Frost/Nixon (play) Frost/Nixon (play) Frost/Nixon is a 2006 British play by screenwriter and dramatist Peter Morgan based on a series of televised interviews that former U.S. President Richard Nixon granted broadcaster David Frost in 1977 about his administration, including his role in the Watergate scandal. The play premiered at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London in August 2006, directed by Michael Grandage and starring Michael Sheen as the talk-show host and Frank Langella as the former president. "Frost/Nixon" received enthusiastic reviews in the British press. It then played at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End, again starring Langella and Sheen. On
Frank Langella Baker in "Dominance", a 2003 episode of "" and had a recurring role as Pino in the 2005 short-lived sitcom "Kitchen Confidential". On film, he played Clare Quilty in Adrian Lyne's adaptation of "Lolita" and appeared as a villainous pirate in the summer 1995 release "Cutthroat Island". His film work also includes roles in George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005) as former CBS chief executive William S. Paley and Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" (2006) as "Daily Planet" editor Perry White. Langella received critical acclaim as well as the Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 2007 for his