Bob Balaban, who played a succession of bespectacled, soft-spoken, yet vaguely superior characters, carved himself a niche as a reliable character actor in the last quarter of the 20th century, while also getting the occasional opportunity to write
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Bob Balaban, who played a succession of bespectacled, soft-spoken, yet vaguely superior characters, carved himself a niche as a reliable character actor in the last quarter of the 20th century, while also getting the occasional opportunity to write and direct for the screen.