Frank Langella

CrewActor Jan 1 (age 88) Bayonne, New Jersey, USA 1944–2025 (81 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Captain Fantastic

Jack Bertrang

Film

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Judge Julius Hoffman

Film

Unknown

Rodney Cole

Film

The Americans

Gabriel

Film

Lolita

Clare Quilty

Film

The Ninth Gate

Boris Balkan

Film

Frost/Nixon

Richard Nixon

Film

Small Soldiers

Archer (voice)

Filmography

Acting (118)

Movies (95)

Angry Neighbors

2022

as Harry March

4.1

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

as Self

The Trial of the Chicago 7

2020

as Judge Julius Hoffman

Love, Antosha

as Self

It Takes a Lunatic

as Self

Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding

2018

as Self

Broadway: The Next Generation

2017

as Self

Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

as Self - Actor

Youth in Oregon

as Raymond Engersol

Captain Fantastic

as Jack Bertrang

All the Way

as Sen. Richard Russell

6.7

Mike Nichols: An American Master

as Self

The Driftless Area

as Tim Geer

Noah

as Og (voice)

Muppets Most Wanted

as Beefeater Vicar

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014

as Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Draft Day

as Anthony Molina

5 to 7

as Sam Bloom

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

2014

as Pasha (voice)

7.4

Grace of Monaco

2014

as Father Francis Tucker

Parts Per Billion

as Andy

Genius on Hold

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.5

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

2013

as Chief Justice Warren Burger

Robot & Frank

as Frank

The Time Being

as Warner Dax

Unknown

as Rodney Cole

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

as Lewis Zabel

All Good Things

as Sanford Marks

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

2010

as Perry White (archive footage)

6.9

The Box

2009

as Arlington Steward

5.6

The Tale of Despereaux

as Mayor (voice)

Frost/Nixon

as Richard Nixon

The Caller

as Jimmy Stevens

Objects and Memory

as Narrator

Starting Out in the Evening

as Leonard Schiller

Superman Returns

as Perry White

Crossroads

as Father Tew

King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed

Capitol Law

as Managing Partner

The Water Is Wide

as Superintendent

Return to Rajapur

as Ned Bears

Good Night, and Good Luck.

as William Paley

Now You See It...

as Max

Back in the Day

as Lieutenant Hudson

How You Look to Me

as Professor Driskoll

6.0

The Revamping of Dracula

as Self

House of D

as Reverend Duncan

Inside High Noon

as Narrator (voice)

111 Gramercy Park

as William

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

as Self

Sweet November

as Edgar Price

Stardom

as Blaine De Castillon

Innocents

as Robert Denright

Cry Baby Lane

as Mr. Bennett

The Ninth Gate

as Boris Balkan

Alegría

as Fleur

The Road to 'Dracula'

1999

as Self (archive footage)

Small Soldiers

as Archer (voice)

I'm Losing You

as Perry Needham Krohn

Lolita

as Clare Quilty

Eddie

as Wild Bill Burgess

Cutthroat Island

as Dawg

Moses

as Mermefta

Bad Company

as Vic Grimes

Junior

as Noah Banes

Brainscan

as Detective Hayden

Doomsday Gun

as Dr. Gerald Bull

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994

as Narrator

Body of Evidence

as Jeffrey Roston

Dave

as Bob Alexander

1492: Conquest of Paradise

1992

as Santangel

6.3

Lincoln

1992

as John Wilkes Booth (voice)

True Identity

as Leland Carver

The Magic Balloon

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

1990

as Self

6.5

And God Created Woman

1988

as James Tiernan

4.2

Masters of the Universe

1987

as Skeletor

5.7

Liberty

1986

as Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

5.0

The Men's Club

1986

as Harold Canterbury

3.8

I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind

1983

as Leonardo da Vinci

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

Sphinx

as Akmed Khazzan

Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner

1981

as Sherlock Holmes

Those Lips, Those Eyes

as Harry Crystal

Dracula

as Count Dracula

The Prince of Homburg

1977

as The Prince of Homburg

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

1976

as John Buchanan

8.3

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage

1976

as John Adams

The Seagull

1975

as Konstantin Treplev

The Mark of Zorro

1974

as Don Diego / Zorro

5.9

The Wrath of God

1972

as Thomas De La Plata

5.3

The Deadly Trap

1971

as Philippe

5.4

Diary of a Mad Housewife

as George Prager

The Twelve Chairs

as Ostap Bender

The Beast in the Jungle

Television (23)

Kidding

2018

as Sebastian Piccirillo

7.6

Marcians

2017

as Self - Interviewee

The Americans

as Gabriel

The Americans

as Gabriel

10.5: Apocalypse

as Dr. Earl Hill

American Dad!

as Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)

Unscripted

as Goddard Fulton

Kitchen Confidential

as Pino

The Beast

Jason and the Argonauts

2000

as Aertes

6.3

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Al Baker

7.9

The Greatest Pharaohs

as Narrator

Moses

as Merneptah

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1993

as Minister Jaro

7.9

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992

5.4

The Swiss Family Robinson

Dinah!

as Self

Great Performances

as Konstantin Treplev

5.8

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Dr. Henry Piedmont

8.6

Golden Globe Awards

1944

as Self - Nominee

7.2

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

2025

Thanks

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