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Bob Balaban
Born 08/16/1945
(78 years old)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
A producer, director, actor, and writer, Balaban has been a fixture of film, television, Broadway, and publishing for over thirty years.
Balaban produced GOSFORD PARK, which was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award and won the Oscar® for Original Screenplay and the BAFTA for Best British Film. He produced, directed, and wrote THE LAST GOOD TIME, which won Best Director and Best Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival. He also
directed the black comedy-horror film PARENTS. He is most recently the creator, writer, and producer of the IFC animated comedy series “Hopeless Pictures,” and the executive producer of the second season of “Celebrity Charades” on AMC.
As an actor, Balaban has appeared on Broadway in “Plaza Suite,” “The Inspector General” (for which he earned a Tony nomination), and “Speed the Plow.” Off- Broadway work includes “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown,” “The White House Murder Case,” “Marie and Bruce,” “Pavlo Hummel,” and “Some Americans Abroad.”
Balaban produced and directed the hit off-Broadway evening, “The Exonerated” (which won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award), as well as the National Tour starring Robin Williams, Stockard Channing, and Mia Farrow. He also directed the film version of “The Exonerated” for Court TV, which starred Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Aidan Quinn, and Brian Dennehy.
Balaban has appeared in nearly 50 movies, including his striking debut in MIDNIGHT COWBOY, CATCH-22, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, ALTERED STATES, 2010, ABSENCE OF MALICE, PRINCE OF THE CITY, DECONSTRUCTING HARRY, JAKOB THE LIAR, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, BEST IN SHOW, THE MEXICAN, GHOST WORLD, A MIGHTY WIND and MARIE AND BRUCE.
He was seen in CAPOTE, TRUST THE MAN, M. Night Syamalan’s LADY IN THE WATER and Christopher Guest’s FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
Balaban has even written a series of best-selling children’s books for Scholastic called “McGrowl.”
The Weinstein Company
Actor
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy |
2018 |
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (series) |
Alien Life (E01) |
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2017 |
Wormwood (series) |
Chapter 6: Remember Me (E06) |
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Chapter 4: Opening the Lid (E04) |
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Chapter 3: The Forbidden Threshold (E03) |
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Chapter 2: A Terrible Mistake (E02) |
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2016 |
Eva Hesse |
Starring Austin Pendleton |
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2015 |
Everything Is Copy |
2010 |
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (series) |
Peepshow Pioneers: 1889–1907 (E01) |
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2008 |
The Windmill Movie |
2006 |
Celebrating Schlesinger |
Reflections of Lady in the Water |
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2003 |
I Love the '70s (series) |
2002 |
Biography: Tim Robbins - Playing From the Heart (TV movie) |
2001 |
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' |
The Making of 'Gosford Park' (TV movie) |
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1988 |
Funny |
1984 |
2010: The Odyssey Continues |
In Our Hands |
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1982 |
The Making of 'Absence of Malice' (TV movie) |
1977 |
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (TV movie) |
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2021 |
How Moving |
2012 |
Moonrise Kingdom: Animated Book Short |
2011 |
The Five Stages of Grief |
2010 |
F--K |
2002 |
The Burbs (TV movie) |
2000 |
Tex, the Passive-Aggressive Gunslinger |
Director
Movies | |
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2009 |
Georgia O'Keeffe (TV movie) |
2006 |
Bernard and Doris |
2005 |
The Exonerated (TV movie) |
1997 |
Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground (TV movie) |
1994 |
The Last Good Time |
1993 |
My Boyfriend's Back |
1989 |
Parents |
1983 |
The Brass Ring (TV movie) |
Series | |
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2016 |
Graves |
That Dare Not Speak (S01E04) |
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Nothing Can Come of Nothing (S01E03) |
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2014 |
Alpha House |
Bugged (S02E08) |
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2013 |
Alpha House |
Prayer Brunch (S01E07) |
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Zingers (S01E06) |
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2012 |
Nurse Jackie |
No-Kimono-Zone (S04E06) |
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One-Armed Jacks (S04E05) |
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2011 |
Nurse Jackie |
The Astonishing (S03E08) |
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Orchids and Salami (S03E07) |
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2008 |
Swingtown |
Go Your Own Way (E05) |
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2003 |
The Twilight Zone |
The Pharaoh's Curse (E36) |
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2002 |
The Twilight Zone |
Future Trade (E20) |
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2001 |
Dead Last |
2000 |
Deadline |
Now and Again |
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Lizzard's Tale (E18) |
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1999 |
Strangers with Candy |
1998 |
Oz |
Great Men (S02E03) |
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1995 |
Legend |
Revenge of the Herd (E09) |
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1991 |
Eerie, Indiana |
1985 |
Amazing Stories |
Fine Tuning (S01E07) |
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1983 |
Tales from the Darkside |
Trick or Treat (S01E01) |
Documentaries | |
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2014 |
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss |
1997 |
Directors on Directors (series) |
Video compilation | |
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1992 |
Amazing Stories: Book Five |
Short | |
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2019 |
Shande |
Performer
Shows | |
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2020 |
Bad Music Video Theatre - a.f. |
2017 |
Hollywood First Look |
2014 |
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver |
2009 |
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards |
1998 |
Vivement dimanche prochain |
1993 |
Good Day L.A. |
Producer
Short | |
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2002 |
Lost in the Snow |