| Frank Langella  AKA Frank A. Langella, Jr.
Born: 1-Jan-1938
Birthplace: Bayonne, NJ
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Dracula and Dave Frank Langella's voice sounds almost European, but he was raised in New Jersey. He lost the accent as a teenager, by listening over and over again to records of John Gielgud performing Shakespeare. Before finding steady work as an actor, he was able to pay the rent by singing folk tunes in coffee shops. His first professional play was an Erie Playhouse production of The Pajama Game in 1960, and his other stage roles include Antonio Salieri in the Broadway production of Amadeus. He has won two Tonys, for Seascape with Deborah Kerr in 1975, and Fortune's Fool with Alan Bates in 2002.
Already an accomplished actor, in Langella's first film, Diary of a Mad Housewife in 1970, he played the roguish and illicit lover of Carrie Snodgress. In his second film, Mel Brooks' classic The Twelve Chairs, Langella was again a lothario, memorably telling a beautiful woman, "I am very much in lust with you." In John Badham's 1979 Dracula, Langella's portrayal avoided the overwrought campiness of Bela Lugosi. Langella had already played the Count in a Broadway production of Dracula, and some aficionados of horror consider Langella's film interpretation to be unsurpassed. He also dripped with evil as the coldhearted White House Chief of Staff in Dave with Kevin Kline. He has played Leonardo Da Vinci and Sherlock Holmes in TV movies, done song and dance in Those Lips, Those Eyes with Tom Hulce, and played Daily Planet editor Perry White in Superman Returns.
Langella generally eschews talk shows and publicity interviews, and rarely speaks publicly of his personal life.
Father: Frank Langella, Sr. (CEO of a barrel and drum company)
Wife: Ruth Weil (editor of House Beautiful, b. 1941, m. 14-Jun-1977, div. 1996, two children)
Son: (b. 1983, by Ruth)
Daughter: (b. 1985, by Ruth)
Girlfriend: Whoopi Goldberg (actress, cohabited Oct-1995 to Mar-2001)
High School: Columbia High School, Maplewood, NJ
University: BA Drama, Syracuse University (1959)
Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity
Tony 1975 for Seascape
Tony 2002 for Fortune's Fool
TELEVISION
Unscripted Goddard Fulton (2004-)
The Beast Jackson Burns (2001)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Superman Returns (28-Jun-2006)
10.5: Apocalypse (18-Mar-2006)
Good Night, and Good Luck (1-Sep-2005)
Now You See It... (14-Jan-2005)
Back in the Day (15-May-2004)
House of D (7-May-2004)
Sweet November (12-Feb-2001)
Stardom (17-May-2000)
Jason and the Argonauts (7-May-2000)
The Ninth Gate (25-Aug-1999)
Dark Summer (17-May-1999)
I'm Losing You (17-Sep-1998)
Small Soldiers (10-Jul-1998) [VOICE]
Alegrķa (1998)
Lolita (27-Sep-1997)
Eddie (31-May-1996)
Moses (7-Apr-1996)
Cutthroat Island (22-Dec-1995)
Bad Company (20-Jan-1995)
Junior (24-Nov-1994)
Doomsday Gun (23-Jul-1994)
Brainscan (22-Apr-1994)
Dave (7-May-1993)
Body of Evidence (15-Jan-1993)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (9-Oct-1992)
True Identity (23-Aug-1991)
And God Created Woman (1-Jan-1988)
Masters of the Universe (7-Aug-1987)
The Men's Club (Sep-1986)
Sphinx (11-Feb-1981)
Dracula (20-Jul-1979)
The Mark of Zorro (29-Oct-1974)
The Wrath of God (14-Jul-1972)
The Twelve Chairs (28-Oct-1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife (10-Aug-1970)
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