Martin Balsam "The Goodbye People". In 1960, he appeared in one of his best-remembered roles as Detective Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". Along with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam appeared in both the original "Cape Fear" (1962), and the 1991 Martin Scorsese remake. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Arnold Burns in "A Thousand Clowns" (1965). In 1968, he won a Tony Award for his appearance in the 1967 Broadway production of "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running". Balsam played "Washington Post" editor Howard Simons in "All the President's
The Detective (novel) The Detective (novel) The Detective is a thriller/detective novel by author Roderick Thorp, first published hardcover in 1966. It was made into the 1968 movie of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, as Detective Joe Leland. Billed as, "An adult look at police life," "The Detective" went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 1968 and one of the strongest box-office hits of Sinatra's acting career. A 1979 sequel, "Nothing Lasts Forever", was later made into the 1988 film "Die Hard", which spawned a series totalling five films. Joe Leland, a private detective, begins investigating a case for