Mr. Langella's distinctive New York stage career began with the leading role in the 1963 Off-Broadway revival of The Immoralist . He earned three OBIE Awards for The Old Glory: Benito Cereno , The White Devil , and Good Day , and the Drama Desk Award for his portrayal of Will Shakespeare in William Gibson's A Cry of Players . He made his Broadway debut as a lizard in Edward Albee's Seascape . This role earned him the Tony Award, another Drama Desk Award, and the Los Angeles Critics' Circle Award.

His motion picture career began with Diary of a Mad Housewife , for which he was awarded the National Society of Film Critics' Award. He has had leading or supporting roles in over thirty films, and has produced and directed a number of plays for the Broadway and Off-broadway stage. Three of his PBS "Theatre in America" specials are avaiable on VHS tape (see bottom of Stage Credits page). He also wrote, directed and had the title role in the 1997 Broadway production of Cyrano . In addition, he has performed voice overs in numerous productions (see Voice Credits page) and has earned numerous awards.

The young Frank Langella, age 15 or so, yearbook photo
copyright 1980 Williamstown Theatre Festival, all rights reserved

1980 at WTF

Frank Langella was born January 1st, 1940 in Bayonne, New Jersey. The young Frank grew up in Bayonne and South Orange, New Jersey. As a teenager he would ride the bus into Times Square and search the record stores for John Gielgud records to help him alter his native New Jersey accent.

Frank landed his first dramatic role at age 11, playing an 85 year old man in an Abraham Lincoln Pageant at School No. 3 in Bayonne. He graduated from Syracuse University Drama department in 1959 .
He studied with Elia Kazan at the Lincoln Reperatory Theatre and performed extensively in local theatres in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Berkshires (Massachusetts).

"I like audiences believing I am the character I am. And if they hear too much about how I play it or too much about my personal life, I'm not that character -- I'm the guy they saw on the Letterman show telling that anecdote. Some actors I can literally no longer watch, because they've told me too much about themselves."
-- New York Newsday, January 16, 1994

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