Robert Langdon
Robert Langdon is a fictional character created by author Dan Brown for his Robert Langdon book series: Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017). 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).
| Professor Robert Langdon | |
|---|---|
Prof. Robert Langdon portrayed by Tom Hanks in Angels & Demons | |
| First appearance | Angels & Demons (2000) |
| Last appearance | Origin (2017) |
| Created by | Dan Brown |
| Portrayed by | |
| Voiced by | Robert Clotworthy |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Title | Professor |
| Occupation | Professor of Religious Iconology and Symbology at Harvard University |
| Family | Unnamed father (deceased) |
| Relatives | Howard Langdon (great-grandfather) |
Tom Hanks portrays Langdon in the Robert Langdon film series, starting with the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, reprising the role in the 2009 film adaptation of Angels & Demons, and again in the 2016 film adaptation of Inferno, while Ashley Zukerman plays a younger version of the character in the TV series, The Lost Symbol.