). "Martin Balsam Is Dead at 76; Ubiquitous Character Actor". The New York Times. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ "Great Character Actors". Archived from the original on November 15, 2008. Retrieved July 29, 2007.
- ^ Martin Balsam, Service Record. Together We Served. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
- ^ Herbert, Ian, ed. (June 1, 1981). "BALSAM, Martin". Who's Who in the Theatre. Vol. 1. Gale Research Company. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-0-8103-0235-8.
- ^ Coit, Margaret (September 9, 1947). "Intense Emotional Experience Provided by Steinbeck Drama". The Newburyport Daily News and Newburyport Herald. p. 1. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ "Town Hall Audience Is Responsive: 'My Sister Eileen' Has Laughs Galore". The Newburyport Daily News and Newburyport Herald. July 26, 1949. p. 1. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ "Communities Should Develop and Enrich Cultural Existence". The Newburyport Daily News and Newburyport Herald. June 4, 1947.
- ^ Garfield, David (1980). "Birth of The Actors Studio: 1947–50". A Player's Place: The Story of the Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-0254-2650-4.
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.
- ^ Wakin, Daniel J. "Actor Martin Balsam Found Dead at Rome Hotel". Associated Press. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ Flahive, Gerry (March 30, 2018). "The Story of a Voice: HAL in '2001' Wasn't Always So Eerily Calm". The New York Times.
- ^ Flahive, Gerry (March 30, 2018). "The Story of a Voice: HAL in '2001' Wasn't Always So Eerily Calm". The New York Times.
- ^ Strauss, Robert (March 28, 2004). "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place". The New York Times.
External links
[edit]
- Martin Balsam at IMDb
- Martin Balsam at the Internet Broadway Database
- Martin Balsam at Find a Grave
- Martin Balsam at the Internet Off-Broadway Database (archived)
- Martin Balsam at the TCM Movie Database
