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Bob Balaban

Highest Rated:: 100% Bob Roberts (1992)
Lowest Rated:: 10% My Boyfriend's Back (1993)

Birthday:: Aug 16, 1945
Birthplace:: Chicago, Illinois
Bio:: Playing a succession of bespectacled, soft-spoken, yet vaguely superior characters, Bob Balaban carved himself a niche as a reliable character actor in the last quarter of the 20th century, while also getting the occasional opportunity to write and direct for the screen. The nephew and cousin of…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 10% - 100%

Number of Movies: 65

Box Office Since 2001: $295.5M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2012		Thin Ice	Actor	--
2011	81%	A Monster in Paris	Actor	--
2010	62%	Howl	Judge Clayton Horn	$0.6M
2009		Georgia O'Keeffe	Director	--
2009		Rage	Actor	--
2008	76%	Recount	Ben Ginsberg	--
2008	86%	The Windmill Movie	Actor	--
2007	41%	Dedication	Arthur Planck	--
2007	41%	No Reservations	Therapist	$43.1M
2007		Bernard and Doris	Director	--
2006	28%	Trust the Man	Actor	$1.5M
2006		No Money Down	Actor	--
2006	24%	Lady in the Water	Harry Farber	$42.2M
2006	50%	For Your Consideration	Philip Koontz	$5.5M
2005	90%	Capote	William Shawn	$28.3M
2005		The Exonerated	Director	--
2004	86%	Absence Of Malice	Rosen	--
2004		Recount Democracy	Actor	--
2004		Marie and Bruce	Roger	--
2003	88%	A Mighty Wind	Jonathan Steinbloom	$17.5M
2003		Monster Hunter	Actor	--
2001	86%	Gosford Park	Morris Weissman Producer	$41.3M
2001		Plan B	Actor	--
2001	42%	The Majestic	Majority Counsel Elvin Clyde	$27.7M
2001	92%	Ghost World	Enid's Dad	$4.7M
2001	56%	The Mexican	Bernie Nayman	$66.6M
2000		The Monster Hunter	Actor	--
2000	94%	Best in Show	Dr. Theodore W. Milbank III	$16.6M
1999	28%	Three to Tango	Decker	--
1999	64%	Cradle Will Rock	Harry Hopkins	--
1999	30%	Jakob the Liar	Kowalski	--
1997	71%	Deconstructing Harry	Richard	--
1997	91%	Waiting for Guffman	Lloyd Miller	--
1997		No Money Down	Actor	--
1997		SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground	Director	--
1997	83%	Clockwatchers	Milton Lasky	--
1997		Subway Stories	Director	--
1996		The Late Shift	Warren Littlefield	--
1995		Pie in the Sky	Paul Entamen	--
1994	89%	The Last Good Time	Director Screenwriter	--
1994	29%	Greedy	Ed	--
1994	19%	City Slickers 2 - The Legend of Curly's Gold	Actor	--
1993	10%	My Boyfriend's Back	Director	--
1993	21%	Amos & Andrew	Doctor R.A. (Roy) Fink	--
1993	32%	For Love Or Money	Mr. Drinkwater	--
1992	100%	Bob Roberts	Producer Michael Janes "Cutting Edge Live"	--
1991		Unnatural Pursuits	Actor	--
1991	76%	Little Man Tate	Quizmaster (uncredited)	--
1990	77%	Alice	Sid Moscowitz	--
1990		The Face of Fear	Ira Preduski	--
1989	30%	Dead Bang	Elliot Webly	--
1989	50%	Parents	Director	--
1988	60%	End of the Line	Warren Gerber	--
1984	63%	2010: The Year We Make Contact	R. Chandra	--
1981	94%	Prince of the City	Santimassino	--
1981	80%	Whose Life Is It Anyway?	Catter Hill	--
1980	88%	Altered States	Arthur Rosenberg	--
1978		Girlfriends	Martin	--
1977	95%	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	David Laughlin	--
1974		Report to the Commissioner (Operation Undercover)	Joey Egan	--
1974		Bank Shot	Victor Karp	--
1970	87%	Catch-22	Capt. Orr	--
1970		The Strawberry Statement	Elliot the Organizer	--
1969		Me, Natalie	Morris	--
1969	90%	Midnight Cowboy	The Young Student	--