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
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho York Times" declared it a "meticulous history of a single film production." Anthony Quinn in "The Sunday Times" wrote; "[the book] combines a gossipy retrospective with a serious work of criticism, presenting an articulate guide to Hitchcock's idiosyncratic approach to film-making and the collaborative efforts that underpinned it. The author has conducted interviews with all those involved in the making of "Psycho" – its casting, scripting, art design, lighting, editing, selling – in the course of it, we inch closer to the bizarre, unpredictable quality of its director." "Psycho" star Anthony Perkins called the book, "Meticulously researched and irresistible ...