Person

Bob Balaban

54 credits in the catalogue: acting, directing, writing.

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Acting

Midnight Cowboy1969The Young Student
Catch-221970Capt. Orr
The Strawberry Statement1970Elliot
The Bank Shot1974Victor Karp
Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977David Laughlin
Girlfriends1978Martin
Altered States1980Arthur Rosenberg
Absence of Malice1981Elliott Rosen
Prince of the City1981Santimassino
Whose Life Is It Anyway?1981Carter Hill
Little Man Tate1991Quizmaster
Bob Roberts1992Cutting Edge Producer
Waiting for Guffman1997Lloyd Miller
Deconstructing Harry1997Richard
Clockwatchers1997Milton Lasky
Jakob the Liar1999Kowalsky
Cradle Will Rock1999Harry Hopkins
Three to Tango1999Decker
Best in Show2000Dr. Theodore W. Millbank, III
Gosford Park2001Morris Weissman
Ghost World2001Enid's Dad
The Mexican2001Nayman
The Majestic2001Elvin Glyde
A Mighty Wind2003Jonathan Steinbloom
Marie and Bruce2004Roger
Capote2005William Shawn
For Your Consideration2006Philip Koontz
Lady in the Water2006Harry Farber
No Reservations2007Therapist
License to Wed2007Jewelry Store Clerk (uncredited)
Recount2008Ben Ginsberg
Howl2010Judge Clayton Horn
Moonrise Kingdom2012The Narrator
Fading Gigolo2013Sol
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight2013Lawyer (uncredited)
The Grand Budapest Hotel2014M. Martin
The Monuments Men2014Pvt. Preston Savitz
Hitchcock/Truffaut2015Narrator (voice)
Everything Is Copy2015Self
Mascots2016Sol Lumpkin
Wormwood2017Dr. Harold Abramson
Spielberg2017Self
Isle of Dogs2018King (voice)
Summer Camp Island2018Gerald
Condor2018Reuel Abbott
The Politician2019Keaton Hobart
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun2021Uncle Nick
The Chair2021Professor Elliot Rentz
80 for Brady2023Mark

Directing

Parents1989Director
My Boyfriend's Back1993Director

Writing

Gosford Park2001Idea

Production

Gosford Park2001Producer
Can You Ever Forgive Me?2018Executive Producer