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Frank Langella

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

Jan 1, 1938 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

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

Acting
2022Angry NeighborsHarry March
2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden AgeSelf
2020The Trial of the Chicago 7Judge Julius Hoffman
2019It Takes a LunaticSelf
2019Love, AntoshaSelf
2018Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of KiddingSelf
2018KiddingSebastian Piccirillo
2017Youth in OregonRaymond Engersol
2017Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the UniverseSelf - Actor
2017MarciansSelf - Interviewee
2016Captain FantasticJack Bertrang
2016All the WaySen. Richard Russell
2016Mike Nichols: An American MasterSelf
2015The Driftless AreaTim Geer
2014NoahOg (voice)
2014Draft DayAnthony Molina
2014Grace of MonacoFather Francis Tucker
20145 to 7Sam Bloom
2014Parts Per BillionAndy
2014Muppets Most WantedBeefeater Vicar
2014Kahlil Gibran's The ProphetPasha (voice)
2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon FilmsSkeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013Genius on HoldSelf - Narrator (voice)
2013Muhammad Ali's Greatest FightChief Justice Warren Burger
2013The AmericansGabriel
2012Robot & FrankFrank
2012The Time BeingWarner Dax
2011UnknownRodney Cole
2010Wall Street: Money Never SleepsLewis Zabel
2010All Good ThingsSanford Marks
2010Secret Origin: The Story of DC ComicsPerry White (archive footage)
2009The BoxArlington Steward
2008Frost/NixonRichard Nixon
2008Objects and MemoryNarrator
2008The CallerJimmy Stevens
2008The Tale of DespereauxMayor (voice)
2007Starting Out in the EveningLeonard Schiller
2006Superman ReturnsPerry White
2006CrossroadsFather Tew
2006The Water Is WideSuperintendent
2006Capitol LawManaging Partner
2006Return to RajapurNed Bears
2006King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
200610.5: ApocalypseDr. Earl Hill
2005Good Night, and Good Luck.William Paley
2005Now You See It...Max
2005Back in the DayLieutenant Hudson
2005How You Look to MeProfessor Driskoll
2005UnscriptedGoddard
2005Kitchen ConfidentialPino
2005American Dad!Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)
2004House of DReverend Duncan
2004The Revamping of DraculaSelf
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereSelf
2003111 Gramercy ParkWilliam
2003Inside High NoonNarrator (voice)
2001Sweet NovemberEdgar Price
2001The Beast
2000InnocentsRobert Denright
2000StardomBlaine De Castillon
2000Cry Baby LaneMr. Bennett
2000Jason and the ArgonautsAertes
1999The Ninth GateBoris Balkan
1999AlegríaFleur
1999The Road to 'Dracula'Self (archive footage)
1999Law & Order: Special Victims UnitAl Baker
1998Small SoldiersArcher (voice)
1998I'm Losing YouPerry Needham Krohn
1997LolitaClare Quilty
1997The Greatest PharaohsNarrator
1996EddieWild Bill Burgess
1996MosesMermefta
1996Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian CryptsNarrator
1995Cutthroat IslandDawg
1995Bad CompanyVic Grimes
1995MosesMermefta
1994JuniorNoah Banes
1994BrainscanDetective Hayden
1994Doomsday GunDr. Gerald Bull
1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American StageNarrator
1993Body of EvidenceJeffrey Roston
1993DaveBob Alexander
1993Star Trek: Deep Space NineMinister Jaro
19921492: Conquest of ParadiseSantangel
1992LincolnJohn Wilkes Booth (voice)
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1991True IdentityLeland Carver
1990The Magic Balloon
1990Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the DreamSelf
1988And God Created WomanJames Tiernan
1987Masters of the UniverseSkeletor
1986The Men's ClubHarold Canterbury
1986LibertyFrederic Auguste Bartholdi
1983I, Leonardo: A Journey of the MindLeonardo da Vinci
1982Night of 100 StarsSelf
1981SphinxAkmed Khazzan
1981Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice FaulknerSherlock Holmes
1980Those Lips, Those EyesHarry Crystal
1979DraculaCount Dracula
1977The Prince of HomburgThe Prince of Homburg
1976The American Woman: Portraits of CourageJohn Adams
1976The Eccentricities of a NightingaleJohn Buchanan
1975The SeagullKonstantin Treplev
1975The Swiss Family Robinson
1974The Mark of ZorroDon Diego / Zorro
1974Dinah!Self
1972The Wrath of GodThomas De La Plata
1971The Deadly TrapPhilippe
1971Great PerformancesKonstantin Treplev
1971Great PerformancesJohn Buchanan
1971Great PerformancesThe Prince of Homburg
1970Diary of a Mad HousewifeGeorge Prager
1970The Twelve ChairsOstap Bender
1961The Mike Douglas ShowSelf
1956Tony AwardsSelf - Winner
1956Tony AwardsSelf - Presenter
1956Tony AwardsSelf - Nominee
1951Hallmark Hall of FameDr. Henry Piedmont
1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee
-Broadway: The Next GenerationSelf
-The Beast in the Jungle
Crew
2025Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is LostThanks