
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 came to prominence for his acclaimed leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Abraham made his Broadway debut in the 1968 play 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 starred in Mythic Quest (2020–2021), Moon Knight (2022), and The White Lotus (2022) with the latter earning him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Milarepa as Oyun
- 2025 · The Phoenician Scheme as
- 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
- 2019 · Okavango: River of Dreams as vypravěč
- 2014 · Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as Self
- 2014 · Goltzius & the Pelican Company as The Margrave
- 2012 · The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 as Marco D'Aviano
- 2012 · Beauty and the Beast as Cyril
- 2009 · Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
- 2008 · Carnera: The Walking Mountain as Leon See
- 2007 · Blood Monkey as Professor Hamilton
- 2007 · The Final Inquiry as Nathan
- 2006 · Quiet Flows The Don as Pantaley
- 2006 · Quiet Flows the Don as Pantaley
- 2004 · Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire as
- 2003 · My Father as Paul Minsky
- 2003 · Five Moons Plaza as Entita
- 2002 · The Making of 'Amadeus' as Self - Salieri
- 2002 · Joshua as Father Tardone
- 2001 · Knights of the Quest as Delfinello da Coverzano
- 2000 · The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
- 1999 · The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy as Professor Henry Covington
- 1997 · Einstein Revealed as Narrator
- 1997 · Eruption as President Mendoza
- 1996 · Children of the Revolution as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
- 1996 · Baby Face Nelson as Al Capone
- 1995 · Mighty Aphrodite as Chorleiter
- 1994 · Fresh as Chess Hustler
- 1994 · Surviving the Game as Wolfe Sr.
- 1993 · Sweet Killing as Zargo
- 1991 · Eye of the Widow as Kharoun
- 1991 · By the Sword as Suba
- 1991 · Money as Will Scarlet
- 1990 · A Season of Giants as Papa Giulio II
- 1990 · Largo Desolato as Professor Leopold Nettles
- 1989 · The Making of Slipstream as
- 1989 · The Favorite as Abdul Hamid
- 1988 · The Third Solution as Father Carafa
- 1977 · Sex and the Married Woman as Duke Skaggs
- Future · Bookends as Saul Cohen
- 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
- 2020 · Okavango: River of Dreams - Director's Cut as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Lady and the Tramp as Tony
- 2019 · Chimerica as Frank Sams
- 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 · Super Cats as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Every Act of Life as Self
- 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 · A Little Game as Norman Wallach
- 2014 · The Grand Budapest Hotel as Mr. Moustafa
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · The Mystery of Dante as Dante Alter Ego
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Inside Llewyn Davis as Bud Grossman
- 2013 · The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die as Braque
- 2013 · Love, Marilyn as Self
- 2013 · Dead Man Down as Gregor
- 2012 · Beauty and the Beast as Cyril
- 2012 · Elementary as Daniel Gottlieb
- 2012 · The Unseen World as John Henry Newman
- 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 · Shark Swarm as Professor Bill Girdler
- 2008 · Ballerina as Goran
- 2008 · A House Divided as Grandfather Wahid
- 2007 · The Beauty of Ugly as Narrator
- 2007 · Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America as Narrator
- 2007 · Come le formiche as Ruggero
- 2007 · L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII as Nathan
- 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
- 2004 · The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Viceroy of Peru
- 2003 · Try to Remember: The Fantasticks as Self
- 2003 · Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites as Readings (Voice)
- 2002 · Ticker as Airport Guru
- 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
- 2000 · The Darkling as Bruno Rubin
- 1999 · Excellent Cadavers as Tommaso Buscetta
- 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
- 1998 · Waiting for Godot in San Quentin as Himself
- 1997 · Vacation in Hell as Belisario
- 1997 · Color of Justice as Jim Sullivan
- 1997 · Mimic as Dr. Gates
- 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self
- 1996 · Dead Man's Walk as Caleb Cobb
- 1995 · Dillinger and Capone as Al Capone
- 1994 · Nostradamus as Scalinger
- 1994 · L'Affaire as Lucien Haslans
- 1994 · Jamila as Older Seit
- 1993 · Journey to the Center of the Earth as Professor Harlech
- 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
- 1990 · The Bonfire of the Vanities as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
- 1990 · Drums of Fire as Osrain
- 1990 · The Little Match Girl as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · Cadence as Capt. Ramon Garcia
- 1989 · I promessi sposi as l'Innominato
- 1989 · An Innocent Man as Virgil Cane
- 1989 · Slipstream as Cornelius
- 1989 · Beyond the Stars as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
- 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 Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' 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 · The Big Fix as Eppis
- 1978 · A.E.S. Hudson Street as
- 1978 · Madman as Marco Cohen
- 1977 · The Andros Targets as Bobby Carr
- 1976 · The Ritz as Chris
- 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 · Dead Lawyers as