Frank Langella
Born: 1938-01-01 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost ... (Thanks)
2022
- Angry Neighbors as Harry March
2021
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2020
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Judge Julius Hoffman
2019
- Love, Antosha as Self
- It Takes a Lunatic as Self
2018
- Kidding as Sebastian Piccirillo
- Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding as Self
2017
- Marcians as Self - Interviewee
- Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe as Self - Actor
- Youth in Oregon as Raymond Engersol
2016
- Captain Fantastic as Jack Bertrang
- All the Way as Sen. Richard Russell
- Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
2015
- The Driftless Area as Tim Geer
2014
- Noah as Og (voice)
- Muppets Most Wanted as Beefeater Vicar
- Draft Day as Anthony Molina
- 5 to 7 as Sam Bloom
- Grace of Monaco as Father Francis Tucker
- Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet as Pasha (voice)
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Parts Per Billion as Andy
2013
- The Americans as Gabriel
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Chief Justice Warren Burger
- Genius on Hold as Self - Narrator (voice)
2012
- Robot & Frank as Frank
- The Time Being as Warner Dax
2011
- Unknown as Rodney Cole
2010
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps as Lewis Zabel
- All Good Things as Sanford Marks
- Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics as Perry White (archive footage)
2009
- The Box as Arlington Steward
2008
- The Tale of Despereaux as Mayor (voice)
- Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
- The Caller as Jimmy Stevens
- Objects and Memory as Narrator
2007
- Starting Out in the Evening as Leonard Schiller
2006
- Superman Returns as Perry White
- 10.5: Apocalypse as Dr. Earl Hill
- Crossroads as Father Tew
- The Water Is Wide as Superintendent
- Capitol Law as Managing Partner
- Return to Rajapur as Ned Bears
- King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
2005
- American Dad! as Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)
- Unscripted as Goddard
- Kitchen Confidential as Pino
- Good Night, and Good Luck. as William Paley
- Back in the Day as Lieutenant Hudson
- Now You See It... as Max
- How You Look to Me as Professor Driskoll
2004
- House of D as Reverend Duncan
- The Revamping of Dracula as Self
2003
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 111 Gramercy Park as William
- Inside High Noon as Narrator (voice)
2001
- Sweet November as Edgar Price
- The Beast
2000
- Jason and the Argonauts as Aertes
- Stardom as Blaine De Castillon
- Innocents as Robert Denright
- Cry Baby Lane as Mr. Bennett
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Al Baker
- The Ninth Gate as Boris Balkan
- Alegría as Fleur
- The Road to 'Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
1998
- Small Soldiers as Archer (voice)
- I'm Losing You as Perry Needham Krohn
1997
- Lolita as Clare Quilty
- The Greatest Pharaohs as Narrator
1996
- Moses as Mermefta
- Eddie as Wild Bill Burgess
- Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts as Narrator
1995
- Cutthroat Island as Dawg
- Bad Company as Vic Grimes
1994
- Junior as Noah Banes
- Brainscan as Detective Hayden
- Doomsday Gun as Dr. Gerald Bull
- Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Narrator
1993
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Minister Jaro
- Dave as Bob Alexander
- Body of Evidence as Jeffrey Roston
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise as Santangel
- Lincoln as John Wilkes Booth (voice)
1991
- True Identity as Leland Carver
1990
1988
- And God Created Woman as James Tiernan
1987
- Masters of the Universe as Skeletor
1986
- The Men's Club as Harold Canterbury
- Liberty as Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
1983
- I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind as Leonardo da Vinci
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981
- Sphinx as Akmed Khazzan
- Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner as Sherlock Holmes
1980
- Those Lips, Those Eyes as Harry Crystal
1979
- Dracula as Count Dracula
1977
- The Prince of Homburg as The Prince of Homburg
1976
- The Eccentricities of a Nightingale as John Buchanan
- The American Woman: Portraits of Courage as John Adams
1975
- The Swiss Family Robinson
- The Seagull as Konstantin Treplev
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- The Mark of Zorro as Don Diego / Zorro
1972
- The Wrath of God as Thomas De La Plata
1971
- Great Performances as Konstantin Treplev
- The Deadly Trap as Philippe
1970
- Diary of a Mad Housewife as George Prager
- The Twelve Chairs as Ostap Bender
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Henry Piedmont
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee