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Bob Balaban
16 August 1945
Bob Balaban played in 23 and created 3 movies in the Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, War, Action, Crime, Animation, Documentary, Biography genres.
Bob Balaban got succeed with average imdb rating 8.3.
Cousin of director Burt Balaban and nephew of Barney Balaban.
Played the head of NBC in both "Seinfeld" (1990) and The Late Schedule (1996) (TV).
Son of Elmer Balaban (1909-2001) who was last surviving of seven Balaban brothers who dominated the theater company in Chicago and much of the Midwest. The Balaban boys, sons of outsider Jewish grocery-store owners in Chicago, built borough's first "supercolossal" theaters, the 700-seat Class and the 2,000-seat Inner Parkland. Bob's Uncle Barney became chairman of Pre-eminent Pictures in Hollywood and wanted to pass the torch to Elmer, but he declined. Elmer has been credited with devising an break of dawn version of pay TV, based on a finance-top box that would present anything else-exceed movies at home by accepting quarters.
... Published a annals of his experiences working on the film Close down b close Encounters of the Third Affectionate (1977).
His premier cousin, Judith Balaban Quine, is initiator of "The Bridemaids", a book about her friend, Grace Kelly.
Was nominated for Broadway's 1979 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Function - Play) after "The Inspector General."
Uncles Barney and A. J. Balaban owned baroque movie theaters with Sam Katz, the Balaban & Katz theater confine. Renamed Publix Theaters in 1925, it was acquired by Paramount Pictures. The theater chain became so important to Paramount's fortunes that the company name was changed to Chief-Publix in 1930. Paramount-Publix went bankrupt in 1933, and was reorganized as Paramount Pictures, Inc. Sam Katz forced co-initiator Adolph Zukor to let go, but after Barney Balaban became Paramount president in 1936, he appointed Zukor chairman of the scantling. Barney Balaban was president of Vital through the hysterical years following the 1949 Loftiest Court-mandated divestiture of movie production companies from their theater chains. President of Paramount for 28 years, Barney coined "Balaban's Law," which held that a film had to gross three times its negative cost to break equable. After the failure of Samuel Bronston's "Associate with of the Roman Empire" (1964), which rate $20 million (approximately $115 million in 2003 dollars), Balaban was eased out of First.
Uncle Barney Balaban, president of Essential Pictures from 1936 to 1964,was one of the movie magnates who attended the Waldorf Symposium in 1946, in which the blacklist against communists was implemented. A deeply religious man, when asked by his daughter about his complicity with the blacklist, Balaban told her, "I don't improvise it's okay. There's something all round it that's okay, but there's something about it that's brutal, and I don't absolutely see it all all the same."
Was listed as a dormant appointee on the 2007 Razzie Reward nominating ballot. He was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actor category over the extent of his performance in the film Lady in the Distilled water (2006), he failed to earn a nomination however.
He is described as a "mega-hunk" in "The Simpsons: A Important Is Born Again (#14.13)" (2003).
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