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Bob Balaban
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- Director
- Producer
In short · Acting since 1969, 7 decades active, 86 credits.
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Director
8 credits
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss(2014)
Director
Film
Georgia O'Keeffe(2009)
Director
Film
Bernard and Doris(2006)
Director
Film
The Exonerated(2005)
Director
Film
SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground(1997)
Director
Film
The Last Good Time(1994)
Director
Film
My Boyfriend's Back(1993)
Director
Film
Parents(1989)
Director
Film
Writer
1 credit
Actor
68 credits
Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round(2024)
Actor
Film
Asteroid City(2023)
Larkings Executive
Film
Severance(2022)
Actor
TV
The Chair(2021)
Elliot Rentz
TV
The French Dispatch(2021)
Uncle Nick
Film
Space Force(2020)
Ron (voice) (1 Episode)
TV
An L.A. Minute(2018)
Shelly
Film
Condor(2018)
Reuel Abbott
TV
Isle of Dogs(2018)
King
Film
Wormwood(2017)
Dr. Harold A. Abramson
TV
Eva Hesse(2016)
Wilhelm Hesse
Film
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House(2016)
Mr. Waxcap
Film
Hitchcock/Truffaut(2015)
Narrator
Film
The Monuments Men(2014)
Preston Savitz
Film
The Grand Budapest Hotel(2014)
M. Martin
Film
Fading Gigolo(2013)
Sol
Film
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight(2013)
Lawyer (uncredited)
Film
Moonrise Kingdom: Animated Book Short(2012)
The Narrator
Film
Girl Most Likely(2012)
Maxwell P. Duncan
Film
Moonrise Kingdom(2012)
The Narrator
Film
F--k(2010)
Bob
Film
Howl(2010)
Judge Clayton Horn
Film
Rage(2009)
Mr. White
Film
Recount(2008)
Ben Ginsberg
Film
Dedication(2007)
Arthur Planck
Film
No Reservations(2007)
Therapist
Film
License to Wed(2007)
Jewelry Store Clerk (uncredited)
Film
Lady in the Water(2006)
Harry Farber
Film
Hopeless Pictures(2005)
Sam
TV
Capote(2005)
William Shawn
Film
Producer
1 credit
Awards & Nominations
1 nominationAcademy Awards
- Nom2001Oscar — Best Picture
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- Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight CowboySelf - Actor, Director · 2022
- Carl LaemmleSelf · 2019
- The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten ActsSelf · 2019
- Starring Austin PendletonSelf · 2016
- The Windmill MovieSelf · 2008
- The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'Self · 2001
- FunnySelf · 1988
- In Our HandsSelf · 1983
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