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Frank Langella

Acting

Born January 1, 1938 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Also known as Frank A. Langella Jr. · فرانک لانگلا

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).

Awards & recognition

  • Sitges Grand Honorary Award · 2017
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 2016
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 2007
  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actor in a Play · 2002
  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actor in a Play · 1975
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  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 2012 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Actor · 2009 · nominated
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 2004 · nominated
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Play · 1978 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Captain Fantastic

2016as Jack Bertrang

The Americans

2013as Gabriel

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999as Al Baker

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1993as Minister Jaro

The Trial of the Chicago 7

2020as Judge Julius Hoffman

Kidding

2018as Sebastian Piccirillo

How You Look to Me

2005as Professor Driskoll

Love, Antosha

2019as Self

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

2014as Pasha (voice)

Frost/Nixon

2008as Richard Nixon

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014as Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)

5 to 7

2014as Sam Bloom

Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005as William Paley

Lolita

1997as Clare Quilty

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

2010as Perry White (archive footage)

The Water Is Wide

2006as Superintendent

American Dad!

2005as Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)

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

2017as Self - Actor

Robot & Frank

2012as Frank

Sweet November

2001as Edgar Price

All the Way

2016as Sen. Richard Russell

Draft Day

2014as Anthony Molina

Unknown

2011as Rodney Cole

Starting Out in the Evening

2007as Leonard Schiller

Small Soldiers

1998as Archer (voice)

Dave

1993as Bob Alexander

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

2025Thanks

The Ninth Gate

1999as Boris Balkan

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

2013as Chief Justice Warren Burger

Jason and the Argonauts

2000as Aertes

Dracula

1979as Count Dracula

Muppets Most Wanted

2014as Beefeater Vicar

House of D

2004as Reverend Duncan

1492: Conquest of Paradise

1992as Santangel

Brainscan

1994as Detective Hayden

Diary of a Mad Housewife

1970as George Prager

Youth in Oregon

2017as Raymond Engersol

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

2010as Lewis Zabel

All Good Things

2010as Sanford Marks

The Tale of Despereaux

2008as Mayor (voice)

Great Performances

1971as John Buchanan

Grace of Monaco

2014as Father Francis Tucker

Superman Returns

2006as Perry White

Cutthroat Island

1995as Dawg

Masters of the Universe

1987as Skeletor

Noah

2014as Og (voice)

10.5: Apocalypse

2006as Dr. Earl Hill

Crossroads

2006as Father Tew

Now You See It...

2005as Max

Sphinx

1981as Akmed Khazzan