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Real name: |
Martin Henry Balsam |
| Birthdate: |
November 04, 1919 |
| Date of death: |
February 13, 1996 |
| Age: |
76 years |
| Country: |
 United States
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| Horoscope: |
Scorpio |
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Martin Balsam Nominations & Awards
Academy Awards
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- Best Supporting Actor WINNER
Golden Globes Awards
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
BAFTA
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actor NOMINATED
National Board of Review
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- Best Supporting Actor WINNER
Martin Henry Balsam, better known as Martin Balsam, was an American Actor. He has won an Academy Awards and an National Board of Review Awards. He's known for Cape Fear (1991), Psycho (1960) and On the Waterfront (1954).
All Movies of Martin Balsam
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"A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers" will look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give their audiences a shot of adrenalin...
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(archive footage)
2009
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Max Cady is a psychopath just released from prison for rape. He is out seeking revenge from his lawyer Sam Bowden who he believes deliberately held back important information about his case during the trial, which could have kept ...
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Juez
1991
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Two horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by two famous horror directors, George A. Romero and Dario Argento.
"The Facts in the Case of Mr Valdemar": Jessica Valdemar and her lover Dr Robert ...
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Mr. Pym (segment "The Black Cat")
1990
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War is Hell... especially NAM. A group of battle weary soldiers in Vietnam are trapped behind enemy lines. There is no way back. No help on the way. It's only a matter of time and these guys intend to "Die Fighting" Bo S...
1987
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When a band of ruthless terrorists hijack an airliner full of American passengers, the U.S. enlists the aid of an elite strike force to rescue the hostages.
1986
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Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a transsexual. Flashback to 1964 and meet Richard Radley, a successful New York doctor with a great lif...
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Dr. Beck
1986
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A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.
1985
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A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970's.
1985
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Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favorite hangout, St. Elmo's. Alex (Judd Nelson) and Leslie (Ally Sheedy) are career-minded and heading towa...
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Mr. Beamish
1985
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Paul Kersey, the vigilante, returns to New York to visit a friend. But when he arrives he finds his friend dead, and the police enter and find him standing over the body holding a gun. At the station a police lieutenant recognizes...
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Bennett
1985
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The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
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Nathan Burkan
2 episodes, 1982
1982
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An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to se...
1981
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1981
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1980
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(archive footage)
1979
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(1979-1983). 4 seasons. Television sitcom which was a continuation of 'All in the Family.' In this series, Archie Bunker gets to loudly voice his opinions in his own bar, instead of at home.
1979
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Gardenia possiede un ristorante, ha una donna, Regina, e segue le vecchie regole della malavita romana. Questo finchè non arriva Salluzzo che pretende di smerciare la droga anche nel ristorante di Gardenia. Ma gardenia rifiuta pe...
1979
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A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
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General Bello
1979
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A fashion model moves into a house inhabited (on the top floor) by a blind priest. She begins having strange physical problems, has trouble sleeping at night, and has some nasty flashbacks of her attempted suicide. She complains t...
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Professor Ruzinsky
1977
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A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of di
1977
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Character:
Capitán Ernie Weinberg
1977
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Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.
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Edward J. Reilly
1976
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Second of a series of dramas about a daring Israeli commando assult on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
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Daniel Cooper
1976
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Commissario
1976
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A psychotic man, armed with a hunting rifle and acting alone, goes on a sniping spree and is hunted by the police and a SWAT team. Sniper and SWAT converge at a crowded major-league football game, where at the two-minute warning s...
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Sam McKeever
1976
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In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, an...
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Howard Simons
1976
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Petrus Lamb
1976
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As a gang of youths terrorizes a city, the weary chief of police finds himself caught between the citizens who cry for blood and a catholic priest who believes the boys will respond to kindness.
1975
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Four armed men hijack a New York City subway train and demand 1 million dollars - which must be delivered in 1 hour - for the train and the lives of the passengers held hostage. Lt. Zachary Garber of the New York City Transit Poli...
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Harold Longman aka Green
1974
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The Famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express, and one of the passengers requests his protection. The next day the passenger is found dead in his compartment, and Poirot is determined to atone for his failu...
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Bianchi
1974
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Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the previous generation of Sici...
1973
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Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged
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Dr. Harry Walden
1973
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When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes t...
1972
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District Attorney Turrisi
1972
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Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists...
1970
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A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bure...
1970
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In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Su...
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Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
1970
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Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by Gener...
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Mr. Merriweather
1970
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"Miriam": Miss Miller has spent her life as a governess for children in some of the most fashionable homes in New York. She is shocked one day to learn that one of her "babies" is expecting a baby of her own an...
1969
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A plain girl, living in New York, tries to come to terms with the fact that she'll never be beautiful.
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Uncle Harold
1969
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1969
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1967
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Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world, and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again with his friends, and plans to retrieve ...
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Harry Granoff
1966
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An American news writer assigned to interview the captain of the destroyer USS Bedford bears witness to a stunning game of cat and mouse in the frigid waters of the northern Atlantic. A Soviet submarine has been tailing the Bedfor...
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Lieut Cmdr. Chester Potter M.D., U.S.N.
1965
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A screen adaption of the blistering best-seller which examines the story of the platinum blonde bombshell (Baker) who rose to fame in the reckless Hollywood of the 1930's.
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Everett Redman
1965
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Twelve-year-old Nick (played by Barry Gordon) lives with his Uncle Murray (Jason Robards), a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker (Barbara Harris), who fa...
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Arnold
1965
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The International Jet Set...and Youngblood Hawke belonged. All the way from a Kentucky shack to the black-tie intimacies of a Fifth Avenue penthouse.
1964
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At the height of the cold war, a weakened President and a popular four-star general face off in a battle for control of the US government. President Jordan Lyman has successfully negotiated an arms reduction treaty with the Soviet...
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Paul Girard
1964
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A wax-museum employee fights to preserve five figures of famous murderers.
1963
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TV Series (1963-1964). 1 season. 30 episodes.
1963
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George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's ...
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Bernard B. Norman
1963
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Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been released, he begins to terrorize...
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Police Chief Mark Dutton
1962
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TV Series (1961-1966). 5 Seasons. 191 episodes. The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his s...
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Dr. Milton Orloff
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7 episodes, 1962-1966
1961
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Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is New York call girl, whose allure captivates her upstairs neighbour Paul Varjak (George Peppard), a writer who pays the rent with the help of his own wealthy "sponsor" (Patricia Neal).
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O.J. Berman
1961
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1960
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Office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is entrusted with $40,000 to take to the bank. Seeing the opportunity to keep the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town. Tired afte...
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Det. Milton Arbogast
1960
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TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end wit...
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Danny Weiss
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2 episodes, 1959-1963
1959
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Jerry Kingsley (March) is a widower, a lonely but successful clothing manufacturer who falls in love with Betty Preisser (Novak), one of his employees. The employee-boss relationship is one hurdle the erstwhile couple have to over...
1959
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TV Series (1958-1963). 4 seasons. 138 episodes. A crime drama that focused on the lives of the detectives of New York's 65th Precinct. The emphasis in the stories was mostly on real-life crime and the human element. Season one sta...
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