Martin Balsam: movies and TV shows
Martin Balsam has 179 credits in the archive: 115 films and 64 TV series, from 1944 to 2015. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2015 · busiest year: 1961 (13 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | True Fear: The Making of Psycho | Self | Film | — | 95 |
| 2000 | All About 'The Birds' | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 80 |
| 1997 | Legend of the Spirit Dog | Gramps | Film | 6.0 | 77 |
| 1996 | O. Henry's Christmas | Film | 5.0 | 76 | |
| 1995 | Unknown Soldier | Priest | Film | 8.0 | 75 |
| 1994 | The Silence of the Hams | Det. Martin Balsam | Film | 4.9 | 74 |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | Callaghan (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 73 |
| 1992 | The Sands of Time | Father Sorendo | Film | 10.0 | 72 |
| 1991 | Cape Fear | Judge | Film | 7.3 | 71 |
| 1990 | Two Evil Eyes | Mr. Pym | Film | 6.1 | 70 |
| 1990 | The Last Match | Lawyer | Film | 5.8 | 70 |
| 1989 | Oceano | Don Matias Quintero | TV | 7.0 | 69 |
| 1988 | Midnight Caller | Gil Solarski | TV | 7.6 | 68 |
| 1988 | The Brother from Space | Frather Howard | Film | 4.0 | 68 |
| 1988 | The Child Saver | Sidney Rosenberg | Film | 7.5 | 68 |
| 1987 | Kids Like These | Grandpa | Film | 9.0 | 67 |
| 1987 | P.I. Private Investigations | Cliff Dowling | Film | 5.1 | 67 |
| 1987 | Brothers in Blood | Film | 7.0 | 67 | |
| 1987 | Once Again | Gerald | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 1986 | The Delta Force | Ben Kaplan | Film | 6.0 | 66 |
| 1986 | Second Serve | Dr. Beck | Film | 5.3 | 66 |
| 1986 | Whatever it Takes | Hap Perchicksky | Film | — | 66 |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone | Rockne S. O'Bannon (segment "Personal Demons") | TV | 7.7 | 65 |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone | Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth") | TV | 7.7 | 65 |
| 1985 | Death Wish 3 | Bennett Cross | Film | 6.2 | 65 |
| 1985 | Space | Senator Glancey | TV | 7.7 | 65 |
| 1985 | St. Elmo's Fire | Mr. Beamish | Film | 6.1 | 65 |
| 1985 | Murder in Space | Alexander Rostov | Film | 5.3 | 65 |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Edgar Carmody | TV | 7.5 | 64 |
| 1984 | The Octopus | Frank Carrisi | TV | 7.8 | 64 |
| 1984 | Innocent Prey | Sheriff Virgil Baker | Film | 4.3 | 64 |
| 1984 | The Goodbye People | Max Silverman | Film | 10.0 | 64 |
| 1983 | I Want to Live | Jack Brady | Film | 4.8 | 63 |
| 1982 | Hotel | TV | 6.8 | 62 | |
| 1982 | Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady | Film | 6.0 | 62 | |
| 1982 | Night of 100 Stars | Self | Film | 5.8 | 62 |
| 1982 | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | Nathan Burkan | TV | 5.8 | 62 |
| 1981 | The Salamander | Captain Steffanelli | Film | 5.4 | 61 |
| 1981 | People vs. Jean Harris | Joel Aurnou | Film | — | 61 |
| 1980 | The Warning | Questore Martorana | Film | 5.4 | 60 |
| 1980 | There Goes The Bride | Elmer Babcock | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1980 | The Love Tapes | David Franklin | Film | 6.5 | 60 |
| 1979 | Archie Bunker's Place | Murray Klein | TV | 6.5 | 59 |
| 1979 | Cuba | Gen. Bello | Film | 5.5 | 59 |
| 1979 | Aunt Mary | Harry Strasberg | Film | 7.3 | 59 |
| 1979 | Gardenia | Salluzzo | Film | 6.1 | 59 |
| 1979 | The House on Garibaldi Street | Isser Harel | Film | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1979 | The Horror Show | (archive footage) | Film | 3.4 | 59 |
| 1979 | The Seeding of Sarah Burns | Dr. Samuel Melman | Film | 7.5 | 59 |
| 1979 | All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman | Self | Film | — | 59 |
| 1978 | Eyes Behind the Stars | Inspector Jim Grant | Film | 4.7 | 58 |
| 1978 | Siege | Henry Fancher | Film | 6.8 | 58 |
| 1978 | Rainbow | Louis B. Mayer | Film | 10.0 | 58 |
| 1978 | Blood and Diamonds | Rizzo | Film | 6.6 | 58 |
| 1978 | The Millionaire | Arthur Haines | Film | 8.0 | 58 |
| 1977 | Silver Bears | Joe Fiore | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 1977 | The Sentinel | Prof. Ruzinsky | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 1977 | Contract on Cherry Street | Ernie Weinberg | Film | 6.8 | 57 |
| 1977 | The Storyteller | Ira Davidoff | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Hyam Zgierski | TV | 7.5 | 56 |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Howard Simons | Film | 7.7 | 56 |
| 1976 | Death Rage | Commissario | Film | 5.4 | 56 |
| 1976 | Two-Minute Warning | Sam McKeever | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1976 | Raid on Entebbe | Daniel Cooper | Film | 6.0 | 56 |
| 1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Edward J. Reilly | Film | 6.5 | 56 |
| 1976 | Meet Him and Die | Giulianelli | Film | 5.7 | 56 |
| 1975 | Cry, Onion! | Petrus Lamb | Film | 5.3 | 55 |
| 1975 | Death Among Friends | Ham Russell Buckner | Film | 4.9 | 55 |
| 1975 | Miles To Go Before I Sleep | Ben Montgomery | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 1975 | Smiling Maniacs | Carlo Goja | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1975 | Mitchell | James Arthur Cummings | Film | 3.3 | 55 |
| 1975 | Season for Assassins | Commissioner Katroni | Film | 4.3 | 55 |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Signor Bianchi | Film | 7.1 | 54 |
| 1974 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Green | Film | 7.5 | 54 |
| 1974 | Trapped Beneath the Sea | T.C. Hollister | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 1973 | Kojak | Ray Kaufman | TV | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1973 | Police Story | TV | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 1973 | The Stone Killer | Al Vescari | Film | 6.1 | 53 |
| 1973 | Counselor at Crime | Don Antonio Macaluso | Film | 5.6 | 53 |
| 1973 | The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War | Dr. Rudy Wells (uncredited) (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 53 |
| 1973 | A Brand New Life | Jim Douglas | Film | 9.0 | 53 |
| 1973 | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Harry Walden | Film | 5.6 | 53 |
| 1973 | The Six Million Dollar Man | Dr. Rudy Wells | Film | 6.7 | 53 |
| 1973 | La colonna infame | Film | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 1972 | The Man | Jim Talley | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 1972 | Night of Terror | Capt. Caleb Sark | Film | 6.1 | 52 |
| 1972 | The Hassled Hooker | District Attorney Turrisi | Film | 6.3 | 52 |
| 1972 | Chronicle of a Homicide | Giudice Aldo Sola | Film | 5.5 | 52 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Jack | TV | 6.1 | 51 |
| 1971 | The Anderson Tapes | Haskins | Film | 6.1 | 51 |
| 1971 | Confessions of a Police Captain | Commissario Bonavia | Film | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1970 | Catch-22 | Col. Cathcart | Film | 6.7 | 50 |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Admiral Husband E. Kimmel | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 1970 | Little Big Man | Mr. Merriweather | Film | 7.4 | 50 |
| 1970 | The Enemy Before Us | Angie | Film | — | 50 |
| 1970 | Hunters Are for Killing | Wade Hamilton | Film | 6.0 | 50 |
| 1970 | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Stanley Pulska | Film | 6.8 | 50 |
| 1969 | Me, Natalie | Uncle Harold | Film | 5.6 | 49 |
| 1969 | The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | Mayor Wilker | Film | 5.6 | 49 |
| 1969 | Trilogy | Ivor Belli | Film | 6.2 | 49 |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game | Herb Witmer | TV | 7.0 | 48 |
| 1968 | Around the World of Mike Todd | Michael Todd (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 48 |
| 1967 | Hombre | Henry Mendez | Film | 7.1 | 47 |
| 1966 | CBS Playhouse | Jesse Rothenberg | TV | 7.0 | 46 |
| 1966 | After the Fox | Harry | Film | 6.1 | 46 |
| 1965 | The Bedford Incident | Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter, M.D., U.S.N. | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1965 | A Thousand Clowns | Arnold | Film | 6.9 | 45 |
| 1965 | Harlow | Everett Redman | Film | 5.6 | 45 |
| 1964 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Albert Sully | TV | 7.1 | 44 |
| 1964 | 12 O'Clock High | Army Doctor (uncredited) | TV | 7.2 | 44 |
| 1964 | The Carpetbaggers | Bernard B. Norman | Film | 5.9 | 44 |
| 1964 | Seven Days in May | Paul Girard | Film | 7.3 | 44 |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Andrew Newmark | TV | 7.3 | 43 |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Dave Breslaw | TV | 5.9 | 43 |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial | Leo Valera | TV | 8.3 | 43 |
| 1963 | Espionage | Richard Carey | TV | 10.0 | 43 |
| 1963 | Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? | Sanford Kaufman | Film | 6.1 | 43 |
| 1962 | The Eleventh Hour | TV | 6.7 | 42 | |
| 1962 | Conquered City | Joseph Feinberg | Film | 5.5 | 42 |
| 1962 | Cape Fear | Police Chief Mark Dutton | Film | 7.5 | 42 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 41 |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Ned Lacey | TV | 5.7 | 41 |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Benny Orloff | TV | 5.7 | 41 |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Milton Orloff | TV | 5.7 | 41 |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Carl Noyes | TV | 5.7 | 41 |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Floyd Harker | TV | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Bernard Maxwell | TV | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1961 | The Defenders | District Attorney | TV | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1961 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | O.J. Berman | Film | 7.6 | 41 |
| 1961 | Cain's Hundred | Jack Garsell | TV | 5.3 | 41 |
| 1961 | The New Breed | Frank Eberhardt | TV | 7.7 | 41 |
| 1961 | Target: The Corruptors! | TV | 5.7 | 41 | |
| 1961 | Ada | Steve Jackson | Film | 6.5 | 41 |
| 1960 | Route 66 | TV | 6.7 | 40 | |
| 1960 | Psycho | Milton Arbogast | Film | 8.4 | 40 |
| 1960 | Everybody Go Home! | Sergente Quintino Fornaciari | Film | 7.6 | 40 |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Danny Weiss | TV | 8.5 | 39 |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Martin Lombard Senescu | TV | 8.5 | 39 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Father Fabian | TV | 7.2 | 39 |
| 1959 | The Untouchables | Arnold Justin | TV | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1959 | Middle of the Night | Jack Englander | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1959 | Al Capone | Mac Keeley, reporter | Film | 6.6 | 39 |
| 1959 | Winterset | Garth | Film | 9.0 | 39 |
| 1958 | Naked City | Arnold Fleischman | TV | 5.7 | 38 |
| 1958 | Naked City | Caldwell Wyatt | TV | 5.7 | 38 |
| 1958 | Naked City | Captain Russel Barris | TV | 5.7 | 38 |
| 1958 | Naked City | Joseph Creeley | TV | 5.7 | 38 |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | TV | 6.3 | 38 | |
| 1958 | Marjorie Morningstar | Dr. David Harris | Film | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1958 | Bomber's Moon | Captain Joe Reardon | Film | — | 38 |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | TV | 7.3 | 37 | |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | Marshal Jim Brock | TV | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Juror 1 | Film | 8.6 | 37 |
| 1957 | Decoy | Nick Santos | TV | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1957 | The Defender (Studio One) | Francis Toohey | Film | 6.1 | 37 |
| 1957 | Time Limit | Sgt. Baker | Film | 7.2 | 37 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner | TV | — | 36 |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Sam Butler | TV | 6.2 | 36 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Eldon Marsh | TV | 7.8 | 35 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Leonard Thompson | TV | 7.8 | 35 |
| 1955 | A Man Is Ten Feet Tall | Charlie Malick | Film | — | 35 |
| 1954 | Inner Sanctum | TV | 8.0 | 34 | |
| 1954 | On the Waterfront | Gillette (uncredited) | Film | 7.9 | 34 |
| 1954 | The Greatest Gift | TV | — | 34 | |
| 1953 | Valiant Lady | TV | 4.7 | 33 | |
| 1952 | The Living Bible | Townsman | Film | 6.0 | 32 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Garth | TV | 8.8 | 31 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Strasberg | TV | 8.8 | 31 |
| 1951 | The Living Christ | Townsman | TV | 5.7 | 31 |
| 1949 | Concerning a Woman of Sin | Film | 10.0 | 29 | |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | TV | 6.6 | 28 | |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | Mike Galloway | TV | 6.6 | 28 |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | Charlie Malick | TV | 6.6 | 28 |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | TV | 6.8 | 28 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Ed Coyne | TV | 5.4 | 28 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Francis Toohey | TV | 5.4 | 28 |
| 1948 | Actors Studio | soldier | TV | 7.5 | 28 |
| 1944 | Winged Victory | Bit Part (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 24 |
| The Time Element | Dr. Arnold Gillespie | Film | — | — |