page_title: Martin Balsam
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Martin Balsam / Career
caption_attribution_description: San Marino, Steve Scott and Academy Award Winner Martin Balsam on the set of "Unknown Soldier"
context_page_description: Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor who 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. His best known film roles include Juror #1 in 12 Angry Men, detective Milton Arbogast in Psycho, Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns, Colonel Cathcart in Catch-22, Mr. Green in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Signor Bianchi in Murder on the Orient Express, and Howard Simons in All the President's Men. He also had a starring role as Murray Klein in the television sitcom Archie Bunker's Place.
caption: Martin Balsam (r) on the set of Unknown Soldier, 1995