He has two roles in common with Christopher Lee, Richard Roxburgh and Anthony D.P. Mann: (1) Lee played Count Dracula in ten films from Dracula (1958) to Dracula père et fils (1976), Langella played him in Dracula - Eine Love Story (1979), Roxburgh played him in Van Helsing (2004) and Mann played him in Canucula! (Dracula in Canada) (2008) and Terror of Dracula (2012) and (2) Lee played Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes (1962), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) and Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), Langella played him in Standing Room Only: Sherlock Holmes (1981), Roxburgh played him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) and Mann played him in Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow Watchers (2011).