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