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Bob Balaban

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

16/08/1945

Age

80 years old

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Bob Balaban

Biography

Robert Elmer Balaban, Born: August 16, 1945, Chicago, Illinois, U.S (Height: 5' 5" [1.65 m]). is an American actor, author, comedian, director, and producer. He is best known for his appearances in the Christopher Guest mockumentary comedies Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty... Read More

Known For

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Asteroid City

80 for Brady

How Dare You Want More: The Short Film

The French Dispatch

How Moving

Carl Laemmle

An L.A. Minute

Filmography

Cast

2025

Fantasy Life

2024

Bad Actors

2023

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legen...

as Self

2023

Asteroid City

as Larkings Executive

2023

80 for Brady

as Mark

2022

How Dare You Want More: The Short Film

2021

The French Dispatch

as Uncle Nick

2021

How Moving

as Uncle Aaron

2019

Carl Laemmle

as Himself

2018

An L.A. Minute

as Shelley

2018

Isle of Dogs

as King (voice)

2017

Spielberg

as Self

2016

Mascots

as Sol Lumpkin

2016

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the ...

as Mr. Waxcap

2016

Eva Hesse

as Wilhelm Hesse (voice)

2016

Starring Austin Pendleton

as Self

2016

Mike Nichols: An American Master

as Self

2015

Everything Is Copy

as Self

2015

Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

as Self / The Narrator

2015

Hitchcock/Truffaut

as Narrator (voice)

2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel

as M. Martin

2014

The Monuments Men

as Pvt. Preston Savitz

2013

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

as Lawyer (uncredited)

2013

Fading Gigolo

as Sol

2012

Girl Most Likely

as Maxwell

2012

Do You Like to Read?

as The Narrator

2012

Moonrise Kingdom

as The Narrator

2012

Thin Ice

as Leonard Dahl

2011

The Five Stages of Grief

as Voice of Daniel's father

2010

Howl

as Judge Clayton Horn

2010

F--k

as Bob

2009

Rage

as Mr. White

2009

The Windmill Movie

as Self

2008

Recount

as Ben Ginsberg

2007

Dedication

as Arthur Planck

2007

License to Wed

as Jewelry Store Clerk (uncredited)

2007

No Reservations

as Therapist

2007

Prince of the City: The Real Story

as Self / Santimassino

2006

For Your Consideration

as Philip Koontz

2006

Lady in the Water

as Harry Farber

2006

Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessnes...

as Self

2005

Capote

as William Shawn

2005

Trust the Man

as Tobey's Therapist

2004

Scene Stealers

as Jonathan Crouch Esq.

2004

Marie and Bruce

as Roger

2003

A Mighty Wind

as Jonathan Steinbloom

2002

The Tuxedo

as Winton Chalmers (uncredited)

2002

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

as Self

2001

Gosford Park

as Morris Weissman

2001

The Majestic

as Elvin Glyde

2001

Ghost World

as Enid's Dad

2001

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the T...

as Self

2001

The Mexican

as Bernie Nayman

2001

Plan B

as James Foster

2000

Best in Show

as Dr. Theodore W. Millbank, III

2000

Tex, the Passive/Aggressive Gunslinger

as Tex

1999

Cradle Will Rock

as Harry Hopkins

1999

George Romero's Golden Tales 2

1999

Three to Tango

as Decker

1999

Jakob the Liar

as Kowalsky

1999

Swing Vote

as Justice Eli MacCorckle

1999

The Monster Hunter

as Dr. William Powell

1998

Giving Up the Ghost

as Bob

1997

Deconstructing Harry

as Richard

1997

The Definite Maybe

as Wolfe Rollins

1997

Clockwatchers

as Milton Lasky

1997

Conversation with the Beast

as Mr. Webster

1996

Waiting for Guffman

as Lloyd Miller

1996

The Late Shift

as Warren Littlefield

1996

Pie in the Sky

as Paul Entamen

1994

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's ...

as Dr. Jeffrey Sanborn (uncredited)

1994

Greedy

as Ed

1993

For Love or Money

as Ed Drinkwater

1993

Amos & Andrew

as Dr. R. A. (Roy) Fink

1992

Bob Roberts

as Cutting Edge Producer

1992

Unnatural Pursuits

as Lou Finkleberg

1991

Little Man Tate

as Quizmaster

1990

Alice

as Sid Moscowitz

1990

The Face of Fear

as Ira Preduski

1989

Dead Bang

as Elliott Webley

1988

Funny

as Self

1987

End of the Line

as Warren Gerber

1984

2010

as Dr. R. Chandra

1984

Nothing Lasts Forever

as Guy with Sunglasses in Espresso Bar

1984

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

as Himself

1981

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

as Carter Hill

1981

Absence of Malice

as Elliott Rosen

1981

Prince of the City

as Santimassino

1980

Altered States

as Arthur Rosenberg

1978

Girlfriends

as Martin

1977

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

as David Laughlin

1975

Report to the Commissioner

as Joey Egan

1974

The Bank Shot

as Victor Karp

1971

Marriage: Year One

as Bernie

1971

Making It

as Wilkie

1970

The Strawberry Statement

as Elliot

1970

Catch-22

as Capt. Orr

1969

Me, Natalie

as Morris

1969

Midnight Cowboy

as The Young Student

as Director

1987

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

as Director

1983

The Brass Ring

as Director

1985

Stephen King's Golden Tales

as Writer