Frank Langella has long been considered among America’s greatest actors. He was nominated for the Oscar, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as the disgraced former President of the United States in Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. Other acclaimed performances include those in Stephen Frears’ Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight for HBO Films, Jake Schreier’s Robot and Frank, Andrew Wagner’s Starting Out in the Evening (for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination), Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, as “Perry White” in Superman Returns, Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate, Ivan Reitman’s Dave and Draft Day, Adrian Lyne’s Lolita, as “William Paley” in George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck, and as the title role in John Badham’s Dracula. (Continue Reading)
Frank Langella: “There are, for some reason, more parts available to me in these years than I ever thought would be”
Langella talks about how he feels about still getting great roles at his age and how he managed to act against the “robot.”