Bob Balaban
ActingTotal Credits
166
Acting
140
First Credit
1961
Latest Credit
2026
Friends
Frank Sr.
1994
Severance
Mark Wilkins
2022
The West Wing
Ted Marcus
1999
Seinfeld
Russell Dalrymple
1989
Oz
Director
1997
The Grand Budapest Hotel
M. Martin
2014
The Simpsons
Narrator (voice)
1989
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Bob (voice) · Additional Writing
1995
Isle of Dogs
King (voice)
2018
Summer Camp Island
Gerald (voice)
2018
Moonrise Kingdom
The Narrator
2012
The Good Wife
Gordon Higgs
2009
Eerie, Indiana
Director
1991
Strangers with Candy
Director
1999
Midnight Cowboy
The Young Student
1969
Web Therapy
Ted Mitchell
2008
Spielberg
Self
2017
Amazing Stories
Jo-Jo Gillespie · Director
1985
Everything Is Copy
Self
2015
Miami Vice
Ira Stone
1984
Entourage
Doctor
2004
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
David Laughlin
1977
Deconstructing Harry
Richard
1997
Tales from the Darkside
Writer
1984
The Twilight Zone
Director
2002
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Narrator (voice)
2015
Alpha House
Senator Elliot Robeson · Director
2013
Broad City
Arthur Wexler
2014
Nurse Jackie
Director
2009
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
2001
Ghost World
Enid's Dad
2001
Condor
Reuel Abbott
2018
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Carter Hill
1981
Show Me a Hero
Leonard B. Sand
2015
American Dad!
Glen Hanover (voice)
2005
Prince of the City
Santimassino
1981
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Uncle Nick
2021
Waiting for Guffman
Lloyd Miller
1997
Capote
William Shawn
2005
The Politician
Keaton Hobart
2019
Monsters
Writer
1988
Maude
Ambrose Riley · Director
1972
Tom Goes to the Mayor
Walt Pickle (voice)
2004
Best in Show
Dr. Theodore W. Millbank, III
2000
The Face of Fear
Ira Preduski
1990
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Self
2018
China, IL
(voice)
2011
Now and Again
Actor · Director
1999
Gosford Park
Morris Weissman · Producer · Idea
2001
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Executive Producer
2018
Recount
Ben Ginsberg
2008
A Mighty Wind
Jonathan Steinbloom
2003
The Majestic
Elvin Glyde
2001
Altered States
Arthur Rosenberg
1980
No Reservations
Therapist
2007
Jakob the Liar
Kowalsky
1999
Girlfriends
Martin
1978
Catch-22
Capt. Orr
1970
2010
Dr. R. Chandra
1984
Absence of Malice
Elliott Rosen
1981