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Acting

Frank Langella

Career: Active from 1970 to 2022, busiest in 2006 with 6 main titles.

Leading roles: 48
top three billing

Average score: 54/100

Highest rated: Frost/Nixon
82/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Academy Awards · Actor in a Leading Role
2009 · Nominated · 81st Academy Awards
Frost/Nixon
Source: Wikidata

Characters

6

The characters Frank Langella played, best-known titles first.

Frank Langella as Julius Hoffman

Frank Langella as Gabriel

Frank Langella as Clare Quilty.

Frank Langella as Sebastiano

Frank Langella as Pino Lugeria

Frank Langella as George Prager

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 72 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Frank Langella Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
3.2, average 4.1
Scare
1.9, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 10
Historical Drama 6
Psychological Drama 5
Political Intrigue 4
Moral Ambiguity 4
Character Study 4
Thought-Provoking 3
Historical Setting 3
Psychological Thriller 3
Redemption 3
Family-Friendly 3
Erotic Thriller 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

97

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

3 titles · average score 65

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

77

Thanks

Angry Neighbors

37

as Harry March

The Trial of the Chicago 7

80

as Judge Julius Hoffman

2010s

21 titles · average score 61

Kidding

73

TV show · as Sebastian Piccirillo

Youth in Oregon

41

as Raymond

All the Way

78

as Sen. Richard Russell

Draft Day

61

as Anthony Molina

Grace of Monaco

27

as Father Francis Tucker

5 to 7

66

as Sam Bloom

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

51

as Chief Justice Warren Burger

Robot & Frank

74

as Frank

The Time Being

41

as Warner Dax

Unknown

59

as Rodney Cole

All Good Things

50

as Sanford Marks

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

56

as Lewis Zabel

2000s

28 titles · average score 56

The Box

46

as Arlington Steward

Frost/Nixon

82

as Richard Nixon

Starting Out in the Evening

75

as Leonard Schiller

10.5: Apocalypse

28

TV show · as Dr. Earl Hill

Superman Returns

64

as Perry White

The Water Is Wide

70

as Superintendent

Now You See It...

58

as Max

Good Night, and Good Luck.

80

as William Paley

Unscripted

56

TV show · as Goddard

American Dad!

58

TV show · as Commodore Francis Stoat (voice)

House of D

44

as Reverend Duncan

TV show

1990s

23 titles · average score 54

The Ninth Gate

54

as Boris Balkan

Alegría

65

as Fleur

Lolita

62

as Clare Quilty

Eddie

33

as Wild Bill Burgess

Moses

68

TV show · as Mermefta

Cutthroat Island

47

as Dawg

Bad Company

38

as Vic Grimes

Brainscan

36

as Detective Hayden

Junior

46

as Noah Banes

Doomsday Gun

58

as Dr. Gerald Bull

Dave

72

as Bob Alexander

True Identity

43

as Leland Carver

1980s

8 titles · average score 45

And God Created Woman

47

as James Tiernan

Masters of the Universe

39

as Skeletor

Liberty

as Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

The Men's Club

35

as Harold Canterbury

I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind

as Leonardo da Vinci

Sphinx

48

as Akmed Khazzan

Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner

as Sherlock Holmes

Those Lips, Those Eyes

54

as Harry Crystal

1970s

12 titles · average score 64

Dracula

65

as Count Dracula

The Prince of Homburg

as The Prince of Homburg

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

as John Buchanan

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage

as John Adams

The Seagull

as Konstantin Treplev

The Swiss Family Robinson

64

TV show

The Mark of Zorro

61

as Don Diego / Zorro

The Wrath of God

54

as Thomas De La Plata

The Deadly Trap

50

as Philippe

Great Performances

70

TV show · as John Buchanan / The Prince of Homburg

The Twelve Chairs

75

as Ostap Bender

Diary of a Mad Housewife

76

as George Prager

1960s

1 title

NET Playhouse

TV show · as Benito Cereno

1950s

1 title · average score 84

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Dr. Henry Piedmont