Cast & creator
Frank Langella
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, American Dad!, The Mike Douglas Show
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).
Also known as: Frank A. Langella Jr., فرانک لانگلا
95
film credits
28
television credits
122
1944–2025 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (123)
Showing 123 of 123 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Al Baker
1999
American Dad!
Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)
2005
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Minister Jaro
1993
Jason and the Argonauts
Aertes
2000
Great Performances
Konstantin Treplev
1971Great Performances
John Buchanan
1971Great Performances
The Prince of Homburg
1971
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
1956Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
The Americans
Gabriel
2013
Dinah!
Self
1974Film '72
Self
1971
Lolita
Clare Quilty
1997
Kidding
Sebastian Piccirillo
2018
Marcians
Self - Interviewee
2017
NET Playhouse
Benito Cereno
1966
Superman Returns
Perry White
2006
The Ninth Gate
Boris Balkan
1999
Kitchen Confidential
Pino
2005
Captain Fantastic
Jack Bertrang
2016
Noah
Og (voice)
2014
Unscripted
Goddard
2005
Small Soldiers
Archer (voice)
1998
Sweet November
Edgar Price
2001
Masters of the Universe
Skeletor
1987
Unknown
Rodney Cole
2011
The Tale of Despereaux
Mayor (voice)
2008
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Lewis Zabel
2010
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Judge Julius Hoffman
2020
Cutthroat Island
Dawg
1995
All Good Things
Sanford Marks
2010
Frost/Nixon
Richard Nixon
2008
10.5: Apocalypse
Dr. Earl Hill
2006
Muppets Most Wanted
Beefeater Vicar
2014
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Santangel
1992
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dr. Henry Piedmont
1951
Draft Day
Anthony Molina
2014
Body of Evidence
Jeffrey Roston
1993
The Box
Arlington Steward
2009
The Swiss Family Robinson
1975
Grace of Monaco
Father Francis Tucker
2014
Good Night, and Good Luck.
William Paley
2005
Moses
Mermefta
1996
All the Way
Sen. Richard Russell
2016
Dave
Bob Alexander
1993
Junior
Noah Banes
1994
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
Thanks
2025
House of D
Reverend Duncan
2004
Robot & Frank
Frank
2012
Now You See It...
Max
2005
And God Created Woman
James Tiernan
1988
Eddie
Wild Bill Burgess
1996
5 to 7
Sam Bloom
2014The Beast
2001
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
Pasha (voice)
2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Skeletor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
Sphinx
Akmed Khazzan
1981
The Twelve Chairs
Ostap Bender
1970
Dracula
Count Dracula
1979
Love, Antosha
Self
2019
Brainscan
Detective Hayden
1994
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Perry White (archive footage)
2010
Angry Neighbors
Harry March
2022
The Mark of Zorro
Don Diego / Zorro
1974
Broadway: The Next Generation
Self
I'm Losing You
Perry Needham Krohn
1998
The Deadly Trap
Philippe
1971
Back in the Day
Lieutenant Hudson
2005
Alegría
Fleur
1999
Bad Company
Vic Grimes
1995
Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Self - Actor
2017
The Men's Club
Harold Canterbury
1986
Stardom
Blaine De Castillon
2000
Diary of a Mad Housewife
George Prager
1970
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Chief Justice Warren Burger
2013
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Self
2016
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
2019
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
2021
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2003
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Narrator
1994
The Wrath of God
Thomas De La Plata
1972
True Identity
Leland Carver
1991
Doomsday Gun
Dr. Gerald Bull
1994
The Driftless Area
Tim Geer
2015
Youth in Oregon
Raymond
2017
Starting Out in the Evening
Leonard Schiller
2007
111 Gramercy Park
William
2003
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
John Buchanan
1976
Parts Per Billion
Andy
2014
Those Lips, Those Eyes
Harry Crystal
1980
The Revamping of Dracula
Self
2004
Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
Sherlock Holmes
1981
Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts
Narrator
1996
The Time Being
Warner Dax
2012
Innocents
Robert Denright
2000
The Caller
Jimmy Stevens
2008
Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding
Self
2018
The Water Is Wide
Superintendent
2006
Return to Rajapur
Ned Bears
2006
The Greatest Pharaohs
Narrator
1997
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
John Adams
1976
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Self
1990
The Road to 'Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
1999
Liberty
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
1986
Inside High Noon
Narrator (voice)
2003
The Prince of Homburg
The Prince of Homburg
1977I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
Leonardo da Vinci
1983Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth (voice)
1992
Cry Baby Lane
Mr. Bennett
2000
How You Look to Me
Professor Driskoll
2005
Crossroads
Father Tew
2006
King Tutankhamun - The Mystery Unsealed
2006
Capitol Law
Managing Partner
2006The Beast in the Jungle
The Seagull
Konstantin Treplev
1975The Magic Balloon
1990Objects and Memory
Narrator
2008
Genius on Hold
Self - Narrator (voice)
2013