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