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