# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-balsam
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:19:08.046Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-balsam"
name: "Martin Balsam"
slug: "martin-balsam"
description: "Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He had a prolific career in character roles in film, in theatre, and on television. An early member of the Actors Studio, he began his career on the New York stage, winning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1968). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Thousand Clowns (1965)."
tagline: "American actor (1919–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin_Balsam_Film_Still.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1919-11-04"
deathDate: "1996-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.17
  momentum:             5.331638548648026
  historical:           23.78687466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000842/"
    handle:    "nm0000842"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump