Robert Fox (producer) production of "The Boy from Oz" starring Hugh Jackman which also recently finished a record-breaking tour of arenas in Australia; and "The Pillowman" by Martin McDonagh starring Billy Crudup and Jeff Goldblum. Fox is currently co-producing two new plays: on Broadway, "The Vertical Hour" by David Hare starring Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy, and in the West End, "Frost/Nixon" by Peter Morgan with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen at the Gielgud Theatre. Fox executive-produced the film of "Closer" (Columbia TriStar) directed by Mike Nichols and starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman. Before that he produced "The
The Twelve Chairs (1970 film) DeLuise, in fact, considerably outshines the two leads." Langella won the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actor. Brooks was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium. The Twelve Chairs (1970 film) The Twelve Chairs is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody, and Dom DeLuise. The screenplay was written by Brooks. The film was one of at least 18 film adaptations of the Russian 1928 novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilf and Petrov. In the Soviet Union in 1927, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov,