Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer and writer.[1] Aside from his acting career, Balaban has directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films, and was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Gosford Park (2001), in which he also appeared. He is also an author of children's novels.
Balaban is most known for his appearances in the Christopher Guest comedies Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006) and in the Wes Anderson films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018) and The French Dispatch (2021). Balaban's other film roles include the drama Midnight Cowboy (1969); the science fiction films Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Altered States (1980), 2010 (1984), the comedy Deconstructing Harry (1997), and the historical drama Capote (2005).
^Derek Armstrong (2013). "Bob Balaban profile". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. Aside from his acting career, Balaban has directed three...
to get Psycho made. Elmer Balaban, brother BobBalaban, nephew Balaban, David (2006). The Chicago Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz (IL) (Images of America)...
Game). The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Eileen Atkins, BobBalaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant...
first and middle names. The film stars William Hurt, Blair Brown, and BobBalaban, and marks the screen acting debuts of Hurt as well as Drew Barrymore...
Elmer Balaban (May 1, 1909 – November 2, 2001) was an American theater owner and early cable television provider. Balaban was born to a Jewish family...
Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, BobBalaban, and Tilda Swinton. Robert Yeoman has served as director of photography...
ensemble cast includes Guest, Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, BobBalaban and Parker Posey. The film's title is a reference to Samuel Beckett's...
as Lily Saylor Paula Prentiss as Iris Blum Erin Boyes as young Iris BobBalaban as Mr. Waxcap Lucy Boynton as Polly Parsons Brad Milne as Groom Daniel...
Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, BobBalaban, and introducing Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward. Largely set on the fictional...
Allen, with an ensemble cast, including Caroline Aaron, Kirstie Alley, BobBalaban, Richard Benjamin, Eric Bogosian, Billy Crystal and Judy Davis, as well...
Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon and BobBalaban. The film is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland during...
Judith Rose Balaban (October 13, 1932 – October 19, 2023) was an American actress and author of The Bridesmaids: Grace Kelly and Six Intimate Friends...
including Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, BobBalaban, Hugh Bonneville and Cate Blanchett. The film is based on the 2007 non-fiction...
Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, BobBalaban, Ed Begley Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch and...
Frankenheimer and starring Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, BobBalaban, and Tim Reid. Johnson's character, based on real-life LASD Detective...
Ciello, with a supporting cast featuring Jerry Orbach, Lindsay Crouse and BobBalaban. Lumet had previously directed Serpico (1973), an award-winning film...
nephew of A. J. Balaban, the brother of author Judy Balaban, and the cousin of actor BobBalaban of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Gosford...
starring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Wilford Brimley, Melinda Dillon and BobBalaban. The title refers to one of the defenses against libel defamation, and...
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