
F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award, four Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He became famous for portraying Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Abraham debuted on Broadway in the 1968 play The Man in the Glass Booth. He received the Obie Award for Outstanding Performance for his roles in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1984) and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2011). He returned to Broadway in the revival of Terrence McNally's comedy It's Only a Play (2014), receiving a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play nomination. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men (1976), Scarface (1983), The Name of the Rose (1986), Last Action Hero (1993), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Dillinger and Capone (1995), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Finding Forrester (2000), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). He was a regular cast member on the Showtime drama series Homeland (2012–2018), which earned him two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He also acted in Louie (2011–2014), Mythic Quest (2020–2021), Moon Knight (2022) and The White Lotus (2022), with the latter earning him nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article F. Murray Abraham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Milarepa as Oyun
- 2025 · The Phoenician Scheme as Prophet
- 2024 · Mother, Couch as Marcus / Marco
- 2023 · Double Soul as Mentor
- 2023 · White House Plumbers as Judge John Sirica
- 2022 · Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities as Dr. Carl Winters
- 2022 · The Magic Flute as Dr. Longbow
- 2022 · The Siege of Vienna as
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2022 · Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice)
- 2021 · The White Lotus as Bert Di Grasso
- 2021 · Things Heard & Seen as Floyd DeBeers
- 2020 · Mythic Quest as C.W. Longbottom
- 2019 · Lady and the Tramp as Tony
- 2019 · Okavango: River of Dreams as vypravěč
- 2019 · Chimerica as Frank Sams
- 2018 · Super Cats as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Every Act of Life as Self
- 2014 · A Little Game as Norman Wallach
- 2014 · Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as Self
- 2014 · The Mystery of Dante as Dante Alter Ego
- 2013 · The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die as Braque
- 2009 · Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
- 2008 · Carnera: The Walking Mountain as Leon See
- 2008 · Shark Swarm as Professor Bill Girdler
- 2007 · Blood Monkey as Professor Hamilton
- 2006 · The Stone Merchant as Shahid
- 2006 · Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers as Jeffrey
- 2006 · 40 Years of Star Trek as Self
- 2003 · My Father as Paul Minsky
- 2003 · Try to Remember: The Fantasticks as Self
- 2003 · Five Moons Plaza as Entita
- 2002 · Ticker as Airport Guru
- 2002 · The Making of 'Amadeus' as Self - Salieri
- 2001 · Knights of the Quest as Delfinello da Coverzano
- 2000 · The Darkling as Bruno Rubin
- 2000 · The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
- 1999 · Excellent Cadavers as Tommaso Buscetta
- 1999 · The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy as Professor Henry Covington
- 1998 · Waiting for Godot in San Quentin as Himself
- 1997 · Color of Justice as Jim Sullivan
- 1997 · Eruption as President Mendoza
- 1996 · Children of the Revolution as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
- 1996 · Baby Face Nelson as Al Capone
- 1993 · Journey to the Center of the Earth as Professor Harlech
- 1991 · Eye of the Widow as Kharoun
- 1991 · By the Sword as Suba
- 1990 · Drums of Fire as Osrain
- 1990 · A Season of Giants as Papa Giulio II
- 1989 · Beyond the Stars as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
- 1988 · The Third Solution as Father Carafa
- 1986 · The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self
- 1978 · The Big Fix as Eppis
- 1978 · A.E.S. Hudson Street as
- 1976 · The Ritz as Chris
- Future · Bookends as Saul Cohen
- 2019 · Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail as Ayatollah (archive footage)
- 2019 · How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World as Grimmel (voice)
- 2018 · The Letter as Narrator
- 2018 · Robin Hood as Cardinal
- 2018 · Isle of Dogs as Jupiter (voice)
- 2017 · The Orville as Chairman
- 2017 · Road to 9/11 as Himself - Narrator
- 2017 · The Good Fight as Burl Preston
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · 411 as Information (voice)
- 2014 · The Grand Budapest Hotel as Mr. Moustafa
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · Goltzius & the Pelican Company as The Margrave
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Inside Llewyn Davis as Bud Grossman
- 2013 · Love, Marilyn as Self
- 2013 · Dead Man Down as Gregor
- 2012 · Beauty and the Beast as Cyril
- 2012 · The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 as Marco D'Aviano
- 2012 · Elementary as Daniel Gottlieb
- 2012 · The Unseen World as John Henry Newman
- 2012 · Beauty and the Beast as Cyril
- 2011 · Homeland as Dar Adal
- 2011 · Is That Skunk? as Narrator
- 2010 · Blue Bloods as Leon Goodwin
- 2010 · Nature Amazing Places Hawaii as Narrates Program One
- 2010 · Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air as
- 2010 · In the Valley of the Wolves as Narrator
- 2009 · Barbarossa as Siniscalco Barozzi
- 2009 · The Good Wife as Burl Preston
- 2009 · Perestroika as Professor Gross
- 2009 · The Dragon Chronicles as Narrator
- 2008 · A House Divided as Grandfather Wahid
- 2008 · Ballerina as Goran
- 2007 · The Beauty of Ugly as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America as Narrator
- 2007 · Come le formiche as Ruggero
- 2007 · The Final Inquiry as Nathan
- 2007 · L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII as Nathan
- 2006 · Quiet Flows The Don as Pantaley
- 2006 · Quiet Flows the Don as Pantaley
- 2004 · The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Viceroy of Peru
- 2004 · Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire as
- 2003 · Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites as Readings (Voice)
- 2002 · Joshua as Father Tardone
- 2001 · Thir13en Ghosts as Cyrus Kriticos
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Theodore Nichols
- 2001 · The Hire as Airport Guru
- 2000 · Un dono semplice as 主演
- 2000 · Finding Forrester as Robert Crawford
- 2000 · Curb Your Enthusiasm as Ayatollah
- 1999 · Muppets from Space as Noah
- 1999 · Noah's Ark as Lot
- 1999 · Esther as Mordechai
- 1998 · Star Trek: Insurrection as Ad'har Ru'afo
- 1997 · Vacation in Hell as Belisario
- 1997 · Einstein Revealed as Narrator
- 1997 · Mimic as Dr. Gates
- 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self
- 1996 · Dead Man's Walk as Caleb Cobb
- 1995 · Mighty Aphrodite as Chorleiter
- 1995 · Dillinger and Capone as Al Capone
- 1994 · Nostradamus as Scalinger
- 1994 · Fresh as Chess Hustler
- 1994 · Surviving the Game as Wolfe Sr.
- 1994 · L'Affaire as Lucien Haslans
- 1994 · Jamila as Older Seit
- 1993 · Sweet Killing as Zargo
- 1993 · Last Action Hero as John Practice
- 1993 · National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as Harold Leacher
- 1992 · Through an Open Window as Narrator
- 1992 · The First Circle as Stalin
- 1991 · Mobsters as Arnold Rothstein
- 1991 · Money as Will Scarlet
- 1990 · The Bonfire of the Vanities as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
- 1990 · The Little Match Girl as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · Cadence as Capt. Ramon Garcia
- 1990 · Largo Desolato as Professor Leopold Nettles
- 1989 · I promessi sposi as l'Innominato
- 1989 · The Making of Slipstream as
- 1989 · An Innocent Man as Virgil Cane
- 1989 · The Favorite as Abdul Hamid
- 1989 · Slipstream as Cornelius
- 1988 · Il Trovatore as Self - Host
- 1988 · American Experience as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · The Great San Francisco Earthquake as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1987 · La rosa dei nomi as Self
- 1986 · The Name of the Rose as Bernardo Gui
- 1986 · Dream West as President Abraham Lincoln
- 1985 · Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise as Herman Melville
- 1984 · Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier as Goldstein
- 1984 · Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
- 1983 · Scarface as Omar
- 1982 · Marco Polo as Jacopo
- 1982 · Nature as Narrator (voice)
- 1978 · Madman as Marco Cohen
- 1977 · Sex and the Married Woman as Duke Skaggs
- 1977 · The Andros Targets as Bobby Carr
- 1976 · All the President's Men as Arresting Officer #1
- 1975 · The Sunshine Boys as Mechanic
- 1975 · The Prisoner of Second Avenue as Taxi Driver
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator
- 1973 · Serpico as Detective Partner (uncredited)
- 1973 · Kojak as Solly Nurse
- 1973 · Kojak as Eddie Gordon
- 1971 · They Might Be Giants as Clyde (the usher)
- 1971 · All in the Family as Clerk
- Future · Out of This World as
- Future · Dead Lawyers as