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Article: OBITUARY : Martin Balsam
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 14, 1996
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Although he won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his
charming performance as Jason Robards's stuffily correct brother in
A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role for which Martin Balsam will
always be remembered is the world-weary private detective Arbogast
in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho (1960). Few sequences
in film history are more terrifying than the one in which Arbogast
climbs the staircase of the Bates house, only to be stabbed
repeatedly by "Mother Bates". The hapless detective's aghast
expression as he tumbles down that staircase lingers in the memory.
One of the most expensive sequences in the film, it involved an
elaborate series of cine-matic tricks. The ...
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