Person
Bob Byington
Directing · Born 1971-04-29 · Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
Biography
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). 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
Uncle Robert
The Color Wheel
Professor Neil Chadwick
Shameless
Director
Tuna
Director
Lousy Carter
Producer
Mullitt
Stu
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Director
Also Starring Austin
2018
Frances Ferguson
Director
Bark!
Script Supervisor
Filmography
- 2024Lousy CarterProducer
- 2023Getting Stoned with Bob ByingtonHimself
- 2019Frances FergusonDirector
- 2018Also Starring Austin
- 2017The Poet and the ProfessorThe Professor
- 2017Infinity BabyDirector
- 20157 Chinese BrothersWhite Beemer Guy
- 2015Ned RifleConcierge
- 2014Wild CanariesDisgruntled Filmmaker
- 2014Apartment TroublesUncle Robert
- 2013Somebody Up There Likes MeDirector
- 2013TunaDirector
- 2012The Color WheelProfessor Neil Chadwick
- 2011Slacker 2011Director
- 2010Harmony and MeJim
- 2010Incredibly SmallMr. Waldorf
- 2009BeeswaxTom
- 2008RSO [Registered Sex Offender]Director
- 2002Bark!Script Supervisor
- 2000MullittStu
- 1999Treasure IslandThomas
- 1998OlympiaStory
- 1993ShamelessDirector
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