Frank Langella
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
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
American Dad!
2005
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Jason and the Argonauts
2000
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
Great Performances
1971
Great Performances
1971
Great Performances
1971
Golden Globe Awards
1944
0Tony Awards
1956
0Tony Awards
1956
Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Al Baker · 1999
American Dad!
as Commodore Francis Stoat (voice) · 2005
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self · 1961
Jason and the Argonauts
as Aertes · 2000
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
· 1992
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as Minister Jaro · 1993
Great Performances
as Konstantin Treplev · 1971
Great Performances
as John Buchanan · 1971
Great Performances
as The Prince of Homburg · 1971
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1944
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1956
The Americans
as Gabriel · 2013
Dinah!
as Self · 1974
Film '72
as Self · 1971
Lolita
as Clare Quilty · 1997
Kidding
as Sebastian Piccirillo · 2018
Marcians
as Self - Interviewee · 2017
NET Playhouse
as Benito Cereno · 1966
Superman Returns
as Perry White · 2006
The Ninth Gate
as Boris Balkan · 1999
Captain Fantastic
as Jack Bertrang · 2016
Kitchen Confidential
as Pino · 2005
Noah
as Og (voice) · 2014
Small Soldiers
as Archer (voice) · 1998
Masters of the Universe
as Skeletor · 1987
Unscripted
as Goddard · 2005
The Tale of Despereaux
as Mayor (voice) · 2008
Unknown
as Rodney Cole · 2011
Sweet November
as Edgar Price · 2001
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Lewis Zabel · 2010
The Trial of the Chicago 7
as Judge Julius Hoffman · 2020
Cutthroat Island
as Dawg · 1995
The Swiss Family Robinson
· 1975
Muppets Most Wanted
as Beefeater Vicar · 2014
All Good Things
as Sanford Marks · 2010
10.5: Apocalypse
as Dr. Earl Hill · 2006
Frost/Nixon
as Richard Nixon · 2008
Draft Day
as Anthony Molina · 2014
1492: Conquest of Paradise
as Santangel · 1992
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dr. Henry Piedmont · 1951
The Box
as Arlington Steward · 2009
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as William Paley · 2005
Junior
as Noah Banes · 1994
Grace of Monaco
as Father Francis Tucker · 2014
Moses
as Mermefta · 1996
Body of Evidence
as Jeffrey Roston · 1993
Dave
as Bob Alexander · 1993
Robot & Frank
as Frank · 2012
House of D
as Reverend Duncan · 2004
All the Way
as Sen. Richard Russell · 2016
Now You See It...
as Max · 2005
The Beast
· 2001
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
as Pasha (voice) · 2014
5 to 7
as Sam Bloom · 2014
Love, Antosha
as Self · 2019
And God Created Woman
as James Tiernan · 1988
Brainscan
as Detective Hayden · 1994
The Twelve Chairs
as Ostap Bender · 1970
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2014
Eddie
as Wild Bill Burgess · 1996
The Mark of Zorro
as Don Diego / Zorro · 1974
I'm Losing You
as Perry Needham Krohn · 1998
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
Angry Neighbors
as Harry March · 2022
The Deadly Trap
as Philippe · 1971
Dracula
as Count Dracula · 1979
Back in the Day
as Lieutenant Hudson · 2005
Sphinx
as Akmed Khazzan · 1981
Alegría
as Fleur · 1999
Bad Company
as Vic Grimes · 1995
Diary of a Mad Housewife
as George Prager · 1970
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
as Perry White (archive footage) · 2010
Night of 100 Stars
as Self · 1982
Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
as Self - Actor · 2017
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self · 2021
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as Chief Justice Warren Burger · 2013
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self · 2019
Parts Per Billion
as Andy · 2014
The Wrath of God
as Thomas De La Plata · 1972
Mike Nichols: An American Master
as Self · 2016
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self · 2003
The Men's Club
as Harold Canterbury · 1986
The Driftless Area
as Tim Geer · 2015
Doomsday Gun
as Dr. Gerald Bull · 1994
Stardom
as Blaine De Castillon · 2000
True Identity
as Leland Carver · 1991
Starting Out in the Evening
as Leonard Schiller · 2007
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Narrator · 1994
The Greatest Pharaohs
as Narrator · 1997
Youth in Oregon
as Raymond · 2017
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
as John Buchanan · 1976
The Revamping of Dracula
as Self · 2004
111 Gramercy Park
as William · 2003
The Caller
as Jimmy Stevens · 2008
Crossroads
as Father Tew · 2006
Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
as Sherlock Holmes · 1981
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
as Self · 1990
Those Lips, Those Eyes
as Harry Crystal · 1980
Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts
as Narrator · 1996
The Time Being
as Warner Dax · 2012
Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding
as Self · 2018
The Water Is Wide
as Superintendent · 2006
Innocents
as Robert Denright · 2000
The Prince of Homburg
as The Prince of Homburg · 1977
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
as John Adams · 1976
Inside High Noon
as Narrator (voice) · 2003
The Road to 'Dracula'
as Self (archive footage) · 1999
Lincoln
as John Wilkes Booth (voice) · 1992
Cry Baby Lane
as Mr. Bennett · 2000
Return to Rajapur
as Ned Bears · 2006
How You Look to Me
as Professor Driskoll · 2005
Liberty
as Frederic Auguste Bartholdi · 1986
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
as Leonardo da Vinci · 1983
The Seagull
as Konstantin Treplev · 1975
Capitol Law
as Managing Partner · 2006
King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
· 2006
The Beast in the Jungle
The Magic Balloon
· 1990
Objects and Memory
as Narrator · 2008
Genius on Hold
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2013