Frank A. Langella Jr. (født 1. januar 1938) er en amerikansk skuespiller, der er kendt for sine roller både i film, tv og på teatret. Langella har en anderledes karriere end mange traditionelle filmstjerne, idet han altid har haft fokus på teaterskuespil igennem, og han har jævnligt optrådt på Broadway. Han har modtaget adskillige priser herunder fire Tony Awards, én Drama Desk Award og en Screen Actors Guild Award samt nomineringer til Academy Award, en BAFTA Award, en Emmy Award og to Golden Globe Awards.
Han har vundet to Tony Awards; to i kategorienBest Leading Actor in a Play for rollen som Richard Nixon i Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon og som André i Florian Zellers The Father, og to i kategorien Best Featured Actor in a Play for sine roller i Edward Albees Seascape og Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. Hans andre Tony-nominerede roller har været i Dracula i 1978, Match i 2004 og Man and Boy i 2012.
Han gentog sin rolle som Nixon i filmproduktionen af Frost/Nixon instrueret af Ron Howard, hvor han blev nomineret til en Academy Award forBest Actor. Langellas andre notable filmroller inkluderer Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs (1970), Dracula (1979), Dave (1993), The Ninth Gate (1999), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Robot & Frank (2012), Noah (2014), Captain Fantastic (2016), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).
Han har også spillet højesteretsdommer Warren Burger i HBO-filmen Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) og senator Richard Russell Jr. i All the Way (2016). Langella har spillede Gabriel, en KGB-agent i FX-serien The Americans (2013–2017) og Sebastian Piccirillo i Showtime-serien Kidding (2018–2020).
Filmografi
År Titel Rolle Noter1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife George Prager The Twelve Chairs Ostap Bender 1971 The Deadly Trap Philippe 1972 The Wrath of God De La Plata 1974 The Mark of Zorro Don Diego Vega 1979 Dracula Grev Dracula 1980 Those Lips, Those Eyes Harry Crystal 1981 Sphinx Akmed Khazzan 1986 The Men's Club Harold Canterbury 1987 Masters of the Universe Skeletor 1988 And God Created Woman James Tiernan 1991 True Identity Leland Carver 1992 1492: Conquest of Paradise Santangel1993 Body of Evidence Jeffrey Roston Dave White House Chief of Staff Bob Alexander1994 Brainscan Detective Hayden Junior Noah Banes1995 Bad Company Vic Grimes Cutthroat Island Dawg Brown 1996 Eddie Wild Bill Burgess 1997 Lolita Clare Quilty1998 Small Soldiers Archer Stemme I'm Losing You Perry Needham Krohn Alegría Giulietta's father/Fleur 1999 The Ninth Gate Boris Balkan 2000 Stardom Blaine De Castillon 2001 Sweet November Edgar Price2004 House of D Reverend Duncan The Novice Father Tew2005 Back in the Day Lt. Bill Hudson How You Look to Me Professor Driskoll Good Night, and Good Luck William S. Paley 2006 Superman Returns Perry White 2007 Starting Out in the Evening Leonard Schiller 2008 The Caller Jimmy Stevens Frost/Nixon Richard Nixon The Tale of Despereaux The Mayor Stemme 2009 The Box Arlington Steward 2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Louis Zabel All Good Things Sanford Marks 2011 Unknown Rodney Cole2012 Robot & Frank Frank The Time Being Warner Dax 2013 Parts per Billion Andy2014 Muppets Most Wanted Beefeater Vicar Cameo Noah Og Stemme Draft Day Anthony Molina 5 to 7 Sam Grace of Monaco Father Francis Tucker Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet Pasha Stemme 2015 The Driftless Area Tim Geer 2016 Captain Fantastic Jack Bertrang Youth in Oregon Raymond Engersol2020 The Trial of the Chicago 7 Julius Hoffman2022 Angry Neighbors Harry March
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