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).
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Movies (44)
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
Thanks (Crew)
2025
Angry Neighbors
as Harry March
2022
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
The Trial of the Chicago 7
as Judge Julius Hoffman
2020
Love, Antosha
as Self
2019
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
2019
Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding
as Self
2018
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
2017
Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
as Self - Actor
2017
Youth in Oregon
as Raymond Engersol
2017
Captain Fantastic
as Jack Bertrang
2016
All the Way
as Sen. Richard Russell
2016
Mike Nichols: An American Master
as Self
2016
The Driftless Area
as Tim Geer
2015
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
The Prophet
as Pasha (voice)
2014
Grace of Monaco
as Father Francis Tucker
2014
5 to 7
as Sam Bloom
2014
Draft Day
as Anthony Molina
2014
Parts Per Billion
as Andy
2014
Muppets Most Wanted
as Beefeater Vicar
2014
Noah
as Og (voice)
2014
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as Chief Justice Warren Burger
2013
Genius on Hold
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013
The Time Being
as Warner Dax
2012
Robot & Frank
as Frank
2012
Unknown
as Rodney Cole
2011
All Good Things
as Sanford Marks
2010
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
as Perry White (archive footage)
2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Lewis Zabel
2010
The Box
as Arlington Steward
2009
The Tale of Despereaux
as Mayor (voice)
2008
Frost/Nixon
as Richard Nixon
2008
The Caller
as Jimmy Stevens
2008
Objects and Memory
as Narrator
2008
Starting Out in the Evening
as Leonard Schiller
2007
Return to Rajapur
as Ned Bears
2006
Crossroads
as Father Tew
2006
Superman Returns
as Perry White
2006
The Water Is Wide
as Superintendent
2006
King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
2006
Capitol Law
as Managing Partner
2006
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as William Paley
2005
Back in the Day
as Lieutenant Hudson
2005
