Frank Langella

Acting · Born 1938-01-01 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

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

• Cutthroat Island as Dawg
• The Ninth Gate as Boris Balkan
• Superman Returns as Perry White
• Body of Evidence as Jeffrey Roston
• Good Night, and Good Luck. as William Paley
• Sweet November as Edgar Price
• Eddie as Wild Bill Burgess
• The Box as Arlington Steward
• Small Soldiers as Archer (voice)
• Dave as Bob Alexander