Bob Balaban
Birthday: 16 August 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birth Name: Robert Elmer Balaban
Height: 165 cm
Bob Balaban was born on August 16, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Robert Elmer Balaban. He is an actor and director, known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and ...Show More
[describing his Chicago youth] I was one of those kids who'd put on neighborhood puppet shows. I was Show more
[describing his Chicago youth] I was one of those kids who'd put on neighborhood puppet shows. I was a puppet fanatic. I was always putting on plays and enlisting my friends to help. Hide
When I felt unsure of my abilities and terrified of the whole enterprise, I said to myself, 'You're Show more
When I felt unsure of my abilities and terrified of the whole enterprise, I said to myself, 'You're an actor, right? So act like a director.' Hide
There is an aphorism, well regarded by Freudian analysts and talent agents alike, that all people ar Show more
There is an aphorism, well regarded by Freudian analysts and talent agents alike, that all people are half-actors. We can only expand that wisdom a bit and posit the following: all actors are half-directors. Hide
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting, Show more
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting, too. Hide
Yes, I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
Yes, I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
Bob Balaban's FILMOGRAPHY
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as Actor (230)
as Director (1)
Bob Balaban'S roles
Judge Leonard B. Sand
Dr. Rice
Ed
Dr. Theodore W. Millbank III
David Laughlin
King
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