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