Frank Langella movies

He has won three Tony Awards - two for Best Featured (Supporting) Actor in a Play (Edward Albees Seascape (1975), Ivan Turgenevs Fortunes Fool (2002)) and one for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgans Frost/Nixon (2007). Langella was nominated for two other Best Leading Actor in a Play Tonys; first in 1978 for the Edward Gorey-designed revival of Bram Stokers Dracula and again in 2004 for Stephen Belbers Match. BiographyEarly lifeLangella, an Italian American,1 was born in Bayonne, New Jersey to Frank Langella, Sr.

and graduated from Syracuse University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. He remains a brother of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.
A versatile and overwhelmingly charismatic actor -- and, in his youth, a strikingly handsome one -- Langella was best known early in his career for his success in the title role of the Broadway production of Dracula. In a recent interview, Langella commented that people (in fact, mostly men) always complimented him on the sexual energy of his stage performance as the Count, telling him, "Boy, did my wife make love to me that night!" after seeing him onstage. Despite his initial misgivings about continuing to play the role, he was persuaded to star opposite Laurence Olivier in the subsequent film version directed by John Badham. Langella reports that on his last day of shooting he hung the cloak on a costume rack firmly knowing he could never pick it up again for fear of being typecast.He went on to play Sherlock Holmes in an HBO adaptation (1981) of William Gillettes famous stage play. He repeated the role on Broadway in 1987 in Charles Marowitzs play Sherlocks Last Case.For years afterward, Langella largely avoided acting film in order to seriously pursue theatre.

Frank Langella Movies

All movies starring Frank Langella.

• 10.5: Apocalypse
• 1492: Conquest of Paradise
• Cutthroat Island
• Dave
• Frost/Nixon
• House of D
• Junior
• Lolita
• Superman Returns
• The Ninth Gate