F. Murray Abraham
Acting • Born 1939-10-24
Biography
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.
Filmography
170 credits
Scarface
Movie • 1983
Omar
The Name of the Rose
Movie • 1986
Bernardo Gui
Star Trek: Insurrection
Movie • 1998
Ad'har Ru'afo
Amadeus
Movie • 1984
Antonio Salieri
Finding Forrester
Movie • 2000
Robert Crawford
Esther
Movie • 1999
Mordechai
Five Moons Plaza
Movie • 2003
Entita
A House Divided
Movie • 2008
Grandfather Wahid
Mimic
Movie • 1997
Dr. Gates
The Darkling
Movie • 2000
Bruno Rubin
Slipstream
Movie • 1989
Cornelius
Mighty Aphrodite
Movie • 1995
Chorleiter
Perestroika
Movie • 2009
Professor Gross
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Movie • 1990
D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
Last Action Hero
Movie • 1993
John Practice
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Movie • 1993
Harold Leacher
Children of the Revolution
Movie • 1996
Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
Movie • 2008
Leon See
Double Soul
Movie • 2023
Mentor
An Innocent Man
Movie • 1989
Virgil Cane
The Big Fix
Movie • 1978
Eppis
Blood Monkey
Movie • 2007
Professor Hamilton
By the Sword
Movie • 1991
Suba
The Stone Merchant
Movie • 2006
Shahid
Knights Of The Quest
Movie • 2001
Delfinello da Coverzano
The Ritz
Movie • 1976
Chris
Barbarossa
Movie • 2009
Siniscalco Barozzi
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Movie • 2004
Viceroy of Peru
The Sunshine Boys
Movie • 1975
Mechanic
Surviving the Game
Movie • 1994
Wolfe, Sr.
The Little Match Girl
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
Nostradamus
Movie • 1994
Scalinger
Joshua
Movie • 2002
Father Tardone
Excellent Cadavers
Movie • 1999
Tommaso Buscetta
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Movie • 1975
Taxi Driver
Sweet Killing
Movie • 1993
Zargo
The Favorite
Movie • 1989
Abdul Hamid
Dillinger and Capone
Movie • 1995
Al Capone
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Movie • 1984
Goldstein
Einstein Revealed
Movie • 1997
Narrator
Through an Open Window
Movie • 1992
Narrator
Inside Llewyn Davis
Movie • 2013
Bud Grossman
Shark Swarm
Movie • 2008
Professor Bill Girdler
Dead Man Down
Movie • 2013
Gregor
Love, Marilyn
Movie • 2013
Self
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Movie • 2014
Mr. Moustafa
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
Movie • 2006
Jeffrey
Quiet Flows The Don
Movie • 2006
Pantaley
Mother, Couch
Movie • 2024
Marcus / Marco
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
Movie • 2012
The Margrave
Madman
Movie • 1978
Marco Cohen
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
Movie • 2012
Marco D'Aviano
Money
Movie • 1991
Will Scarlet
Largo Desolato
Movie • 1990
Professor Leopold Nettles
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
Movie • 2013
Braque
Is That Skunk?
Movie • 2011
Narrator
Baby Face Nelson
Movie • 1996
Al Capone
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
Movie • 1999
Professor Henry Covington
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Movie • 1993
Professor Harlech
The Mystery of Dante
Movie • 2014
Dante Alter Ego
Muppets from Space
Movie • 1999
Noah
Thir13en Ghosts
Movie • 2001
Cyrus
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Movie • 2022
Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
They Might Be Giants
Movie • 1971
Clyde (the usher)
Mobsters
Movie • 1991
Arnold Rothstein
A Season of Giants
Movie • 1990
Papa Giulio II
Cadence
Movie • 1990
Capt. Ramon Garcia
Sex and the Married Woman
Movie • 1977
Duke Skaggs
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
Movie • 2007
Narrator
The Letter
Movie • 2018
Narrator
Eye of the Widow
Movie • 1991
Kharoun
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Movie • 2014
Self
Eruption
Movie • 1997
President Mendoza
Drums of Fire
Movie • 1990
Osrain
A Little Game
Movie • 2014
Norman Wallach
The First Circle
Movie • 1992
Stalin
The Siege of Vienna
Movie • 2022
My Father
Movie • 2003
Paul Minsky
Milarepa
Movie • 2025
Oyun
Color of Justice
Movie • 1997
Jim Sullivan
Serpico
Movie • 1973
Detective Partner (uncredited)
All the President's Men
Movie • 1976
Arresting Officer #1
Super Cats
Movie • 2018
Narrator (voice)
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
Movie • 2004
Ticker
Movie • 2002
Airport Guru
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Movie • 1998
Himself
L'Affaire
Movie • 1994
Lucien Haslans
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
Movie • 2010
Narrates Program One
Isle of Dogs
Movie • 2018
Jupiter (voice)
Un dono semplice
Movie • 2000
主演
Beyond the Stars
Movie • 1989
Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
Fresh
Movie • 1994
Chess Hustler
Looking for Richard
Movie • 1996
Self
The Final Inquiry
Movie • 2007
Nathan
The Third Solution
Movie • 1988
Father Carafa
Jamila
Movie • 1994
Older Seit
The Making of 'Amadeus'
Movie • 2002
Self - Salieri
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Movie • 2009
Self
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Movie • 2003
Self
Vacation in Hell
Movie • 1997
Belisario
Every Act of Life
Movie • 2018
Self
Robin Hood
Movie • 2018
Cardinal
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Movie • 2019
Grimmel (voice)
40 Years of Star Trek
Movie • 2006
Self
Come le formiche
Movie • 2007
Ruggero
Lady and the Tramp
Movie • 2019
Tony
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Movie • 2019
Ayatollah (archive footage)
411
Movie • 2015
Information (voice)
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
Movie • 2010
In the Valley of the Wolves
Movie • 2010
Narrator
The Dragon Chronicles
Movie • 2009
Narrator
The Beauty of Ugly
Movie • 2007
Self - Narrator (voice)
Il Trovatore
Movie • 1988
Self - Host
Ballerina
Movie • 2008
Goran
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Movie • 1986
Self
La rosa dei nomi
Movie • 1987
Self
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Movie • 1988
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Magic Flute
Movie • 2022
Dr. Longbow
Things Heard & Seen
Movie • 2021
Floyd DeBeers
The Unseen World
Movie • 2012
John Henry Newman
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Movie • 1985
Herman Melville
Beauty and the Beast
Movie • 2012
Cyril
Bookends
Movie • 2026
Saul Cohen
Dead Lawyers
Movie
The Directors: Milos Forman
Movie • 2000
Self
The Phoenician Scheme
Movie • 2025
Prophet
The Making of Slipstream
Movie • 1989
Out of This World
Movie
Performance Pieces
Movie • 1990
Jack Narwhal
This Ordinary Thing
Movie • 2025
Self (voice)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Puma: Lion of the Andes
Movie • 1996
Narrator (voice)
Homeland
TV • 2011
Dar Adal
All in the Family
TV • 1971
Clerk
Kojak
TV • 1973
Solly Nurse
A.E.S. Hudson Street
TV • 1978
Nature
TV • 1982
Narrator (voice)
The Andros Targets
TV • 1977
Bobby Carr
Elementary
TV • 2012
Daniel Gottlieb
NOVA
TV • 1974
Narrator
Dead Man's Walk
TV • 1996
Caleb Cobb
Blue Bloods
TV • 2010
Leon Goodwin
White House Plumbers
TV • 2023
Judge John Sirica
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Theodore Nichols
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Burl Preston
Dream West
TV • 1986
President Abraham Lincoln
Beauty and the Beast
TV • 2012
Cyril
The Hire
TV • 2001
Airport Guru
Moon Knight
TV • 2022
Khonshu (voice)
Kojak
TV • 1973
Eddie Gordon
I promessi sposi
TV • 1989
l'Innominato
Noah's Ark
TV • 1999
Lot
American Experience
TV • 1988
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Good Fight
TV • 2017
Burl Preston
Road to 9/11
TV • 2017
Himself - Narrator
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
TV • 2007
Nathan
Chimerica
TV • 2019
Frank Sams
The White Lotus
TV • 2021
Bert Di Grasso
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
TV • 2022
Dr. Carl Winters
Mythic Quest
TV • 2020
C.W. Longbottom
Marco Polo
TV • 1982
Jacopo
Okavango: River of Dreams
TV • 2019
Narrator (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
The Orville
TV • 2017
Chairman
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV • 2000
Ayatollah
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
TV • 2003
Readings (Voice)
Marvel Zombies
TV • 2025
Khonshu (voice)
Saving Grace
TV • 2007
Matthew
Quiet Flows the Don
TV • 2006
Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov