In the history of film, Martin Balsam is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Martin Balsam as American actor (1919–1996).
Martin Balsam was born at The Bronx in 1919. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at DeWitt Clinton High School and The New School.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as character actor, stage actor and film actor.
The screen flattens effort: a performance that took months reads as a few unhurried minutes.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1966) and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1968).
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Martin Balsam died in 1996 at the age of 77. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — 1966
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — 1968
- Educated at DeWitt Clinton High School and The New School
- Worked as character actor, stage actor and film actor
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