Died 1996-02-13.
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Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He had a prolific career in character roles in film, in theatre, and on television. 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 perfor…
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entertainment · American actor (1919–1996) · character actor · stage actor · film actor · television actor · actor · also Martin Balsam, Balsam
Born 4 November 1919 · Died 13 February 1996 · Q312107
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1996· 2 entries
Balsam died of a stroke in his hotel room while vacationing in Rome, Italy
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1987· 1 entry
They had two children, Adam and Zoe Balsam, and divorced in 1987.
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1975· 1 entry
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
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1968).
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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
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A Thousand Clowns (1966).
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Carpetbaggers (1964).
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1960· 2 entries
When he starred in the Luigi Comencini film Everybody Go Home
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Appeared in one of his best-remembered roles as private investigator Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, culminating in a scene in which Mrs
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1951· 1 entry
Balsam married his first wife, actress Pearl Somner
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1919· 1 entry
Born 1919-11-04.
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