The play, written by Peter Morgan, directed by Michael Grandage and co-starring Frank Langella, was a critical and commercial success but Sheen initially accepted the role as a favour to his friends and " never thought it was going anywhere ".

The play was adapted into a motion picture, starring Michael Sheen as David Frost, Frank Langella as Richard Nixon, directed by Ron Howard, and released in 2008.

The first Broadway revival was in 1984 at Circle in the Square Theater, directed by George C. Scott, starring Jill Clayburgh as Gilda, Raul Julia as Leo and Frank Langella as Otto.

Skeletor was the primary villain in the 1987 live-action film starring Dolph Lundgren, portrayed by Frank Langella.

Langella, an Italian American, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella Sr., a business executive who was the president of the Bayonne Barrel and Drum Company.

Langella won his first Tony Award for his performance in Edward Albee's Seascape and 1975 and was nominated for another for what may have been the performance for which he was best known for in the early part of his career: the title role of the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula.

Langella starred in the drama thriller Unknown, which was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, and was released in 2011.

Langella was married to Ruth Weil from June 14, 1977 to their divorce in 1996.

It was no wonder Langella was invited everywhere.

In 1981, it was adapted into the film Sphinx, starring Lesley-Anne Down as " Erica Baron " and Frank Langella as " Akmed Khazzan " ( partly filmed in Egypt ).

*" Elevate My Mind " was used on the soundtrack of Bad Company ( 1995 ) starring Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Barkin, and Frank Langella.

In 1986, the novel was made into a popular film, directed by Peter Medak, with the screenplay by Michaels, and starring Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing and Frank Langella.

But when it was determined that there would be a schedule conflict involving Laurie's TV series House ( which was, incidentally, executive produced by Singer ), Laurie was forced to drop out and Frank Langella stepped in to play Perry White.

Mobius was created by Shannon Hastings, Stephen Langella, and Scott Oster, all of whom were computer science researchers at The Ohio State University.

His first narrative feature, All Good Things, starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, and Frank Langella, was released in 2010.

By the early 1990s Weaver appeared in several films including Ang Lee's The Ice Storm, earning her another Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and winning a BAFTA Award, followed by Dave opposite Kevin Kline and Frank Langella.

To prepare for the role, Langella had asked his kids questions about the character and watched the series.

Langella received critical acclaim as well as the Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 2007 for his sensitive portrayal of an elderly novelist in Starting Out in the Evening.

The 2007 – 08 season saw the flagship strikers David Suazo, Esposito and Langella leave for Internazionale, Roma and Atalanta respectively, and the experienced goalkeeper Chimenti leave for Udinese.

Directed by Albee himself, the production opened on Broadway on January 26, 1975, at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, starring Deborah Kerr, Barry Nelson, Maureen Anderman and Frank Langella, who won a Tony Award for his performance as Leslie.

Shortly thereafter, a homeless con-artist, Ostap Bender ( Frank Langella ), meets the dispossessed nobleman and manipulates his way into a partnership in his search for the family riches.

Frank Langella won the NBR ( National Board of Review ) award for Best Supporting Actor.

Other Broadway credits include Moon Over Buffalo ( 1995 ) with Carol Burnett and Lynn Redgrave ( on Broadway ) and Frank Langella and Joan Collins at the Old Vic in London, the book for a musical adaptation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 2001 ), and a new adaptation of the classic Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play, Twentieth Century ( 2004 ) starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche and the revival of Lend Me A Tenor ( 2010 ), starring Tony Shalhoub and Justin Bartha.

Looking for revenge, Albert Gallo sent a gunman from Las Vegas to the Neopolitan Noodle restaurant in Manhattan, where Yacovelli, Alphonse Persico, and Langella were dining one day.

Peter Sellers ( 1962 ) and Frank Langella ( 1997 ) played the role in two subsequent movies.

Langella appeared off-Broadway ( in plays like the American poet Robert Lowell's The Old Glory ) before he made his first foray on a Broadway stage in New York in Gacia-Lorca's " Yerma " at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, on December 8, 1966.

While in Paris, she also landed her first film role ( as a Swedish au pair ) in Deadly Trap, starring Faye Dunaway and Frank Langella.

Brainscan is a 1994 horror film starring Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, Amy Hargreaves, Jamie Marsh and T. Ryder Smith.

* Dracula: At one point, Rebecca says, " Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman ... they're vampires ", to which Angel replies, " I thought Frank Langella was the only performance I believed ..." They refer to three actors who have played Dracula, Lugosi in Dracula in 1931, Langella in 1979's Dracula and Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992.

BBC Radio program compiled and presented by Philip Glassborow, including interviews with Andreas Brown of the Gotham Book Mart, actor Frank Langella ( star of Gorey's Dracula on Broadway ), Alison Lurie, Alex Hand, Jack Braginton Smith, Katherine Kellgren and featuring David Suchet as the voice of Gorey.

The 1979 film Dracula, starring Frank Langella in the title role, has Tony Haygarth playing " Milo " Renfield as an unkempt workman who in enthralled by Dracula while he is unloading the boxes as Carfax.

* Dracula ( 1979 ) – a film in the gothic romantic tradition starring Frank Langella and remake of the 1931 film with Bela Lugosi.

** Frank Langella – Dracula as Dracula

The film has been remade twice, once in 1940 ( starring Tyrone Power ) and again in 1974 ( starring Frank Langella ).

This production starred Frank Langella as Holmes, Stephen Collins as James Larrabee, Susan Clark as Madge Larrabee, Richard Woods as Dr. Watson, and 12-year-old Christian Slater in his film debut as Billy the Pageboy.

** Frank Langella – Match as Tobi

In the spring of 2000 she completed an American tour of Love Letters with the likes of George Hamilton and Stacy Keach Jr. Additionally, she appeared in a West End production of Over the Moon with Frank Langella in 2000.

: Many Italian Americans actors became well known in movies and TV, such as: Don Ameche, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anne Bancroft ( Anna Italiano ), Ernest Borgnine ( Ermes Borgnino ), Robert Alda, Alan Alda, Lou Costello, Frank Langella, Frankie Avalon ( Avallone ), Annette Funicello, James Darren ( Ercolani ), Jimmy Durante, Anthony Franciosa, Sal Mineo, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Aldo Ray ( DaRe ), Richard Conte, Bernadette Peters ( Lazzara ), Connie Stevens ( Concetta Ingoglia ), Richard Crenna, Dom DeLuise, Armand Assante, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Joe Mantegna, John Travolta, Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Rene Russo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Nicolas Cage ( Coppola ), Stanley Tucci, Marissa Tomei, John Turturro and Sylvester Stallone.

In elections held in November 2010, Robert R. Schaffer rode a write-in campaign and defeated incumbent mayor Nick Langella by a 2-1 margin.

Small Soldiers is a 1998 American action / science fiction film directed by Joe Dante, starring Gregory Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella and Tommy Lee Jones.

* Frank Langella as the voice of Archer, the leader of the Gorgonites.

At the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, he performed in Scenes From an Execution, with Frank Langella.

Appearing in only one scene within the film, he played the character of Detective Langella, a foulmouthed policeman investigating the murders of a killer clown.

Another production, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, appeared on television in 1976, starring Blythe Danner and Frank Langella.

The film co-starred Richard Benjamin and Frank Langella.

Frank Langella played the part of Ostap Bender.

* In the 1986 television movie Murrow, Paley is played by Dabney Coleman, while in the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, he is played by Frank Langella.

The agency ’ s acting clients include Academy Award winners Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Robert Duvall, Al Pacino, William Hurt, Susan Sarandon, and Christopher Walken, as well as Mickey Rourke, Frank Langella, Hailee Steinfeld, David Strathairn, Abigail Breslin, Laura Linney, Samuel L. Jackson, Megan Fox, Michael Cera, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Monaghan, Lesley Manville, Jacki Weaver, Seann William Scott, America Ferrera, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emmy Rossum, and Christina Ricci.

The film stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella.

After bedding and outsmarting a bounty hunter trying to arrest her, female pirate Morgan Adams ( Geena Davis ) hunts down her uncle and fellow pirate Dawg Brown ( Frank Langella ), who has captured her father, Black Harry ( Harris Yulin ), who has one of three pieces of a map to a huge stash of gold on a remote island called Cutthroat Island.