Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American actor. He is known for his roles as Archie Bunker's business partner Murray Klein in the sitcom Archie Bunker's Place from 1979-1982, as Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor) and as private investigator Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and as Juror #1 in 12 Angry Men.

Biography

In 1951, Balsam married his first wife, actress Pearl Somner. They divorced three years later. His second wife was actress Joyce Van Patten. This marriage lasted for four years (from 1958 until 1962) and produced one daughter, Talia Balsam. He married his third wife, Irene Miller, in 1963. They had two children, Adam and Zoe Balsam, and divorced in 1987.

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