Frank Langella
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).
Born: January 1, 1938
Place of Birth: Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Known For
Broadway: The Next Generation
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
The Greatest Pharaohs
Ancient Egypt's history stretches back thousands of years to the dawn of recorded time. This series traces this immense and rich history from the earliest dynasties, to the builders of the pyramids all the way through to Egypt's conquest by Alexander the Great. Come and explore the greatest civilization of all time.
Unscripted
Three young, struggling actors (played by three young, less-struggling actors) try to navigate the maze of agents, auditions and avarice that is Hollywood, frequently turning to their acting teacher for advice. As the title implies, the dialogue is mostly improvised, with situations based on the lives of the cast and creators.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.
Moses
Pharaoh Ramses II decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket on the Nile by his mother, is picked up by a princess and raised as the brother of the heir to the throne of Egypt.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Captain Fantastic
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.
The Americans
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
Filmography
as Harry March
as Judge Julius Hoffman
as Self
as Self
as Sebastian Piccirillo
as Self - Interviewee
as Raymond Engersol
as Jack Bertrang
as Sen. Richard Russell
as Tim Geer
as Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Pasha (voice)
as Father Francis Tucker
as Sam Bloom
as Anthony Molina
as Andy
as Beefeater Vicar
as Og (voice)
as Chief Justice Warren Burger
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Gabriel
as Warner Dax
as Frank
as Rodney Cole
as Sanford Marks
as Perry White (archive footage)
as Lewis Zabel
as Arlington Steward
as Mayor (voice)
as Richard Nixon
as Jimmy Stevens
as Leonard Schiller
as Ned Bears
as Father Tew
as Perry White
as Dr. Earl Hill
as Superintendent
as Managing Partner
as Pino
as William Paley
as Lieutenant Hudson
as Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)
as Max
as Goddard Fulton
as Professor Driskoll
as Self
as Reverend Duncan
as Narrator (voice)
as William
as Edgar Price
as Mr. Bennett
as Blaine De Castillon
as Aertes
as Robert Denright
as Self (archive footage)
as Al Baker
as Boris Balkan
as Fleur
as Perry Needham Krohn
as Archer (voice)
as Clare Quilty
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Wild Bill Burgess
as Merneptah
as Dawg
as Mermefta
as Vic Grimes
as Noah Banes
as Dr. Gerald Bull
as Detective Hayden
as Bob Alexander
as Jeffrey Roston
as Minister Jaro
as Santangel
as Leland Carver
as James Tiernan
as Skeletor
as Harold Canterbury
as Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
as Self
as Sherlock Holmes
as Akmed Khazzan
as Harry Crystal
as Count Dracula
as The Prince of Homburg
as John Buchanan
as John Adams
as Konstantin Treplev
as Don Diego / Zorro
as Self
as Thomas De La Plata
as Philippe
as Konstantin Treplev
as John Buchanan
as The Prince of Homburg
as Ostap Bender
as George Prager
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Winner
as Self - Nominee
as Dr. Henry Piedmont
as Self - Nominee