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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 performance in A Thousand Clowns (1965).
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The Silence of the Hams
1994 · as Det. Martin Balsam

Cape Fear
1991 · as Judge

Two Evil Eyes
1990 · as Mr. Pym

The Delta Force
1986 · as Ben Kaplan

St. Elmo's Fire
1985 · as Mr. Beamish

Death Wish 3
1985 · as Bennett Cross

Cuba
1979 · as Gen. Bello

The Sentinel
1977 · as Prof. Ruzinsky

All the President's Men
1976 · as Howard Simons

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974 · as Green

Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · as Signor Bianchi

Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

Catch-22
1970 · as Col. Cathcart

Little Big Man
1970 · as Mr. Merriweather

Hombre
1967 · as Henry Mendez

Cape Fear
1962 · as Police Chief Mark Dutton

Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961

Psycho
1960