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Langella, Frank

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | Copyright

Langella, Frank (b. 1940), actor. The dark, youthful‐looking leading man, whose versatility has allowed him to shine in both classic and contemporary plays, has been a durable and favorite actor on the New York stage for forty years. He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, and studied theatre at Syracuse University before appearing in stock productions. Langella made his New York debut in 1963 and started to get noticed as a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Company, particularly as the young Will Shakespeare in A Cry of Players (1968). Among his many memorable performances were the personified lizard Leslie in Seascape (1975), the honorable title hero in The Prince of Homburg (1976), a young and sensuous Dracula (1977), the guilt‐ridden lawyer Quentin in After the Fall (1984), an egotistical Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock's Last Case (1987), the tormented Captain in The Father (1996), and the Russian fop Tropatchov in Fortune's Fool (2002). Langella frequently returned to regional theatre, in particular the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

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