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).
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Cutthroat Island
as Dawg
1995
The Ninth Gate
as Boris Balkan
1999
Superman Returns
as Perry White
2006
Body of Evidence
as Jeffrey Roston
1993
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as William Paley
2005
Sweet November
as Edgar Price
2001
Eddie
as Wild Bill Burgess
1996
The Box
as Arlington Steward
2009
Small Soldiers
as Archer (voice)
1998
Dave
as Bob Alexander
1993
Junior
as Noah Banes
1994
Frost/Nixon
as Richard Nixon
2008
Masters of the Universe
as Skeletor
1987
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
as John Adams
1976
Diary of a Mad Housewife
as George Prager
1970
The Twelve Chairs
as Ostap Bender
1970
Now You See It...
as Max
2005
Dracula
as Count Dracula
1979
Lolita
as Clare Quilty
1997
Objects and Memory
as Narrator
2008
TV Appearances
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Al Baker
1999
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dr. Henry Piedmont
1951
The Swiss Family Robinson
1975
The Beast
2001
The Greatest Pharaohs
as Narrator
1997
Unscripted
as Goddard
2005
Kitchen Confidential
as Pino
2005
The Americans
as Gabriel
2013
Jason and the Argonauts
as Aertes
2000
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
Kidding
as Sebastian Piccirillo
2018