
Frank Langella
Biography
Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor. He has received four Tony Awards (out of seven nominations) as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Langella's notable film roles include parts in Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Mel Brooks’s The Twelve Chairs (1970), Dracula (1979), Dave (1993), The Ninth Gate (1999), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), All Good Things (2010), Robot & Frank (2012), Noah (2014), Captain Fantastic (2016), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). On television, Langella had recurring roles in The Americans (2013–2017) and Kidding (2018–2020).
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Known For
Acting History
2022
Angry Neighbors as Harry March
2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2020The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Judge Julius Hoffman
2019Love, Antosha as Self
2019It Takes a Lunatic as Self
2018Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding as Self
2018Kidding as Sebastian Piccirillo
2017Marcians as Self - Interviewee
2017Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
2017Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe as Self - Actor
2017Youth in Oregon as Raymond Engersol
2016Captain Fantastic as Jack Bertrang
2016All the Way as Sen. Richard Russell
2016Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
2015The Driftless Area as Tim Geer
2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014The Prophet as Pasha (voice)
2014Grace of Monaco as Father Francis Tucker
20145 to 7 as Sam Bloom
2014Draft Day as Anthony Molina
2014Parts Per Billion as Andy
2014Muppets Most Wanted as Beefeater Vicar
2014Noah as Og (voice)
2013Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Chief Justice Warren Burger
2013Genius on Hold as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013The Americans as Gabriel
2012The Time Being as Warner Dax
2012Robot & Frank as Frank
2011Unknown as Rodney Cole
2010All Good Things as Sanford Marks
2010Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics as Perry White (archive footage)
2010Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps as Lewis Zabel
2009The Box as Arlington Steward
2008The Tale of Despereaux as Mayor (voice)
2008Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
2008The Caller as Jimmy Stevens
2008Objects and Memory as Narrator
2007Starting Out in the Evening as Leonard Schiller
2006Return to Rajapur as Ned Bears
2006Crossroads as Father Tew
2006Superman Returns as Perry White
200610.5: Apocalypse as Dr. Earl Hill
2006The Water Is Wide as Superintendent
2006King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
2006Capitol Law as Managing Partner
2005Kitchen Confidential as Pino
2005Good Night, and Good Luck. as William Paley
2005Back in the Day as Lieutenant Hudson
2005American Dad! as Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)
2005Now You See It... as Max
2005Unscripted as Goddard Fulton
2005How You Look to Me as Professor Driskoll
2004The Revamping of Dracula as Self
2004House of D as Reverend Duncan
2003Inside High Noon as Narrator (voice)
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2003111 Gramercy Park as William
2001The Beast
2001Sweet November as Edgar Price
2000Cry Baby Lane as Mr. Bennett
2000Stardom as Blaine De Castillon
2000Jason and the Argonauts as Aertes
2000Innocents as Robert Denright
1999The Road to 'Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Al Baker
1999The Ninth Gate as Boris Balkan
1999Alegría: An Enchanting Fable as Fleur
1998I'm Losing You as Perry Needham Krohn
1998Small Soldiers as Archer (voice)
1997Lolita as Clare Quilty
1997The Greatest Pharaohs as Narrator
1996Eddie as Wild Bill Burgess
1996Moses as Merneptah
1996Moïse as Mernefta
1995Cutthroat Island as Dawg
1995Moses as Mermefta
1995Bad Company as Vic Grimes
1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Narrator
1994Junior as Noah Banes
1994Doomsday Gun as Dr. Gerald Bull
1994Brainscan as Detective Hayden
1993Dave as Bob Alexander
1993Body of Evidence as Jeffrey Roston
1993Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Minister Jaro
1992Lincoln as John Wilkes Booth (voice)
19921492: Conquest of Paradise as Santangel
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1991True Identity as Leland Carver
1990Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream as Self
1990The Magic Balloon
1988And God Created Woman as James Tiernan
1987Masters of the Universe as Skeletor
1986The Men's Club as Harold Canterbury
1986Liberty as Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
1983I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind as Leonardo da Vinci
1982Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner as Sherlock Holmes
1981Sphinx as Akmed Khazzan
1980Those Lips, Those Eyes as Harry Crystal
1979Dracula as Count Dracula
1977The Prince of Homburg as The Prince of Homburg
1976The Eccentricities of a Nightingale as John Buchanan
1976The American Woman: Portraits of Courage as John Adams
1975The Swiss Family Robinson
1975The Seagull as Konstantin Treplev
1974The Mark of Zorro as Don Diego / Zorro
1974Dinah! as Self
1972The Wrath of God as Thomas De La Plata
1971The Deadly Trap as Philippe
1971Great Performances as Konstantin Treplev
1971Great Performances as John Buchanan
1971Great Performances as The Prince of Homburg
1970The Twelve Chairs as Ostap Bender
1970Diary of a Mad Housewife as George Prager
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Henry Piedmont
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
—The Beast in the Jungle







