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Robert Langdon

Robert Langdon
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Real name Dauphin

Professor Robert Langdon is a fictional character created by author Dan Brown for his novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009) and Inferno (2013). He is a Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology (a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of Semiotics).

Tom Hanks portrayed Robert Langdon in the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, reprised the role in the 2009 film adaptation of Angels & Demons, and will play the role again in the 2016 film adaptation of Inferno. Robert Langdon usually wears a wrist watch which has a picture of the Disney character Mickey Mouse.

Biography

Jeunesse
Robert Langdon est né à Exeter, dans le New Hampshire, aux États-Unis, en 1964. Il reçoit une éducation catholique. À l'âge de 7 ans, il tombe dans un puits et reste dedans toute la nuit. Il est récupéré au matin dans un état proche de la catatonie. À la suite de cette mésaventure, il devient claustrophobe.
Son père est mort lorsqu'il était âgé de 12 ans, et sa nouvelle figure paternelle est devenu Peter Solomon, ministre à la Smithsonian Institution.

Durant ses études, Robert était plongeur à la Phillips Exeter Academy à l'école préparatoire, et jouait au water polo à l'université de Princeton. Il comptait, à l'époque, parmi les meilleurs joueurs du pays.


Professeur à Harvard
Robert Langdon est professeur de symbologie et d'iconologie religieuse dans la prestigieuse Université Harvard. C'est une discipline fictive, qui n'est pas méthodologiquement lié à la sémiotique, étude des signes et de leur signification. Le professeur est l'auteur de plusieurs livres parlant de symboles et de diverses thèses sur l'existence d'entités méconnues de tous. Il est notamment l'auteur d'ouvrages sur la symbologie des sectes secrètes, les Illuminati, la langue oubliée des idéogrammes, l'iconologie religieuse, les symboles du Féminin sacré (publié à la suite de l'aventure du Da Vinci Code, et qui a déclenché une polémique), ou encore les symboles chrétiens dans le monde musulman.

Après ses aventures à Rome et à Paris, il a reçu quantité d’invitations à déchiffrer les codes les plus hermétiques de l’Histoire : le disque de Phaistos, le Chiffre de Dorabella, le mystérieux manuscrit de Voynich etc.

Langdon vit dans une maison victorienne spacieuse et haute de plafond, pour l'achat de laquelle il a déboursé une petite fortune, bien que l'université lui ait proposé un logement de fonction. Il remplit sa demeure d'une collection d'objets d'art dignes d'un musée.

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Played by the actor

Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
(3 films)
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Filmography of Robert Langdon (3 films)

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Inferno
Inferno (2016)
, 2h1
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Poésie, Films about religion, Adaptation d'un poème
Actors Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Ben Foster, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen
Rating61% 3.097883.097883.097883.097883.09788
Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital room in Florence, Italy, with no memory of what has occurred for the last few days. He then teams up with the doctor Sienna Brooks, to help him recover.
Angels & Demons, 2h18
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Rating67% 3.3500953.3500953.3500953.3500953.350095
Under the watchful eyes of Father Silvano Bentivoglio (Carmen Argenziano) and Dr. Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) initiates the Large Hadron Collider and creates three vials of antimatter particles larger than any that have ever been produced before. Almost immediately, Father Silvano is killed and one of the vials of antimatter goes missing. At the same time, the Roman Catholic Church is mourning the sudden death of Pope Pius XVI in Rome and prepares for the papal conclave to elect the next Pope. The Camerlengo Patrick McKenna (Ewan McGregor) assumes temporary control of the Vatican. The Illuminati kidnap four of the 'preferiti' (the favourite cardinals to be elected pope) before the conclave enters seclusion and threaten to kill one candidate every hour and destroy all of Vatican City at midnight, using the missing vial of antimatter as a bomb. The Vatican summons symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) from Harvard University and Vittoria from CERN to help them save the four preferiti and locate the vial.
The Da Vinci Code, 2h29
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Peinture, Films about religion
Actors Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Paul Bettany
Rating66% 3.30123.30123.30123.30123.3012
A man revealed to be Jacques Saunière is being pursued by a mysterious hooded character known as Silas (Paul Bettany) through the Grand Gallery in the Louvre in Paris. Silas demands the location of the Priory's clef de voûte or "keystone." Under threat of death, Saunière finally confesses the keystone is kept in the sacristy of Church of Saint-Sulpice, "beneath the Rose." Silas thanks him, and then shoots him in the stomach. Meanwhile, American symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), who is in Paris as a guest lecturer on symbols and the sacred feminine, is contacted by the French police, and summoned to the Louvre to view the crime scene. He discovers the dying Saunière has created an intricate display using black light ink and his own body and blood. Captain Bezu Fache (Jean Reno) asks him for his interpretation of the puzzling scene.