Bob Balaban
Acting
Born: 1945-08-16 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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 Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006), as well as his roles in the films Midnight Cowboy (1969), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Altered States (1980), 2010 (1984), Deconstructing
🎬 Movies (20)
Fantasy Life
2026
Lenny
Bad Actors
2024
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
2023
Self
Asteroid City
2023
Larkings Executive
80 for Brady
2023
Mark
How Dare You Want More: The Short Film
2022
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
Uncle Nick
How Moving
2021
Uncle Aaron
Carl Laemmle
2019
Himself
An L.A. Minute
2018
Shelley
Isle of Dogs
2018
King (voice)
Spielberg
2017
Self
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
Self
Mascots
2016
Sol Lumpkin
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
2016
Mr. Waxcap
Eva Hesse
2016
Wilhelm Hesse (voice)
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
Self
Everything Is Copy
2015
Self
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
2015
Self / The Narrator
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
Narrator (voice)
📺 TV Shows (20)
Severance
2022
Mark Wilkins
The Chair
2021
Elliot Rentz
Space Force
2020
Ron (voice)
The Politician
2019
Keaton Hobart
Summer Camp Island
2018
Gerald (voice)
Condor
2018
Reuel Abbott
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018
Self
Wormwood
2017
Dr. Harold A. Abramson
Graves
2016
Secretary Burns
Show Me a Hero
2015
Leonard B. Sand
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
Self
Broad City
2014
Arthur Wexler
Family Tree
2013
Melvin Schmelff / Tumbleweed Tim
Alpha House
2013
Senator Elliot Robeson
Girls
2012
Therapist
China, IL
2011
(voice)
Web Therapy
2011
Ted Mitchell
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
Self
The Good Wife
2009
Gordon Higgs
Web Therapy
2008
Ted Mitchell