Frank Langella Frank Langella Frank A. Langella Jr. (; born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards, two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performances as Richard Nixon in the play "Frost/Nixon" and as André in "The Father" and two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the roles of Leslie in Edward Albee's "Seascape" and Flegont Alexandrovitch Tropatchov in Ivan Turgenev's "Fortune's Fool". Additionally, Langella has won two Obie Awards. His notable film roles include George Prager in "Diary of a Mad Housewife" (1970), Count Dracula in "Dracula"
The Twelve Chairs (1970 film) 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, an impoverished aristocrat from Imperial Russia now working as a local village bureaucrat, is summoned to the deathbed of his mother-in-law. She reveals before dying that a fortune in jewels had been hidden from the Bolsheviks