Martin Balsam Martin Balsam Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American character actor. He is best known for a number of renowned film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960), Arnold Burns in "A Thousand Clowns" (1965) (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Juror #1 in "12 Angry Men" (1957), and Mr. Green in "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" (1974), as well as for his role as Murray Klein in the television sitcom "Archie Bunker's Place" (1979–1983). Martin Henry Balsam was born in the Bronx borough
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Required reading not only for "Psycho"-files, but for anyone interested in the backstage world of movie-creation." Images Journal reviewer Gary Johnson called it "one of the best books ever written about the making of a movie." Gerald Kaufman of "The Sunday Telegraph" found it "joyously entertaining." "Entertainment Weekly," referring to Rebello's revealing how Hitchcock arrived at the sound of the knife stabbing the heroine in the shower, opined "the melon tale alone is worth the price of [the book]." Another top critic wrote that, unlike other books about films and filmmakers, it "reads more like a gripping novel than detached