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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 1, 1938
Place of Birth:
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Dracula Unearthed | Count Dracula (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Angry Neighbors | Harry March |
| 2021 | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Judge Julius Hoffman |
| 2019 | It Takes a Lunatic | Self |
| 2019 | Love, Antosha | Self |
| 2018 | Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding | Self |
| 2017 | Broadway: The Next Generation | Self |
| 2017 | Youth in Oregon | Raymond Engersol |
| 2017 | Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe | Self - Actor |
| 2016 | Captain Fantastic | Jack Bertrang |
| 2016 | All the Way | Sen. Richard Russell |
| 2016 | Mike Nichols: An American Master | Self |
| 2015 | The Driftless Area | Tim Geer |
| 2014 | Noah | Og (voice) |
| 2014 | Draft Day | Anthony Molina |
| 2014 | Grace of Monaco | Father Francis Tucker |
| 2014 | 5 to 7 | Sam Bloom |
| 2014 | Parts Per Billion | Andy |
| 2014 | Muppets Most Wanted | Beefeater Vicar |
| 2014 | The Prophet | Pasha (voice) |
| 2013 | Genius on Hold | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Chief Justice Warren Burger |
| 2012 | Robot & Frank | Frank |
| 2012 | The Time Being | Warner Dax |
| 2011 | Unknown | Rodney Cole |
| 2010 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Lewis Zabel |
| 2010 | All Good Things | Sanford Marks |
| 2010 | Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics | Perry White (archive footage) |
| 2010 | The Miraculous Year | Alex Segal |
| 2009 | The Box | Arlington Steward |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Richard Nixon |
| 2008 | Objects and Memory | Narrator |
| 2008 | The Caller | Jimmy Stevens |
| 2008 | The Tale of Despereaux | Mayor (voice) |
| 2007 | Starting Out in the Evening | Leonard Schiller |
| 2006 | Superman Returns | Perry White |
| 2006 | Crossroads | Father Tew |
| 2006 | The Water Is Wide | Superintendent |
| 2006 | Capitol Law | Managing Partner |
| 2006 | Return to Rajapur | Ned Bears |
| 2006 | King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed | |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | William Paley |
| 2005 | Now You See It... | Max |
| 2005 | Back in the Day | Lieutenant Hudson |
| 2005 | How You Look to Me | Professor Driskoll |
| 2004 | House of D | Reverend Duncan |
| 2004 | The Revamping of Dracula | Self |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self |
| 2003 | 111 Gramercy Park | William |
| 2003 | Inside High Noon | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Sweet November | Edgar Price |
| 2000 | Innocents | Robert Denright |
| 2000 | Stardom | Blaine De Castillon |
| 2000 | Cry Baby Lane | Mr. Bennett |
| 1999 | The Ninth Gate | Boris Balkan |
| 1999 | Alegría: An Enchanting Fable | Fleur |
| 1999 | The Road to 'Dracula' | Self (archive footage) |
| 1998 | Small Soldiers | Archer (voice) |
| 1998 | I'm Losing You | Perry Needham Krohn |
| 1997 | Lolita | Clare Quilty |
| 1996 | Eddie | Wild Bill Burgess |
| 1995 | Cutthroat Island | Dawg |
| 1995 | Bad Company | Vic Grimes |
| 1994 | Junior | Noah Banes |
| 1994 | Brainscan | Detective Hayden |
| 1994 | Doomsday Gun | Dr. Gerald Bull |
| 1994 | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Narrator |
| 1993 | Body of Evidence | Jeffrey Roston |
| 1993 | Dave | Bob Alexander |
| 1992 | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | Santangel |
| 1992 | Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth (voice) |
| 1991 | True Identity | Leland Carver |
| 1990 | The Magic Balloon | |
| 1990 | Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream | Self |
| 1988 | And God Created Woman | James Tiernan |
| 1987 | Masters of the Universe | Skeletor |
| 1986 | The Men's Club | Harold Canterbury |
| 1986 | Liberty | Frederic Auguste Bartholdi |
| 1983 | I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind | Leonardo da Vinci |
| 1982 | Night of 100 Stars | Self |
| 1981 | Sphinx | Akmed Khazzan |
| 1981 | Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner | Sherlock Holmes |
| 1980 | Those Lips, Those Eyes | Harry Crystal |
| 1979 | Dracula | Count Dracula |
| 1977 | The Prince of Homburg | The Prince of Homburg |
| 1976 | The American Woman: Portraits of Courage | John Adams |
| 1976 | The Eccentricities of a Nightingale | John Buchanan |
| 1975 | The Seagull | Konstantin Treplev |
| 1974 | The Mark of Zorro | Don Diego / Zorro |
| 1972 | The Wrath of God | Thomas De La Plata |
| 1971 | The Deadly Trap | Philippe |
| 1970 | Diary of a Mad Housewife | George Prager |
| 1970 | The Twelve Chairs | Ostap Bender |
| The Beast in the Jungle |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kidding | Sebastian |
| 2017 | Marcians | Self - Interviewee |
| 2013 | The Americans | Gabriel |
| 2006 | 10.5: Apocalypse | Dr. Earl Hill |
| 2005 | Unscripted | Goddard Fulton |
| 2005 | Kitchen Confidential | |
| 2005 | American Dad! | Commodore Francis Stoat (voice) |
| 2001 | The Beast | |
| 2000 | Jason and the Argonauts | Aertes |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Al Baker |
| 1997 | The Greatest Pharaohs | Narrator |
| 1996 | Moses | Merneptah |
| 1993 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Minister Jaro |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | |
| 1975 | The Swiss Family Robinson | |
| 1974 | Dinah! | Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Konstantin Treplev |
| 1971 | Great Performances | John Buchanan |
| 1971 | Great Performances | The Prince of Homburg |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Dr. Henry Piedmont |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |