Bob Balaban
Sign in to saveAmerican actor, director and producer
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1945-08-16
- Works
- 35
Top works
- Sink or Swim
- Sink or Swim (Creature from the 7th Grade Book 2)
- The creature from the seventh grade
- Beware of dog
- Beware of Dog Display
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Robert Elmer Balaban, Born: August 16, 1945, Chicago, Illinois, U.S (Height: 5' 5" [1.65 m]). is an American actor, author, comedian, director, and producer. He is best known for his appearances in the Christopher Guest mockumentary comedies Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), and For Your Consideration (2006), as well as his roles in the films Midnight Cowboy…
Known for
- Fantasy Life — Lenny2026
- Bad Actors2024
- 80 for Brady — Mark2023
- Asteroid City — Larkings Executive2023
- Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy — Self2023
- How Dare You Want More: The Short Film2022
- Severance — Mark Wilkins2022
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun — Uncle Nick2021
- How Moving — Uncle Aaron2021
- The Chair — Elliot Rentz2021
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 253
- Total plays
- 831
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,112x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,083x
- The Complete Genome Sequence of
<i>Escherichia coli</i>
K-12
· 1997 · cited 5,891x
- <i>Stan</i>
: A Probabilistic Programming Language
· 2017 · cited 5,641x
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Key dates
- Born
- 16 August 1945
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bob
- Family name
- Q15480125
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- HB Studio
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1945 births20th-century American Jews20th-century American male actors21st-century American Jews21st-century American male actorsAmerican comedy film directorsAmerican horror film directorsAmerican male comediansAmerican male film actorsAmerican male television actorsAmerican people of German-Jewish descentAmerican people of Romanian-Jewish descent