Frank Langella
- Acting
- January 1, 1938 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
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).
Known for
Filmography
- Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost · Thanks
- Angry Neighbors · Harry March
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age · Self
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 · Judge Julius Hoffman
- Love, Antosha · Self
- It Takes a Lunatic · Self
- Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding · Self
- Kidding · Sebastian Piccirillo
- Marcians · Self
- Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe · Self
- Youth in Oregon · Raymond
- Mike Nichols: An American Master · Self
- Captain Fantastic · Jack Bertrang
- All the Way · Sen. Richard Russell
- The Driftless Area · Tim Geer
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films · Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet · Pasha (Voice)
- Grace of Monaco · Father Francis Tucker
- 5 to 7 · Sam Bloom
- Draft Day · Anthony Molina
- Parts Per Billion · Andy
- Muppets Most Wanted · Beefeater Vicar
- Noah · Og (Voice)
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight · Chief Justice Warren Burger
- Genius on Hold · Self
- The Americans · Gabriel
- The Time Being · Warner Dax
- Robot & Frank · Frank
- Unknown · Rodney Cole
- All Good Things · Sanford Marks
- Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics · Perry White (archive footage)
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps · Lewis Zabel
- The Box · Arlington Steward
- The Tale of Despereaux · Mayor (Voice)
- Frost/Nixon · Richard Nixon
- The Caller · Jimmy Stevens
- Objects and Memory · Narrator
- Starting Out in the Evening · Leonard Schiller
- Return to Rajapur · Ned Bears
- Crossroads · Father Tew
- Superman Returns · Perry White
- 10.5: Apocalypse · Dr. Earl Hill
- The Water Is Wide · Superintendent
- King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
- Capitol Law · Managing Partner
- Kitchen Confidential · Pino
- Good Night, and Good Luck. · William Paley
- Back in the Day · Lieutenant Hudson
- American Dad! · Commodore Francis Stoat (Voice)
- Now You See It... · Max
- Unscripted · Goddard
- How You Look to Me · Professor Driskoll
- The Revamping of Dracula · Self
- House of D · Reverend Duncan
- Inside High Noon · Narrator (Voice)
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There · Self
- 111 Gramercy Park · William
- The Beast
- Sweet November · Edgar Price
- Cry Baby Lane · Mr. Bennett
- Stardom · Blaine De Castillon
- Jason and the Argonauts · Aertes
- Innocents · Robert Denright
- The Road to 'Dracula' · Self
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Al Baker
- The Ninth Gate · Boris Balkan
- Alegría · Fleur
- I'm Losing You · Perry Needham Krohn
- Small Soldiers · Archer (Voice)
- Lolita · Clare Quilty
- The Greatest Pharaohs · Narrator
- Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts · Narrator
- Eddie · Wild Bill Burgess
- Moses · Mermefta
- Cutthroat Island · Dawg
- Bad Company · Vic Grimes
- Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage · Narrator
- Junior · Noah Banes
- Doomsday Gun · Dr. Gerald Bull
- Brainscan · Detective Hayden