Martin Balsam

Martin Balsam is an American actor of theater, cinema and television. He was born on November 4th 1919 with New York in the district from the Bronx and he died on February 13rd, 1996 with Rome of an heart attack. He was useful in the air force.

Biography

Member of the Actors Studio of Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg, it carries out his beginnings with the cinema in 1954 in One the will waterfront of Elia Kazan. It is however its second film Twelve angry men which will reveal it with the public (It holds the role of the president of the jury). But it is especially known to have interpreted the role of the Arbogast private detective in Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960). It will turn much of films in Italie.
It will obtain to a Oscar for clowns per thousands ( Thousand Clowns ) of Fred Coe in 1965.

Catalog of films

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