Frank Langella
Acting • Born 1938-01-01
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).
Filmography
118 credits
Cutthroat Island
Movie • 1995
Dawg
The Ninth Gate
Movie • 1999
Boris Balkan
Superman Returns
Movie • 2006
Perry White
Body of Evidence
Movie • 1993
Jeffrey Roston
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Movie • 2005
William Paley
Sweet November
Movie • 2001
Edgar Price
Eddie
Movie • 1996
Wild Bill Burgess
The Box
Movie • 2009
Arlington Steward
Small Soldiers
Movie • 1998
Archer (voice)
Dave
Movie • 1993
Bob Alexander
Junior
Movie • 1994
Noah Banes
Frost/Nixon
Movie • 2008
Richard Nixon
Masters of the Universe
Movie • 1987
Skeletor
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Movie • 1976
John Adams
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Movie • 1970
George Prager
The Twelve Chairs
Movie • 1970
Ostap Bender
Now You See It...
Movie • 2005
Max
Dracula
Movie • 1979
Count Dracula
Lolita
Movie • 1997
Clare Quilty
Objects and Memory
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Starting Out in the Evening
Movie • 2007
Leonard Schiller
Back in the Day
Movie • 2005
Lieutenant Hudson
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Movie • 2010
Lewis Zabel
Bad Company
Movie • 1995
Vic Grimes
Brainscan
Movie • 1994
Detective Hayden
Innocents
Movie • 2000
Robert Denright
And God Created Woman
Movie • 1988
James Tiernan
The Caller
Movie • 2008
Jimmy Stevens
Doomsday Gun
Movie • 1994
Dr. Gerald Bull
All Good Things
Movie • 2010
Sanford Marks
Stardom
Movie • 2000
Blaine De Castillon
Sphinx
Movie • 1981
Akmed Khazzan
Unknown
Movie • 2011
Rodney Cole
The Wrath of God
Movie • 1972
Thomas De La Plata
Noah
Movie • 2014
Og (voice)
Cry Baby Lane
Movie • 2000
Mr. Bennett
Robot & Frank
Movie • 2012
Frank
True Identity
Movie • 1991
Leland Carver
The Men's Club
Movie • 1986
Harold Canterbury
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie • 2003
Self
Alegría
Movie • 1999
Fleur
Those Lips, Those Eyes
Movie • 1980
Harry Crystal
The Deadly Trap
Movie • 1971
Philippe
The Mark of Zorro
Movie • 1974
Don Diego / Zorro
Draft Day
Movie • 2014
Anthony Molina
Genius on Hold
Movie • 2013
Self - Narrator (voice)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Movie • 2013
Chief Justice Warren Burger
Grace of Monaco
Movie • 2014
Father Francis Tucker
5 to 7
Movie • 2014
Sam Bloom
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Movie • 1976
John Buchanan
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Movie • 1992
Santangel
Parts Per Billion
Movie • 2014
Andy
Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
Movie • 1981
Sherlock Holmes
I'm Losing You
Movie • 1998
Perry Needham Krohn
The Driftless Area
Movie • 2015
Tim Geer
Muppets Most Wanted
Movie • 2014
Beefeater Vicar
The Tale of Despereaux
Movie • 2008
Mayor (voice)
How You Look to Me
Movie • 2005
Professor Driskoll
Captain Fantastic
Movie • 2016
Jack Bertrang
Crossroads
Movie • 2006
Father Tew
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
Movie • 2014
Pasha (voice)
Angry Neighbors
Movie • 2022
Harry March
House of D
Movie • 2004
Reverend Duncan
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie
Self
Youth in Oregon
Movie • 2017
Raymond Engersol
All the Way
Movie • 2016
Sen. Richard Russell
111 Gramercy Park
Movie • 2003
William
The Magic Balloon
Movie • 1990
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Movie • 2016
Self
The Water Is Wide
Movie • 2006
Superintendent
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Movie • 1990
Self
Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Movie • 2017
Self - Actor
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Capitol Law
Movie • 2006
Managing Partner
Inside High Noon
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
The Prince of Homburg
Movie • 1977
The Prince of Homburg
Return to Rajapur
Movie • 2006
Ned Bears
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Movie • 2020
Judge Julius Hoffman
It Takes a Lunatic
Movie • 2019
Self
Love, Antosha
Movie • 2019
Self
Liberty
Movie • 1986
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
The Revamping of Dracula
Movie • 2004
Self
The Seagull
Movie • 1975
Konstantin Treplev
King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
Movie • 2006
The Beast in the Jungle
Movie
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Movie • 2010
Perry White (archive footage)
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
Movie • 1983
Leonardo da Vinci
The Road to 'Dracula'
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
The Time Being
Movie • 2012
Warner Dax
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
John Wilkes Booth (voice)
Night of 100 Stars
Movie • 1982
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie • 2021
Self
Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding
Movie • 2018
Self
Moses
Movie • 1995
Mermefta
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Movie • 2014
Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Al Baker
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Dr. Henry Piedmont
The Swiss Family Robinson
TV • 1975
The Beast
TV • 2001
The Greatest Pharaohs
TV • 1997
Narrator
Unscripted
TV • 2005
Goddard Fulton
Kitchen Confidential
TV • 2005
Pino
The Americans
TV • 2013
Gabriel
Jason and the Argonauts
TV • 2000
Aertes
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Kidding
TV • 2018
Sebastian Piccirillo
10.5: Apocalypse
TV • 2006
Dr. Earl Hill
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV • 1993
Minister Jaro
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)
Moses
TV • 1996
Merneptah
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Konstantin Treplev
Great Performances
TV • 1971
John Buchanan
Great Performances
TV • 1971
The Prince of Homburg
Marcians
TV • 2017
Self - Interviewee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts
TV • 1996
Narrator