Frank Langella
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1938 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- 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).
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Filmography
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie · as Self
The Beast in the Jungle
Movie
Angry Neighbors
Movie · as Harry March
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie · as Self
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Movie · as Judge Julius Hoffman
It Takes a Lunatic
Movie · as Self
Love, Antosha
Movie · as Self
Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding
Movie · as Self
Kidding
TV · as Sebastian Piccirillo · 20 eps
Youth in Oregon
Movie · as Raymond
Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Movie · as Self - Actor
Marcians
TV · as Self - Interviewee · 1 ep
Captain Fantastic
Movie · as Jack Bertrang
All the Way
Movie · as Sen. Richard Russell
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Movie · as Self
The Driftless Area
Movie · as Tim Geer
Noah
Movie · as Og (voice)
Draft Day
Movie · as Anthony Molina
Grace of Monaco
Movie · as Francis Tucker
5 to 7
Movie · as Sam Bloom
Parts Per Billion
Movie · as Andy
Muppets Most Wanted
Movie · as Beefeater Vicar
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
Movie · as Pasha (voice)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Movie · as Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Genius on Hold
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Movie · as Chief Justice Warren Burger
The Americans
TV · as Gabriel · 34 eps
Robot & Frank
Movie · as Frank
The Time Being
Movie · as Warner Dax
Unknown
Movie · as Rodney Cole
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Movie · as Lewis Zabel
All Good Things
Movie · as Sanford Marks
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Movie · as Perry White (archive footage)
The Box
Movie · as Arlington Steward
Frost/Nixon
Movie · as Richard Nixon
Objects and Memory
Movie · as Narrator
The Caller
Movie · as Jimmy Stevens
The Tale of Despereaux
Movie · as Mayor (voice)
Starting Out in the Evening
Movie · as Leonard Schiller
Superman Returns
Movie · as Perry White
Crossroads
Movie · as Father Tew
The Water Is Wide
Movie · as Superintendent
Capitol Law
Movie · as Managing Partner
Return to Rajapur
Movie · as Ned Bears
King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
Movie
10.5: Apocalypse
TV · as Dr. Earl Hill · 2 eps
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Movie · as William Paley
Now You See It...
Movie · as Max
Back in the Day
Movie · as Lieutenant Hudson
How You Look to Me
Movie · as Professor Driskoll
Unscripted
TV · as Goddard · 10 eps
Kitchen Confidential
TV · as Pino · 6 eps
American Dad!
TV · as Commodore Francis Stoat (voice) · 1 ep
House of D
Movie · as Reverend Duncan
The Revamping of Dracula
Movie · as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie · as Self
111 Gramercy Park
Movie · as William
Inside High Noon
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Sweet November
Movie · as Edgar Price
The Beast
TV · 6 eps
Innocents
Movie · as Robert Denright
Stardom
Movie · as Blaine De Castillon
Cry Baby Lane
Movie · as Mr. Bennett
Jason and the Argonauts
TV · as Aertes · 2 eps
The Ninth Gate
Movie · as Boris Balkan
Alegría
Movie · as Fleur
The Road to 'Dracula'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Al Baker · 1 ep
Small Soldiers
Movie · as Archer (voice)
I'm Losing You
Movie · as Perry Needham Krohn
Lolita
Movie · as Clare Quilty
The Greatest Pharaohs
TV · as Narrator · 4 eps
Eddie
Movie · as Wild Bill Burgess
Moses
TV · as Mermefta · 2 eps
Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts
TV · as Narrator · 4 eps
Cutthroat Island
Movie · as Dawg
Bad Company
Movie · as Vic Grimes
Junior
Movie · as Noah Banes
Brainscan
Movie · as Detective Hayden
Doomsday Gun
Movie · as Dr. Gerald Bull
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie · as Narrator
Body of Evidence
Movie · as Jeffrey Roston
Dave
Movie · as Bob Alexander
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV · as Minister Jaro · 3 eps
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Movie · as Santangel
Lincoln
Movie · as John Wilkes Booth (voice)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 1 ep
True Identity
Movie · as Leland Carver
The Magic Balloon
Movie
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Movie · as Self
And God Created Woman
Movie · as James Tiernan
Masters of the Universe
Movie · as Skeletor
The Men's Club
Movie · as Harold Canterbury
Liberty
Movie · as Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
Movie · as Leonardo da Vinci
Night of 100 Stars
Movie · as Self
Sphinx
Movie · as Akmed Khazzan
Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
Movie · as Sherlock Holmes
Those Lips, Those Eyes
Movie · as Harry Crystal
Dracula
Movie · as Count Dracula
The Prince of Homburg
Movie · as The Prince of Homburg
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Movie · as John Adams
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Movie · as John Buchanan
The Seagull
Movie · as Konstantin Treplev
The Swiss Family Robinson
TV · 2 eps
The Mark of Zorro
Movie · as Don Diego / Zorro
Dinah!
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Wrath of God
Movie · as Thomas De La Plata
The Deadly Trap
Movie · as Philippe
Great Performances
TV · as Konstantin Treplev, John Buchanan, The Prince of Homburg · 1 ep
Film '72
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Movie · as George Prager
The Twelve Chairs
Movie · as Ostap Bender
NET Playhouse
TV · as Benito Cereno · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Winner, Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee · 4 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Dr. Henry Piedmont · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep