Bob Balaban
Birthdate: Aug 16, 1945
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bob Balaban was born on 16 August 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Gosford Park (2001), A Mighty Wind (2003) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He has been married to Lynn Grossman since 1 April 1977. They have two children.
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Bob Balaban Movies
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- 2023 |
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
asSelf - Actor, Director
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy (1969) produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.
- 2023 |
80 for Brady
asMark
A group of friends made it their life-long mission to go to the Super Bowl and meet NFL superstar Tom Brady.
- 2021 |
The French Dispatch
asUncle Nick
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city, that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".
- 2019 | Carl Laemmle
- 2018 |
An L.A. Minute
asShelly
"An L.A. Minute" is a satirical look at fame, success, the star-making machinery and the karma that attaches to all those who worship at the altar of Celebrity. Best-selling author Ted Gold faces a moral dilemma when Velocity, an avant-garde performance artist and the living embo... Read all
- 2018 |
- 2016 | I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the Houseas Mr. Waxcap
- 2016 | Eva Hesseas Wilhelm Hesse
- 2016 |
- 2015 | The 1st Annual Carney Awards
- 2015 | Hitchcock/Truffautas Narrator
- 2015 |
Hitchcock/Truffaut
asNarrator
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
- 2014 | We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
- 2013 | Fading Gigoloas Sol
- 2014 |
The Monuments Men
asPreston Savitz
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
- 2012 | Girl Most Likelyas Maxwell P. Duncan
- 2012 | Moonrise Kingdomas The Narrator
- 2010 | Howlas Judge Clayton Horn
- 2009 | Rageas Mr. White
- 2008 | The Windmill Movie
- 2007 | Dedicationas Arthur Planck
- 2007 | No Reservationsas Therapist
- 2006 | Bernard and Doris
- 2006 | Lady in the Wateras Harry Farber
- 2004 | Marie and Bruceas Roger
- 2004 | Scene Stealersas Jonathan Crouch Esq.
- 2001 | Gosford Park
- 2001 | Gosford Park
- 2001 | The Majesticas Elvin Clyde
- 2001 | Ghost Worldas Enid's Dad
- 2001 | The Mexicanas Bernie Nayman
- 1999 | Natural Selectionas Dr. William Powell
- 1999 | Three to Tangoas Decker
- 1999 | Jakob the Liaras Kowalsky
- 1997 | The Definite Maybeas Wolfe Rollins
- 1996 | Conversation with the Beastas Mr. Webster
- 1995 | Pie in the Skyas Paul Entamen
- 1994 | The Last Good Time
- 1994 | The Last Good Time
- 1994 | The Last Good Time
- 1994 | Greedyas Ed
- 1993 | For Love or Moneyas Ed Drinkwater
- 1993 | My Boyfriend's Back
- 1989 | Dead Bangas Elliot Webly
- 1989 | Parents
- 1988 | Funny
- 1987 | End of the Lineas Warren Gerber
- 1984 | 2010as Dr. R. Chandra
- 1983 | In Our Hands
- 1981 | Whose Life Is It Anyway?as Carter Hill
- 1981 | Absence of Maliceas Elliott Rosen
- 1981 | Prince of the Cityas Santimassino
- 1980 | Altered Statesas Arthur Rosenberg
- 1978 | Girlfriendsas Martin
- 1977 |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
asDavid Laughlin
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
- 1975 | Report to the Commissioneras Joey Egan
- 1974 | The Bank Shotas Victor Karp
- 1971 | Making Itas Wilkie
- 1970 | The Strawberry Statementas Elliot - Organizer
- 1969 | Me, Natalieas Morris
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