Bob Balaban(I)

Actor
Director
Producer

Bob Balaban at an event for Jack Goes Boating (2010)

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Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022)

Bob Balaban was born on 16 August 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Gosford Park (2001), A Mighty Wind (2003) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He has been married to Lynn Grossman since 1 April 1977. They have two children.

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 11 wins & 20 nominations total

"Severance" Cast Through the Years

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Known for

Gosford Park

7.2

Morris Weissman

2001

Parker Posey, Christopher Guest, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Dooley, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Christopher Moynihan, and Harry Shearer in A Mighty Wind (2003)

A Mighty Wind

7.2

Jonathan Steinbloom

2003

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

7.6

David Laughlin

1977

Capote

7.3

William Shawn

2005

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Actor

Severance
8.7
TV Series
- Mark W.
- 2025
Asteroid City
6.5
- Larkings Executive
- 2023
80 for Brady
5.9
- Mark
- 2023
Past My Bedtime
5.9
Podcast Series
- 2022
How Dare You Want More
Short
- Rick
- 2022
Space Force
6.7
TV Series
- Ron (voice)
- 2022
The Harper House
5.4
TV Series
- Frederick
- Buck Mastiff (voice)
- 2021
The Chair
7.2
TV Mini Series
- Elliot Rentz
- 2021
The French Dispatch
7.1
- Uncle Nick
- 2021
How Moving
7.0
Short
- Uncle Aaron
- 2021
Summer Camp Island
7.7
TV Series
- Gerald (voice)
- 2021
The Simpsons
8.7
TV Series
- Narrator (voice)
- 2021
Condor
7.7
TV Series
- Reuel Abbott
- 2018–2020
The Politician
7.5
TV Series
- Keaton Hobart
- 2019
Broad City
8.4
TV Series
- Arthur Wexler
- 2015–2019

Director

Graves
6.6
TV Series
- Director
- 2016
Fishkill
TV Movie
- Director
- 2016
Alpha House
7.5
TV Series
- Director
- 2013–2014
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
5.9
- Director (segment "Globalization... Who Cares?... You Do")
- 2014
Nurse Jackie
7.8
TV Series
- Director
- 2011–2012
Georgia O'Keeffe
6.5
TV Movie
- Director
- 2009
Swingtown
7.6
TV Series
- Director
- 2008
Bernard and Doris
6.5
- Director
- 2006
Hopeless Pictures
7.0
TV Series
- Director
- 2005
The Exonerated
6.6
TV Movie
- Director
- 2005
The First Amendment Project: No Joking
7.9
TV Movie
- Director
- 2004
The Twilight Zone
7.2
TV Series
- Director
- 2002–2003
Dead Last
7.3
TV Series
- Director
- 2001
Deadline
6.1
TV Series
- Director
- 2000
Now and Again
8.1
TV Series
- Director
- 2000

Producer

Brooklyn, Minnesota
- executive producer
- 2024
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
7.1
- executive producer
- 2018
Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn
6.9
Short
- executive producer
- 2008
Bernard and Doris
6.5
- executive producer
- 2006
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
8.4
TV Series
- executive producer
- 2006–2007
Celebrity Charades
6.4
TV Series
- executive producer
- 2005
The Exonerated
6.6
TV Movie
- executive producer
- 2005
The Burbs
7.1
TV Movie
- executive producer
- 2002
Gosford Park
7.2
- producer
- 2001
The Wedding Toast
Short
- producer
- 1999
The Definite Maybe
4.1
- executive producer
- 1997
The Last Good Time
6.6
- producer
- 1994

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Alternative name
- Robert Balaban
Height
- 5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
Born
- August 16, 1945
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Spouse
- Lynn GrossmanApril 1, 1977 - present (2 children)
Parents
Other works
Stage: Appeared (as "Linus") in the original off-Broadway production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". He is also on the original cast album
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