Bob Byington
Known for DirectingBorn 1971-04-29Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
Indie favorite Bob Byington burst on to the scene in 2008 with his SXSW midnight lo-fi, low culture hit, RSO [Registered Sex Offender]. He followed that up at Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films series with the Sundance Lab project "Harmony and Me" (2009).
In 2012 Byington won the prestigious Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival with "Somebody Up There Likes Me" starring Nick Offerman, and shortly thereafter he teamed with Jason Schwartzman for cult smash "7 Chinese Brothers" (2015).
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In 2017 Byington worked with comedy stalwart Kieran Culkin to make "Infinity Baby" --the film took best feature at the much lauded Woodstock Film Festival that year.
Bob is an Annenberg Fellow and is in the permanent collection at MoMA. His new film is "Frances Ferguson".
Known for
Apartment Troubles
2014 · as Uncle Robert
Mullitt
2000 · as Stu
Ned Rifle
2015 · as Concierge
The Color Wheel
2012 · as Professor Neil Chadwick
Harmony and Me
2010 · as Jim
Wild Canaries
2014 · as Disgruntled Filmmaker
Treasure Island
1999 · as Thomas
7 Chinese Brothers
2015 · as White Beemer Guy
Also Starring Austin
2018
Incredibly Small
2010 · as Mr. Waldorf
Beeswax
2009 · as Tom
The Poet and the Professor
2017 · as The Professor
Getting Stoned with Bob Byington
2023 · as Himself