FrameThrower · Actors · Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam
9 films · 774 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1957–1991
Born 4 November 1919 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA · died 13 February 1996
Martin Henry Balsam was an American character actor. He is best known for a number of film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns (1965), which earned him 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).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 774 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1957–1991
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1966
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1968
- National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor1964
How their films are shot
Measured across 774 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Martin takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 57% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Martin takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 774 frames from Martin Balsam's 9 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.