F. Murray Abraham
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 24, 1939 (age 87)
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Known For
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Filmography
Out of This World
Movie
Time Out
Movie
Sharkland
Movie · as Narrator
Presenting Geraldine Page
Movie
Bookends
Movie · as Saul Cohen
Milarepa
Movie · as Oyun
The Phoenician Scheme
Movie · as Prophet
This Ordinary Thing
Movie · as Self (voice)
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
Movie · as Himself
Marvel Zombies
TV · as Khonshu (voice) · 1 ep
Mother, Couch
Movie · as Marcus / Marco
Double Soul
Movie · as Mentor
White House Plumbers
TV · as Judge John Sirica · 2 eps
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Movie · as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Siege of Vienna
Movie
The Magic Flute
Movie · as Dr. Longbow
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Moon Knight
TV · as Khonshu (voice) · 6 eps
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
TV · as Dr. Carl Winters · 1 ep
Things Heard & Seen
Movie · as Floyd DeBeers
The White Lotus
TV · as Bert Di Grasso · 7 eps
Mythic Quest
TV · as C.W. Longbottom · 20 eps
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Movie · as Grimmel (voice)
Lady and the Tramp
Movie · as Tony
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Movie · as Ayatollah (archive footage)
Chimerica
TV · as Frank Sams · 4 eps
Okavango: River of Dreams
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
The Letter
Movie · as Narrator
Super Cats
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Isle of Dogs
Movie · as Jupiter (voice)
Every Act of Life
Movie · as Self
Robin Hood
Movie · as Cardinal
The Good Fight
TV · as Burl Preston · 1 ep
Road to 9/11
TV · as Self - Narrator · 3 eps
The Orville
TV · as Chairman · 1 ep
411
Movie · as Information (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · 1 ep
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Movie · as Mr. Moustafa
The Mystery of Dante
Movie · as Dante Alter Ego
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Movie · as Self
A Little Game
Movie · as Norman Wallach
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Inside Llewyn Davis
Movie · as Bud Grossman
Dead Man Down
Movie · as Gregor
Love, Marilyn
Movie · as Self
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
Movie · as Braque
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
Movie · as The Margrave
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
Movie · as Marco D'Aviano
The Unseen World
Movie · as John Henry Newman
Elementary
TV · as Daniel Gottlieb · 1 ep
Beauty and the Beast
TV · as Cyril · 13 eps
Is That Skunk?
Movie · as Narrator
Homeland
TV · as Dar Adal · 43 eps
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
Movie · as Narrates Program One
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
Movie
In the Valley of the Wolves
Movie · as Narrator
Blue Bloods
TV · as Leon Goodwin · 1 ep
Perestroika
Movie · as Professor Gross
Barbarossa
Movie · as Siniscalco Barozzi
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Movie · as Self
The Dragon Chronicles
Movie · as Narrator
The Good Wife
TV · as Burl Preston · 4 eps
Bored to Death
TV · as Professor Richard Hawkes · 1 ep
Language of the Enemy
Movie · as Grandfather Wahid
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
Movie · as Leon See
Shark Swarm
Movie · as Professor Bill Girdler
Ballerina
Movie · as Goran
Blood Monkey
Movie · as Professor Hamilton
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
Movie · as Narrator
The Final Inquiry
Movie · as Nathan
Come le formiche
Movie · as Ruggero
The Beauty of Ugly
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
TV · as Nathan · 2 eps
Saving Grace
TV · as Matthew · 1 ep
The Stone Merchant
Movie · as Shahid
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
Movie · as Jeffrey
Quiet Flows The Don
Movie · as Pantaley
40 Years of Star Trek
Movie · as Self
Quiet Flows the Don
TV · as Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov · 7 eps
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Movie · as Viceroy of Peru
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
Movie
Dead Lawyers
Movie
Five Moons Plaza
Movie · as Entita
My Father
Movie · as Paul Minsky
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Movie · as Self
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
TV · as Readings (Voice) · 4 eps
Joshua
Movie · as Father Tardone
Ticker
Movie · as Airport Guru
The Making of 'Amadeus'
Movie · as Self - Salieri
Knights of the Quest
Movie · as Delfinello da Coverzano
Thir13en Ghosts
Movie · as Cyrus
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV · as Theodore Nichols · 1 ep
The Hire
TV · as Airport Guru · 1 ep
Finding Forrester
Movie · as Robert Crawford
The Darkling
Movie · as Bruno Rubin
Un dono semplice
Movie · as Thomas Barlow
The Directors: Milos Forman
Movie · as Self
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV · as Ayatollah · 1 ep
Esther
Movie · as Mordechai
Excellent Cadavers
Movie · as Tommaso Buscetta
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
Movie · as Professor Henry Covington
Muppets from Space
Movie · as Noah
Noah's Ark
TV · as Lot · 2 eps
Star Trek: Insurrection
Movie · as Ad'har Ru'afo
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Movie · as Himself
Mimic
Movie · as Dr. Gates
Einstein Revealed
Movie · as Narrator
Eruption
Movie · as President Mendoza
Color of Justice
Movie · as Jim Sullivan
Vacation in Hell
Movie · as Belisario
Children of the Revolution
Movie · as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Baby Face Nelson
Movie · as Al Capone
Looking for Richard
Movie · as Self
Puma: Lion of the Andes
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Dead Man's Walk
TV · as Caleb Cobb · 3 eps
Mighty Aphrodite
Movie · as Chorleiter
Dillinger and Capone
Movie · as Al Capone
Surviving the Game
Movie · as Wolfe, Sr.
Nostradamus
Movie · as Scalinger
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Movie · as Goldstein
L'Affaire
Movie · as Lucien Haslans
Fresh
Movie · as Chess Hustler
Jamila
Movie · as Older Seit
Last Action Hero
Movie · as John Practice
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Movie · as Harold Leacher
Sweet Killing
Movie · as Zargo
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Movie · as Professor Harlech
Through an Open Window
Movie · as Narrator
The First Circle
Movie · as Stalin
By the Sword
Movie · as Suba
Money
Movie · as Will Scarlet
Mobsters
Movie · as Arnold Rothstein
Eye of the Widow
Movie · as Kharoun
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Movie · as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
The Little Match Girl
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Largo Desolato
Movie · as Professor Leopold Nettles
A Season of Giants
Movie · as Papa Giulio II
Cadence
Movie · as Capt. Ramon Garcia
Drums of Fire
Movie · as Osrain
Performance Pieces
Movie · as Jack Narwhal
A Season of Giants
TV · as Papa Giulio II · 3 eps
Slipstream
Movie · as Cornelius
An Innocent Man
Movie · as Virgil Cane
The Favorite
Movie · as Abdul Hamid
Beyond the Stars
Movie · as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
The Making of Slipstream
Movie
I promessi sposi
TV · as l'Innominato · 5 eps
The Third Solution
Movie · as Father Carafa
Il Trovatore
Movie · as Self - Host
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
American Experience
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
La rosa dei nomi
Movie · as Self
The Name of the Rose
Movie · as Bernardo Gui
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Movie · as Self
Dream West
TV · as President Abraham Lincoln · 3 eps
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Movie · as Herman Melville
Amadeus
Movie · as Antonio Salieri
Scarface
Movie · as Omar
Nature
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 25 eps
Marco Polo
TV · as Jacopo · 6 eps
The Big Fix
Movie · as Eppis
Madman
Movie · as Marco Cohen
A.E.S. Hudson Street
TV · 6 eps
Sex and the Married Woman
Movie · as Duke Skaggs
The Andros Targets
TV · as Bobby Carr · 1 ep
The Ritz
Movie · as Chris
All the President's Men
Movie · as Arresting Officer #1
The Sunshine Boys
Movie · as Mechanic
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Movie · as Taxi Driver
NOVA
TV · as Narrator · 1 ep
Serpico
Movie · as Detective Partner (uncredited)
Kojak
TV · as Solly Nurse, Eddie Gordon · 2 eps
They Might Be Giants
Movie · as Clyde (the usher)
All in the Family
TV · as Clerk · 1 ep