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

• Good Night, and Good Luck. as William Paley
• Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
• Lolita as Clare Quilty
• 5 to 7 as Sam Bloom
• Muppets Most Wanted as Beefeater Vicar
• Captain Fantastic as Jack Bertrang
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Judge Julius Hoffman
• Cutthroat Island as Dawg
• The Ninth Gate as Boris Balkan
• Superman Returns as Perry White

TV

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Al Baker
• The Americans as Gabriel
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Minister Jaro
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Dr. Henry Piedmont
• The Swiss Family Robinson
• The Beast
• The Greatest Pharaohs as Narrator
• Unscripted as Goddard Fulton
• Kitchen Confidential as Pino