
Frank Langella
Department: 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).
Known For

Cutthroat Island
1995

The Ninth Gate
1999

Superman Returns
2006

Body of Evidence
1993

Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005

Sweet November
2001

Eddie
1996

The Box
2009

Small Soldiers
1998

Dave
1993

Junior
1994

Frost/Nixon
2008

Masters of the Universe
1987

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
1976

Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970

The Twelve Chairs
1970

Now You See It...
2005

Dracula
1979

Lolita
1997

Objects and Memory
2008

Starting Out in the Evening
2007

Back in the Day
2005

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010

Bad Company
1995

Brainscan
1994

Innocents
2000

And God Created Woman
1988

The Caller
2008

Doomsday Gun
1994

All Good Things
2010

Stardom
2000

Sphinx
1981

Unknown
2011

The Wrath of God
1972

Noah
2014

Cry Baby Lane
2000

Robot & Frank
2012

True Identity
1991

The Men's Club
1986

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003

Alegría
1999

Those Lips, Those Eyes
1980

The Deadly Trap
1971

The Mark of Zorro
1974

Draft Day
2014

Genius on Hold
2013

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013

Grace of Monaco
2014

5 to 7
2014

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
1976

1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992

Parts Per Billion
2014

Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
1981

I'm Losing You
1998

The Driftless Area
2015

Muppets Most Wanted
2014

The Tale of Despereaux
2008

How You Look to Me
2005

Captain Fantastic
2016

Crossroads
2006

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014

Angry Neighbors
2022

House of D
2004

Broadway: The Next Generation
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Youth in Oregon
2017

All the Way
2016

111 Gramercy Park
2003

The Magic Balloon
1990

Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016

The Water Is Wide
2006

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990

Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
2017

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994

Capitol Law
2006

Inside High Noon
2003

The Prince of Homburg
1977

Return to Rajapur
2006

The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020

It Takes a Lunatic
2019

Love, Antosha
2019

Liberty
1986

The Revamping of Dracula
2004

The Seagull
1975

King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
2006

The Beast in the Jungle
—

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010

I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
1983

The Road to 'Dracula'
1999

The Time Being
2012

Lincoln
1992

Night of 100 Stars
1982

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021

Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding
2018

Moses
1995

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The Swiss Family Robinson
1975

The Beast
2001

The Greatest Pharaohs
1997

Unscripted
2005

Kitchen Confidential
2005

The Americans
2013

Jason and the Argonauts
2000

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Kidding
2018

10.5: Apocalypse
2006

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993

Dinah!
1974

American Dad!
2005

Moses
1996

Great Performances
1971

Great Performances
1971

Great Performances
1971

Marcians
2017

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts
1996

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956