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).
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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | The Silence of the Hams (1994) | Det. Martin Balsam | 6 | |
| 2 | La Classe américaine (1993) | Callaghan (archive footage) | 6 | |
| 3 | Cape Fear (1991) | Judge | 7.1 | |
| 4 | Two Evil Eyes (1990) | Mr. Pym | 6.7 | |
| 5 | The Delta Force (1986) | Ben Kaplan | 4.9 | |
| 6 | St. Elmo's Fire (1985) | Mr. Beamish | 6.2 | |
| 7 | Death Wish 3 (1985) | Bennett Cross | 6 | |
| 8 | Cuba (1979) | Gen. Bello | - | - |
| 9 | Blood and Diamonds (1978) | Rizzo | - | - |
| 10 | The Sentinel (1977) | Prof. Ruzinsky | 6.6 | |
| 11 | Raid on Entebbe (1976) | Daniel Cooper | 5 | |
| 12 | Two-Minute Warning (1976) | Sam McKeever | - | - |
| 13 | All the President's Men (1976) | Howard Simons | 7.7 | |
| 14 | Mitchell (1975) | James Arthur Cummings | 1 | |
| 15 | Cry, Onion! (1975) | Petrus Lamb | 5 | |
| 16 | Miles To Go Before I Sleep (1975) | Ben Montgomery | - | - |
| 17 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) | Green | 7.4 | |
| 18 | Murder on the Orient Express (1974) | Signor Bianchi | 7.1 | |
| 19 | The Six Million Dollar Man (1973) | Dr. Rudy Wells | 7 | |
| 20 | The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973) | Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage) | - | - |
| 21 | The Man (1972) | Jim Talley | - | - |
| 22 | The Hassled Hooker (1972) | District Attorney Turrisi | - | - |
| 23 | The Anderson Tapes (1971) | Haskins | 5.5 | |
| 24 | Confessions of a Police Captain (1971) | Commissario Bonavia | 7 | |
| 25 | Little Big Man (1970) | Mr. Merriweather | 7.2 | |
| 26 | Catch-22 (1970) | Col. Cathcart | 6 | |
| 27 | Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) | Admiral Husband E. Kimmel | 7 | |
| 28 | The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) | Mayor Wilker | - | - |
| 29 | Me, Natalie (1969) | Uncle Harold | 5 | |
| 30 | Hombre (1967) | Henry Mendez | 7 | |
| 31 | After the Fox (1966) | Harry | 6 | |
| 32 | The Bedford Incident (1965) | Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N. | 6 | |
| 33 | A Thousand Clowns (1965) | Arnold | 4 | |
| 34 | The Carpetbaggers (1964) | Bernard B. Norman | - | - |
| 35 | Seven Days in May (1964) | Paul Girard | 7 | |
| 36 | Cape Fear (1962) | Police Chief Mark Dutton | 7.1 | |
| 37 | Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) | O.J. Berman | 7.2 | |
| 38 | Everybody Go Home! (1960) | Sergente Quintino Fornaciari | 4 | |
| 39 | Psycho (1960) | Milton Arbogast | 8.3 | |
| 40 | Al Capone (1959) | Mac Keeley, reporter | 4 | |
| 41 | 12 Angry Men (1957) | Juror 1 | 8.7 | |
| 42 | On the Waterfront (1954) | Gillette (uncredited) | 7.5 |
