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Bob Balaban

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Filmography

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014
as Monsieur Martin

The Chair (2021)

2021
as Elliot Rentz

Condor

2018
as Reuel Abbott

Isle of Dogs

2018
as King

The Politician

2019
as Keaton Hobart

Moonrise Kingdom

2012
as Narrator

Show Me a Hero

2015
as Judge Leonard B. Sand

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977
as David Laughlin

No Reservations

2007
as Therapist

The Monuments Men

2014
as Pvt. Preston Savitz

The French Dispatch

2021
as Uncle Nick

Ghost World

2001
as Enid's Dad

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

2016
as Mr. Waxcap

Wormwood (2017)

2017

Web Therapy (2011)

2011
as Ted Mitchell

Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film

2006
as Bob Balaban

For Your Consideration

2006
as Philip Koontz

Catch-22

1970
as Capt. Orr

Amos & Andrew

1993
as Dr. R. A. (Roy) Fink

Report to the Commissioner

1975
as Joey Egan

Little Man Tate

1991
as Quizmaster

Cradle Will Rock

1999
as Harry Hopkins

The Face of Fear

1990
as Ira Preduski

Best in Show

2000
as Dr. Theodore W. Millbank, III

The Monster Hunter

1999
as Dr. William Powell

Midnight Cowboy

1969
as The Young Student

Swing Vote

1999
as Justice Eli MacCorckle

Marriage: Year One

1971
as Bernie

Bob Roberts

1992
as Michael Janes

The Windmill Movie

2008
as Bob Balaban

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

2001
as Bob Balaban

Plan B

2001
as James Foster

Me, Natalie

1969
as Morris

A Mighty Wind

2003
as Jonathan Steinbloom

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015
as Narrator

Spielberg

2017
as Himself

Greedy

1994
as Ed

Waiting for Guffman

1996
as Lloyd Miller

Making It

1971
as Wilkie

Eva Hesse

2016
as Wilhelm Hesse (voice)

Girlfriends

1978
as Martin

Girl Most Likely

2012
as Maxwell

The Definite Maybe

1997
as Wolfe Rollins

Pie in the Sky

1996
as Paul Entamen

Howl

2010
as Judge Clayton Horn

The Strawberry Statement

1970
as Elliot - Organizer

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

1984
as Bob Balaban

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

1994
as Dr. Jeffrey Sanborn

Clockwatchers

1997
as Milton Lasky

Marie and Bruce

2004
as Roger

The Majestic

2001
as Elvin Glyde

Dedication

2007
as Arthur Planck

Starring Austin Pendleton

2016

Lady in the Water

2006
as Harry Farber

For Love or Money

1993
as Ed Drinkwater

2010: The Year We Make Contact

1984
as Dr. R. Chandra

Jakob the Liar

1999
as Kowalsky

Deconstructing Harry

1997
as Richard

Do You Like to Read?

2012
as The Narrator

80 for Brady

2023
as Mark

Conversation with the Beast

1997
as Mr. Webster

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

1981
as Carter Hill

Absence of Malice

1981
as Elliott Rosen

Bank Shot

1974
as Victor Karp

Fading Gigolo

2013
as Sol

Carl Laemmle

2019
as Bob Balaban

Trust the Man

2005
as Tobey's Therapist

Gosford Park

2001
as Morris Weissman

Three to Tango

1999
as Decker

Thin Ice

2011
as Leonard Dahl

The Mexican

2001
as Bernie Nayman

Mascots

2016
as Sol Lumpkin

The Late Shift

1996
as Warren Littlefield

End of the Line

1987
as Warren Gerber

Everything Is Copy

2015

Dead Bang

1989
as Elliott Webley

Recount

2008
as Ben Ginsberg

Rage

2009
as Mr. White

Capote

2005
as William Shawn

Altered States

1980
as Arthur Rosenberg

Giving Up the Ghost

1998
as Bob

Prince of the City

1981
as Santimassino

The Five Stages of Grief

2011
as Daniel's Father

Director

Episode Amazing Stories (1985)
Fine Tuning 		1985
Episode Legend
Fall of a Legend 		1995
Episode Tales from the Darkside
Pilot: Trick or Treat 		1983
Movie My Boyfriend's Back 1993
Movie Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground 1997
Movie The Exonerated 2006
Episode Swingtown
Go Your Own Way 		2009
Episode Eerie, Indiana
The Lost Hour 		1991
Episode Alpha House
Bugged 		2014
Episode Eerie, Indiana
Marshall's Theory of Believability 		1992
Episode Now and Again
Lizzard's Tale 		2000
Episode Oz
Great Men 		1998
Episode The Twilight Zone (2002)
Future Trade 		2002
Movie Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread 1987
Episode Alpha House
Zingers 		2013
Episode Maude
Phillip's Birthday Party 		1977
Episode The Twilight Zone (2002)
The Pharaoh's Curse 		2003
Movie The Last Good Time 1994
Episode Strangers with Candy
Jerri is Only Skin Deep 		1999
Movie The Brass Ring 1983
Movie Bernard and Doris 2006
Episode Legend
Revenge of the Herd 		1995
Movie Georgia O'Keeffe 2009
Episode Alpha House
Prayer Brunch 		2013
Episode Eerie, Indiana
Zombies in P.J.s 		1992
Movie Parents 1989

Writer

Movie The Last Good Time 1994
Movie Gosford Park 2001

Producer

Movie Can You Ever Forgive Me? 2018
Movie The Definite Maybe 1997
Movie The Last Good Time 1994
Movie Gosford Park 2001
Movie Bernard and Doris 2006

Guest Star

Episode Seinfeld
The Ticket 		1992
Episode Maude
Maude's Ex-Convict 		1976
Episode Seinfeld
The Pilot (1) 		1993
Episode The Good Wife
Bitcoin for Dummies 		2012
Episode Friends
The One with Joey's Bag 		1999
Episode Alpha House
The Contest 		2014
Episode Room 222
Fathers and Sons 		1969
Episode Miami Vice
Stone's War 		1986
Episode Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Episode 80 		2016
Episode Alpha House
The Civility Zone 		2014
Episode Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Episode 37 		2015
Episode Seinfeld
The Watch 		1992
Episode Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Expert Witness 		1999
Episode James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Alien Life 		2018
Episode The West Wing
20 Hours in L.A. 		2000
Episode Seinfeld
The Pilot (2) 		1993
Episode Now and Again
Lizzard's Tale 		2000
Episode Amazing Stories (1985)
Gershwin's Trunk 		1987
Episode Seinfeld
The Shoes 		1993
Episode Seinfeld
The Pitch 		1992
Episode Entourage
The Dream Team 		2007
Episode Miami Vice
Back in the World 		1985
Episode The Education of Max Bickford
I Never Schlunged My Father 		2002
Episode Legend
Revenge of the Herd 		1995
Episode Broad City
Knockoffs 		2015