
Frank Langella
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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
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Lolita (1997)
as Clare Quilty

Captain Fantastic (2016)
as Jack Bertrang

The Ninth Gate (1999)
as Boris Balkan

Superman Returns (2006)
as Perry White

Noah (2014)
as Og (voice)

Small Soldiers (1998)
as Archer (voice)

Sweet November (2001)
as Edgar Price

Unknown (2011)
as Rodney Cole

Masters of the Universe (1987)
as Skeletor

The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
as Mayor (voice)

Cutthroat Island (1995)
as Dawg

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
as Lewis Zabel

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
as Judge Julius Hoffman

All Good Things (2010)
as Sanford Marks

Draft Day (2014)
as Anthony Molina

The Box (2009)
as Arlington Steward

Frost/Nixon (2008)
as Richard Nixon

Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
as Beefeater Vicar

Body of Evidence (1993)
as Jeffrey Roston

Grace of Monaco (2014)
as Father Francis Tucker

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
as Santangel

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
as William Paley

Dave (1993)
as Bob Alexander

Junior (1994)
as Noah Banes

Now You See It... (2005)
as Max

All the Way (2016)
as Sen. Richard Russell

Robot & Frank (2012)
as Frank

House of D (2004)
as Reverend Duncan

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2014)
as Pasha (voice)

Love, Antosha (2019)
as Self

Eddie (1996)
as Wild Bill Burgess

The Twelve Chairs (1970)
as Ostap Bender

And God Created Woman (1988)
as James Tiernan

Back in the Day (2005)
as Lieutenant Hudson

Angry Neighbors (2022)
as Harry March

The Deadly Trap (1971)
as Philippe

Sphinx (1981)
as Akmed Khazzan

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
as Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)

5 to 7 (2014)
as Sam Bloom

Brainscan (1994)
as Detective Hayden

Dracula (1979)
as Count Dracula

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)
as Narrator

Broadway: The Next Generation (—)
as Self

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010)
as Perry White (archive footage)

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
as Self

Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self

Doomsday Gun (1994)
as Dr. Gerald Bull

The Men's Club (1986)
as Harold Canterbury

I'm Losing You (1998)
as Perry Needham Krohn

Alegría (1999)
as Fleur

Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)
as Self

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
as Chief Justice Warren Burger

Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2017)
as Self - Actor

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
as Self

The Wrath of God (1972)
as Thomas De La Plata

The Mark of Zorro (1974)
as Don Diego / Zorro

Bad Company (1995)
as Vic Grimes

Stardom (2000)
as Blaine De Castillon

True Identity (1991)
as Leland Carver

Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
as George Prager

Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
as Leonard Schiller

It Takes a Lunatic (2019)
as Self

The Driftless Area (2015)
as Tim Geer

Youth in Oregon (2017)
as Raymond

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1976)
as John Buchanan

Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner (1981)
as Sherlock Holmes

The Time Being (2012)
as Warner Dax

The Water Is Wide (2006)
as Superintendent

Return to Rajapur (2006)
as Ned Bears

Parts Per Billion (2014)
as Andy

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage (1976)
as John Adams

Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
as Harry Crystal

Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding (2018)
as Self

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (1990)
as Self

111 Gramercy Park (2003)
as William

The Caller (2008)
as Jimmy Stevens

Inside High Noon (2003)
as Narrator (voice)

The Prince of Homburg (1977)
as The Prince of Homburg

The Revamping of Dracula (2004)
as Self

Cry Baby Lane (2000)
as Mr. Bennett

The Road to 'Dracula' (1999)
as Self (archive footage)

Innocents (2000)
as Robert Denright

Liberty (1986)
as Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Crossroads (2006)
as Father Tew
Lincoln (1992)
as John Wilkes Booth (voice)

How You Look to Me (2005)
as Professor Driskoll
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind (1983)
as Leonardo da Vinci

King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed (2006)
Actor

Capitol Law (2006)
as Managing Partner
The Beast in the Jungle (—)
Actor

The Seagull (1975)
as Konstantin Treplev

Genius on Hold (2013)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Magic Balloon (1990)
Actor
Objects and Memory (2008)
as Narrator





