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Martin Balsam
4 November 1919
Martin Balsam played in 26 movies in the Drama, War, Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Music, Crime, Action, Western, Adventure, History, Mystery, Biography, Sci-Fi, Fantasy genres.
Martin Balsam got succeed with average imdb rating 7.
Bronx-raised actor Martin Balsam was the oldest of three children of a ladies' sportswear salesman. "Actors are bums" was dad's compensation when Balsam announced his target of affluent into demonstration affair; tranquillity, progeny Martin took full advantage of lunch breaks from his "heartfelt" jobs to run through for amateur theatricals. After World Cross swords II, Balsam joined Hip York's Actors Studio, supporting himself away waiting on tables and ushering at Radio City Music Au
... ditorium. During his formative years he was briefly married to actress Joyce Van Patten; their daughter Talia Balsam would later evolve into a successful vapour and TV performer. Working steadily if not profitably in nightclubs and TV, Balsam made his chief cloud, the Actors Studio-dominated On the Waterfront, in 1954. Averaging a movie and/or a attention a year starting in 1957 (to each his conquer-known take roles were Juror #1 in Twelve Angry Men [1957] and the unfortunate detective Arbogast in Psycho [1960]), Balsam went on to win a Tony through despite the Broadway play I Recognize You Can't Ascertain Me When the Unworkable's Perpetual, an Obie for the off-Broadway creation Cold-hearted Storage, and an Academy Bestowal in place of his deportment as Jason Robards' older buddy in the 1965 cover type of A Thousand Clowns. Unfortunately for Balsam, the Oscar was as much a curse as a blessing on his career, and happily he was playing little more than variations on his Thousand Clowns r“le.
In 1979, he was engaged nigh Norman Lear to play the field pretend "cuddly bigot" Archie Bunker's acerbic Jewish area helpmate Murray Klein on the CBS sitcom Archie Bunker's Section; he remained with the series until 1981. In 1991, Balsam appeared in Martin Scorsese's Peninsula Fear, the remake of a film in which Balsam had co-starred (in an to a T different r“le) in 1962.
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