Frank Langella

American actor

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Acting · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

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…

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Angry Neighbors — Harry March2022
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self2021
The Trial of the Chicago 7 — Judge Julius Hoffman2020
It Takes a Lunatic — Self2019
Love, Antosha — Self2019
Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding — Self2018
Kidding — Sebastian Piccirillo2018
Youth in Oregon — Raymond Engersol2017

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Frank Alexander Langella Jr. (/lænˈdʒɛlə/; born January 1, 1938) is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades, including four Tony Awards and an Actor Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globes.

Langella made his Broadway debut in the 1966 play Yerma. He went on to win four Tony Awards, his first two for Best Featured Actor in a Play playing an intellectual lizard in Edward Albee's Seascape (1975), and a wealthy and cruel landowner in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002) and Best Lead Actor in a Play for his roles as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon (2007), an elderly man suffering from Alzheimers in Florian Zeller's The Father (2016). He was also Tony-nominated for Dracula (1978), Match (2004), and Man and Boy (2012).