Balaban Bob

Robert Elmer Balaban. Nephew of executive producer Barney K. Belaban and cousin of director Burt Balaban, Bob Belaban was born in Chicago on August 16, 1945. Before entering the studio of Uta Hagen, Bob graduated from the University of Colgate and New York. Bob began performing in a theater troupe in Chicago. In 1967, he appeared in an off-Broadway production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and on Broadway in Plaza Suite. The first role in the movie was a high school student who pays the main more

Robert Elmer Balaban. Nephew of executive producer Barney K. Belaban and cousin of director Burt Balaban, Bob Belaban was born in Chicago on August 16, 1945. Before entering the studio of Uta Hagen, Bob graduated from the University of Colgate and New York. Bob began performing in a theater troupe in Chicago. In 1967, he appeared in an off-Broadway production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and on Broadway in Plaza Suite. The first role in the movie was a high school student who pays the main character for a meeting in the theater in Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight. This scene is usually cut from rental television versions, and for good reason. Perhaps the most famous role can be considered a cartographer from Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. Belaban is no stranger to directing - after trying his hand at the theater, he subsequently put on television several episodes from the weekly show Tales of the Darkside and Amazing Stories.