Bob Balaban
Birthday: 16 August 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birth Name: Robert Elmer Balaban
Height: 165 cm
Bob Balaban was born on August 16, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Robert Elmer Balaban. He is an actor and director, known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He has been married to Lynn Grossman since April 1, 1977. They have two children.
Yes, I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
Yes, I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.
[describing his Chicago youth] I was one of those kids who'd put on neighborhood puppet shows. I was...Show more »
[describing his Chicago youth] I was one of those kids who'd put on neighborhood puppet shows. I was a puppet fanatic. I was always putting on plays and enlisting my friends to help. Show less «
When I felt unsure of my abilities and terrified of the whole enterprise, I said to myself, 'You're ...Show more »
When I felt unsure of my abilities and terrified of the whole enterprise, I said to myself, 'You're an actor, right? So act like a director.' Show less «
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting, ...Show more »
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting, too. Show less «
There is an aphorism, well regarded by Freudian analysts and talent agents alike, that all people ar...Show more »
There is an aphorism, well regarded by Freudian analysts and talent agents alike, that all people are half-actors. We can only expand that wisdom a bit and posit the following: all actors are half-directors. Show less «
Bob Balaban's FILMOGRAPHY
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...