Frank Langella

Frank Langella

Birthday: 1938-01-01

Place of Birth: 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).

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Cutthroat Island
Cutthroat Island

Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure...

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The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to f...

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Superman Returns
Superman Returns

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those ...

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Body of Evidence
Body of Evidence

When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to ...

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Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good Night, and Good Luck.

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist wi...

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Sweet November
Sweet November

Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving ...

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Eddie
Eddie

Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketb...

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The Box
The Box

Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift,...

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Small Soldiers
Small Soldiers

When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their bat...

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Dave
Dave

A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret ...

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Junior
Junior

A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleag...

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Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel...

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Masters of the Universe
Masters of the Universe

When the evil Skeletor finds a mysterious power called the Cosmic Key, he becomes nearly invincible,...

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The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage

Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical mom...

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Diary of a Mad Housewife
Diary of a Mad Housewife

Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing law...

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The Twelve Chairs
The Twelve Chairs

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewe...

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Now You See It...
Now You See It...

While producing a reality TV show, a teenager meets a magician whose powers are real but put him in ...

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Dracula
Dracula

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attractio...

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Lolita
Lolita

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

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Objects and Memory
Objects and Memory

Using stories of items recovered or offered after 9/11 and other tragedies, this film explores the h...

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Starting Out in the Evening
Starting Out in the Evening

Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's...

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Back in the Day
Back in the Day

A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past...

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with dis...

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Bad Company
Bad Company

CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial...

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Brainscan
Brainscan

A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-...

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Innocents
Innocents

A traveling cellist gets involved with two disturbed sisters on their way to Seattle to tell their m...

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And God Created Woman
And God Created Woman

In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same titl...

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The Caller
The Caller

Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadl...

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Doomsday Gun
Doomsday Gun

Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable ...

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All Good Things
All Good Things

Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and ...

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Stardom
Stardom

A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous wor...

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Sphinx
Sphinx

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land ...

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Unknown
Unknown

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, ...

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The Wrath of God
The Wrath of God

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible fr...

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Noah
Noah

A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the com...

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Cry Baby Lane
Cry Baby Lane

Andrew and his older brother Carl enjoy listening to ghost stories that the local undertaker tells t...

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Robot & Frank
Robot & Frank

Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, whe...

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True Identity
True Identity

In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man....

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The Men's Club
The Men's Club

Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work....

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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...

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Alegría: An Enchanting Fable
Alegría: An Enchanting Fable

Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus e...

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Those Lips, Those Eyes
Those Lips, Those Eyes

A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams....

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The Deadly Trap
The Deadly Trap

An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris....

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The Mark of Zorro
The Mark of Zorro

The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threa...

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Draft Day
Draft Day

At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trade...

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Genius on Hold
Genius on Hold

The story of Walter L. Shaw, a telecommunications genius, and his son Walter T. Shaw, a ruthless jew...

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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the...

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Grace of Monaco
Grace of Monaco

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political...

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5 to 7
5 to 7

A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat di...

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The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic an...

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1492: Conquest of Paradise
1492: Conquest of Paradise

1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect o...

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Parts Per Billion
Parts Per Billion

The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life-altering decisions in the face...

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Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner

An adaptation of William Gillette's play about the great Detective, Sherlock Holmes....

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I'm Losing You
I'm Losing You

Based on Bruce Wagner's best selling novel, "I'm Losing You" is the gripping tale of a wealthy Los A...

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The Driftless Area
The Driftless Area

Pierre Hunter, a bartender with unyielding optimism, returns to his tiny hometown after his parents'...

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Muppets Most Wanted
Muppets Most Wanted

While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper ...

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The Tale of Despereaux
The Tale of Despereaux

Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comicall...

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How You Look to Me
How You Look to Me

An English professor helps three men come to terms with themselves in Kentucky....

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Captain Fantastic
Captain Fantastic

Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigoro...

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Crossroads
Crossroads

The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman...

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The Prophet
The Prophet

Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; toge...

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Angry Neighbors
Angry Neighbors

When his ultra-wealthy neighbor in the Hamptons builds an obnoxious mega-mansion next door, grumpy r...

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House of D
House of D

In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up ...

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Broadway: The Next Generation
Broadway: The Next Generation

A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way....

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Youth in Oregon
Youth in Oregon

A man is tasked with driving his embittered 80-year-old father-in-law cross country to be legally eu...

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All the Way
All the Way

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through t...

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111 Gramercy Park
111 Gramercy Park

Unsold series pilot about wealthy New Yorkers who live in an upscale apartment building, and the var...

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The Magic Balloon
The Magic Balloon

A young Japanese girl and a young Korean boy who meet at an amusement park steal an evil magician's ...

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Mike Nichols: An American Master
Mike Nichols: An American Master

With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director....

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The Water Is Wide
The Water Is Wide

Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's sch...

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Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

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Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

This documentary looks to forge the greatest, most definitive, documentary on everything He-Man and ...

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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and ...

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Capitol Law
Capitol Law

Sharp legal associates at a Washington D.C. law firm struggle to get along with their ruthless, ethi...

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Inside High Noon
Inside High Noon

Documentary exploring the making of the film, High Noon....

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The Prince of Homburg
The Prince of Homburg

During an invasion by the Swedish army, the Prince of Homburg, a 17th century Prussian nobleman, dis...

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Return to Rajapur
Return to Rajapur

A doomed love affair blooms against the beautiful and exotic backdrop of the deserts of India in thi...

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The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Trial of the Chicago 7

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followe...

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It Takes a Lunatic
It Takes a Lunatic

The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in th...

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Love, Antosha
Love, Antosha

From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. T...

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Liberty
Liberty

Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and t...

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The Revamping of Dracula
The Revamping of Dracula

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dracula" (1979)....

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The Seagull
The Seagull

Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by ...

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King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed

Combining commentary from renowned Egyptian scholars with meticulous computer animation, this Histor...

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The Beast in the Jungle
The Beast in the Jungle

The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection,...

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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Super...

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I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind

The story of Leonardo da Vinci: his life, his thoughts, his times, his art and inventions and the in...

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The Road to 'Dracula'
The Road to 'Dracula'

A documentary from Universal about the movie "Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi....

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The Time Being
The Time Being

A struggling young artist accepts a series of bizarre commissions from an eccentric, dying millionai...

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Lincoln
Lincoln

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ...

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Night of 100 Stars
Night of 100 Stars

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...

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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...

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Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding
Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding

Go behind the scenes with the cast of Kidding and meet the family behind the magic, The Pickles. Sta...

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Moïse
Moïse

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Moses
Moses

Pharaoh Ramses II decrees the death of all Hebrew children, but Moses, placed in a basket on the Nil...

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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film compa...

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