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 Drácula (1958) to Dracula padre e hijo (1976), Langella played him in Drácula (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 y el collar de la muerte (1962), Sherlock Holmes y la prima donna (1991) and Incidente en las Cataratas Victoria (1992), Langella played him in Standing Room Only: Sherlock Holmes (1981), Roxburgh played him in El perro de los Baskerville (2002) and Mann played him in Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow Watchers (2011).