Bob Balaban
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August 16, 1945
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Bob Balaban Bio
Robert Elmer Balaban, better known as Bob Balaban, is an American actor, author, producer, and director, born on August 16, 1945, in Chicago, Illinois. He is known as Morris Weissman in the Oscar winner Gosford Parkthat he produced, and he was nominated himself. The Chicago-born appeared in another two Best Picture Oscar nominees: winner Midnight Cowboy and nominee Capote. His other credits include A Mighty Wind, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Seinfeld, and The Late Shift, where he played the head of NBC in both. He was nominated for Broadway's 1979 Tony Award as Best Actor for The Inspector General. He is the son of Elmer Balaban of the Balaban boys, who built the first supercolossal theaters in Chicago. His uncle, Barney Balaban, was chairman of Paramount Pictures in Hollywood.
