
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 · Marvel Zombies as Khonshu (voice)
- 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 · 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 · 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 · Robin Hood as Cardinal
- 2018 · Isle of Dogs as Jupiter (voice)
- 2017 · The Orville as Chairman
- 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 · Goltzius & the Pelican Company as The Margrave
- 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 · Beauty and the Beast as Cyril
- 2011 · Homeland as Dar Adal
- 2010 · Blue Bloods as Leon Goodwin
- 2010 · Nature Amazing Places Hawaii as Narrates Program One
- 2010 · Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air as
- 2009 · Barbarossa as Siniscalco Barozzi
- 2009 · The Good Wife as Burl Preston
- 2009 · Perestroika as Professor Gross
- 2008 · Carnera: The Walking Mountain as Leon See
- 2008 · Shark Swarm as Professor Bill Girdler
- 2008 · A House Divided as Grandfather Wahid
- 2008 · Ballerina as Goran
- 2007 · The Beauty of Ugly as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Blood Monkey as Professor Hamilton
- 2007 · The Final Inquiry as Nathan
- 2007 · L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII as Nathan
- 2006 · Quiet Flows The Don as Pantaley
- 2006 · The Stone Merchant as Shahid
- 2006 · 40 Years of Star Trek as Self
- 2004 · The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Viceroy of Peru
- 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
- 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 · 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
- 1997 · Einstein Revealed as Narrator
- 1997 · Color of Justice as Jim Sullivan
- 1997 · Mimic as Dr. Gates
- 1997 · Eruption as President Mendoza
- 1996 · Children of the Revolution as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
- 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self
- 1996 · Dead Man's Walk as Caleb Cobb
- 1995 · Mighty Aphrodite as Chorleiter
- 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 · 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 · By the Sword as Suba
- 1991 · Mobsters as Arnold Rothstein
- 1991 · Money as Will Scarlet
- 1990 · The Bonfire of the Vanities as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
- 1990 · Drums of Fire as Osrain
- 1990 · Cadence as Capt. Ramon Garcia
- 1990 · A Season of Giants as Papa Giulio II
- 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
- 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)
- 1988 · The Third Solution as Father Carafa
- 1987 · La rosa dei nomi as Self
- 1986 · The Name of the Rose as Bernardo Gui
- 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 · 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)
- Future · Out of This World as
- 2022 · The Siege of Vienna as
- 2019 · Okavango: River of Dreams as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · The Letter as Narrator
- 2018 · Super Cats as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Every Act of Life as Self
- 2017 · Road to 9/11 as Himself - Narrator
- 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
- 2012 · The Unseen World as John Henry Newman
- 2011 · Is That Skunk? as Narrator
- 2010 · In the Valley of the Wolves as Narrator
- 2009 · Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
- 2009 · The Dragon Chronicles as Narrator
- 2007 · Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America as Narrator
- 2007 · Come le formiche as Ruggero
- 2006 · Quiet Flows the Don as Pantaley
- 2006 · Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers as Jeffrey
- 2004 · Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire as
- 2003 · Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites as Readings (Voice)
- 2001 · Knights of the Quest as Delfinello da Coverzano
- 2000 · Un dono semplice as 主演
- 2000 · The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
- 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 · Vacation in Hell as Belisario
- 1996 · Baby Face Nelson as Al Capone
- 1995 · Dillinger and Capone as Al Capone
- 1993 · Sweet Killing as Zargo
- 1991 · Eye of the Widow as Kharoun
- 1990 · The Little Match Girl as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · Performance Pieces as Jack Narwhal
- 1986 · The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self
- 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
- 1978 · A.E.S. Hudson Street as
- Future · Bookends as Saul Cohen
- 1977 · Sex and the Married Woman as Duke Skaggs
- 1971 · All in the Family as Clerk
- Future · Dead Lawyers as