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

• 2025Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost — Thanks
• 2022Angry Neighbors — Harry March
• 2020The Trial of the Chicago 7 — Judge Julius Hoffman
• Kidding — Sebastian Piccirillo
• 2017Youth in Oregon — Raymond
• 2016All the Way — Sen. Richard Russell
• 2016Captain Fantastic — Jack Bertrang
• 2015The Driftless Area — Tim Geer
• 20145 to 7 — Sam Bloom
• 2014Draft Day — Anthony Molina
• 2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films — Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2014Grace of Monaco — Father Francis Tucker
• 2014Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet — Pasha (voice)
• 2014Muppets Most Wanted — Beefeater Vicar
• 2014Noah — Og (voice)
• 2014Parts Per Billion — Andy
• 2013Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight — Chief Justice Warren Burger
• The Americans — Gabriel
• 2012Robot & Frank — Frank
• 2012The Time Being — Warner Dax
• 2011Unknown — Rodney Cole
• 2010All Good Things — Sanford Marks
• 2010Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics — Perry White (archive footage)
• 2010Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps — Lewis Zabel
• 2009The Box — Arlington Steward
• 2008Frost/Nixon — Richard Nixon
• 2008Objects and Memory — Narrator
• 2008The Caller — Jimmy Stevens
• 2008The Tale of Despereaux — Mayor (voice)
• 2007Starting Out in the Evening — Leonard Schiller
• 10.5: Apocalypse — Dr. Earl Hill
• 2006Capitol Law — Managing Partner
• 2006Crossroads — Father Tew
• 2006King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
• 2006Return to Rajapur — Ned Bears
• 2006Superman Returns — Perry White
• 2006The Water Is Wide — Superintendent
• American Dad! — Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)
• 2005Back in the Day — Lieutenant Hudson
• 2005Good Night, and Good Luck. — William Paley
• 2005How You Look to Me — Professor Driskoll
• Kitchen Confidential — Pino
• 2005Now You See It... — Max
• Unscripted — Goddard
• 2004House of D — Reverend Duncan
• 2003111 Gramercy Park — William
• 2003Inside High Noon — Narrator (voice)
• 2001Sweet November — Edgar Price
• The Beast
• 2000Cry Baby Lane — Mr. Bennett
• 2000Innocents — Robert Denright
• Jason and the Argonauts — Aertes
• 2000Stardom — Blaine De Castillon
• 1999Alegría — Fleur
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Al Baker
• 1999The Ninth Gate — Boris Balkan
• 1998I'm Losing You — Perry Needham Krohn
• 1998Small Soldiers — Archer (voice)
• 1997Lolita — Clare Quilty
• The Greatest Pharaohs — Narrator
• 1996Eddie — Wild Bill Burgess
• Moses — Mermefta
• Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts — Narrator
• 1995Bad Company — Vic Grimes
• 1995Cutthroat Island — Dawg
• 1994Brainscan — Detective Hayden
• 1994Doomsday Gun — Dr. Gerald Bull
• 1994Junior — Noah Banes
• 1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage — Narrator
• 1993Body of Evidence — Jeffrey Roston
• 1993Dave — Bob Alexander
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Minister Jaro
• 19921492: Conquest of Paradise — Santangel
• 1992Lincoln — John Wilkes Booth (voice)
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1991True Identity — Leland Carver
• 1990The Magic Balloon
• 1988And God Created Woman — James Tiernan
• 1987Masters of the Universe — Skeletor
• 1986Liberty — Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
• 1986The Men's Club — Harold Canterbury
• 1983I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind — Leonardo da Vinci
• 1981Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner — Sherlock Holmes
• 1981Sphinx — Akmed Khazzan
• 1980Those Lips, Those Eyes — Harry Crystal
• 1979Dracula — Count Dracula
• 1977The Prince of Homburg — The Prince of Homburg
• 1976The American Woman: Portraits of Courage — John Adams
• 1976The Eccentricities of a Nightingale — John Buchanan
• 1975The Seagull — Konstantin Treplev
• The Swiss Family Robinson
• 1974The Mark of Zorro — Don Diego / Zorro
• 1972The Wrath of God — Thomas De La Plata
• Great Performances — Konstantin Treplev, John Buchanan, The Prince of Homburg
• 1971The Deadly Trap — Philippe
• 1970Diary of a Mad Housewife — George Prager
• 1970The Twelve Chairs — Ostap Bender
• NET Playhouse — Benito Cereno
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Dr. Henry Piedmont
• The Beast in the Jungle

Appearances as themselves (19)

• 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
• 2019It Takes a Lunatic — Self
• 2019Love, Antosha — Self
• 2018Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding — Self
• Marcians — Self - Interviewee
• 2017Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe — Self - Actor
• 2016Mike Nichols: An American Master — Self
• 2013Genius on Hold — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2004The Revamping of Dracula — Self
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• 1999The Road to 'Dracula' — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream — Self
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner, Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
• Broadway: The Next Generation — Self