
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

Unknown (2011)
as Rodney Cole

Lolita (1997)
as Clare Quilty

Noah (2014)
as Og (voice)

Superman Returns (2006)
as Perry White

Small Soldiers (1998)
as Archer (voice)

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

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

Masters of the Universe (1987)
as Skeletor

Captain Fantastic (2016)
as Jack Bertrang

Sweet November (2001)
as Edgar Price

The Ninth Gate (1999)
as Boris Balkan

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
as Santangel

The Box (2009)
as Arlington Steward

Eddie (1996)
as Wild Bill Burgess

Love, Antosha (2019)
as Self

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

All Good Things (2010)
as Sanford Marks

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

Draft Day (2014)
as Anthony Molina

Dave (1993)
as Bob Alexander

Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
as Beefeater Vicar

Junior (1994)
as Noah Banes

Cutthroat Island (1995)
as Dawg

Doomsday Gun (1994)
as Dr. Gerald Bull

Body of Evidence (1993)
as Jeffrey Roston

Frost/Nixon (2008)
as Richard Nixon

House of D (2004)
as Reverend Duncan

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

Angry Neighbors (2022)
as Harry March

Alegría (1999)
as Fleur

Grace of Monaco (2014)
as Father Francis Tucker

And God Created Woman (1988)
as James Tiernan

Dracula (1979)
as Count Dracula

Sphinx (1981)
as Akmed Khazzan

Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)
as Self

Stardom (2000)
as Blaine De Castillon

All the Way (2016)
as Sen. Richard Russell

Robot & Frank (2012)
as Frank

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

Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
as George Prager

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

Brainscan (1994)
as Detective Hayden

5 to 7 (2014)
as Sam Bloom

The Caller (2008)
as Jimmy Stevens

The Twelve Chairs (1970)
as Ostap Bender

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

Bad Company (1995)
as Vic Grimes

The Driftless Area (2015)
as Tim Geer

The Deadly Trap (1971)
as Philippe

111 Gramercy Park (2003)
as William

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
as Self

Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self

Parts Per Billion (2014)
as Andy

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1976)
as John Buchanan

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

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

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

Broadway: The Next Generation (—)
as Self

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

Back in the Day (2005)
as Lieutenant Hudson

The Time Being (2012)
as Warner Dax

Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
as Leonard Schiller

The Men's Club (1986)
as Harold Canterbury

True Identity (1991)
as Leland Carver

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

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

Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
as Harry Crystal

The Water Is Wide (2006)
as Superintendent

It Takes a Lunatic (2019)
as Self

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

How You Look to Me (2005)
as Professor Driskoll

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

Liberty (1986)
as Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Innocents (2000)
as Robert Denright

Youth in Oregon (2017)
as Raymond

Crossroads (2006)
as Father Tew

Capitol Law (2006)
as Managing Partner

Inside High Noon (2003)
as Narrator (voice)

Cry Baby Lane (2000)
as Mr. Bennett

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

The Revamping of Dracula (2004)
as Self

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

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (1990)
as Self
Objects and Memory (2008)
as Narrator

Return to Rajapur (2006)
as Ned Bears

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

The Seagull (1975)
as Konstantin Treplev
Lincoln (1992)
as John Wilkes Booth (voice)
The Beast in the Jungle (—)
Actor
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind (1983)
as Leonardo da Vinci
The Magic Balloon (1990)
Actor

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

Genius on Hold (2013)
as Self - Narrator (voice)

King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed (2006)
Actor





