MARTIN BALSAM, OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR, AT 76.(News)(Obituary)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | February 14, 1996 | Copyright

Byline: The New York Times

Martin Balsam, a heavy-set, baldish character actor whose talents earned him an Oscar, a Tony and roles in scores of films and plays and hundreds of television shows over more than a half-century, died Tuesday in his hotel room in Rome while on vacation there. Balsam, who lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, was 76.

The cause was a stroke, said his son, Adam.

As versatile and ubiquitous as he was, Balsam was philosophical on the subject of character actors. He often told a story about a woman who walked up to one of ...

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