Martin Balsam won Best Supporting Actor for A Thousand Clowns and worked constantly as a character actor for four decades.
Psycho gives him the detective Arbogast, whose death on the staircase is the film’s second shock and required a complex process shot that Hitchcock spent considerable effort on.
12 Angry Men, All the President’s Men and Catch-22 fill out the serious work, and he was among the original members of the Actors Studio.
Little Big Man gives him a snake-oil salesman who loses a body part in every scene he appears in, which is a very strange running joke.
Anthony PerkinsHitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel about a woman who steals from her employer and stops at the wrong motel. Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 American horror-thriller adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, depicting a Phoenix real-estate secretary who steals…
Alan ArkinMike Nichols' 1970 Heller adaptation. Substantial source material that the film handles only partially.
Ed BegleyThe film runs ninety-six minutes. The film takes place almost entirely in a singl.
EG MarshallFoundational dual-perspective Pearl Harbor film. Equal substantive treatment of American and Japanese forces.
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