F. Murray Abraham

Born: 1939-10-24 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Known For: Acting

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

2026

Bookends as Saul Cohen

2025

Marvel Zombies as Khonshu (voice)
The Phoenician Scheme as Prophet
This Ordinary Thing as Self (voice)
Milarepa as Oyun
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece as Himself

2024

Mother, Couch as Marcus / Marco

2023

White House Plumbers as Judge John Sirica
Double Soul as Mentor

2022

Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice)
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities as Dr. Carl Winters
The Magic Flute as Dr. Longbow
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose as Self (archive footage)
The Siege of Vienna

2021

The White Lotus as Bert Di Grasso
Things Heard & Seen as Floyd DeBeers

2020

Mythic Quest as C.W. Longbottom

2019

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World as Grimmel (voice)
Lady and the Tramp as Tony
Chimerica as Frank Sams
Okavango: River of Dreams as Narrator (voice)
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail as Ayatollah (archive footage)

2018

Robin Hood as Cardinal
Isle of Dogs as Jupiter (voice)
Every Act of Life as Self
The Letter as Narrator
Super Cats as Narrator (voice)

2017

The Orville as Chairman
The Good Fight as Burl Preston
Road to 9/11 as Himself - Narrator

2011

Homeland as Dar Adal
Is That Skunk? as Narrator

2010

Blue Bloods as Leon Goodwin
In the Valley of the Wolves as Narrator
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii as Narrates Program One
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air

2009

The Good Wife as Burl Preston
Bored to Death as Professor Richard Hawkes
Barbarossa as Siniscalco Barozzi
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
Perestroika as Professor Gross
The Dragon Chronicles as Narrator

2008

Shark Swarm as Professor Bill Girdler
Carnera: The Walking Mountain as Leon See
Ballerina as Goran
A House Divided as Grandfather Wahid

2007

Saving Grace as Matthew
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII as Nathan
Blood Monkey as Professor Hamilton
The Final Inquiry as Nathan
Come le formiche as Ruggero
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America as Narrator
The Beauty of Ugly as Self - Narrator (voice)

2006

Quiet Flows the Don as Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
Quiet Flows The Don as Pantaley
The Stone Merchant as Shahid
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers as Jeffrey
40 Years of Star Trek as Self

2004

The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Viceroy of Peru
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire

2003

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites as Readings (Voice)
My Father as Paul Minsky
Five Moons Plaza as Entita
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks as Self

2002

Joshua as Father Tardone
The Making of 'Amadeus' as Self - Salieri
Ticker as Airport Guru

2001

Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Theodore Nichols
Thir13en Ghosts as Cyrus
The Hire as Airport Guru
Knights Of The Quest as Delfinello da Coverzano

2000

Curb Your Enthusiasm as Ayatollah
Finding Forrester as Robert Crawford
The Darkling as Bruno Rubin
The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
Un dono semplice as Thomas Barlow

1999

Muppets from Space as Noah
Noah's Ark as Lot
Esther as Mordechai
Excellent Cadavers as Tommaso Buscetta
Noah's Ark as Lót
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy as Professor Henry Covington

1998

Star Trek: Insurrection as Ad'har Ru'afo
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin as Himself

1997

Mimic as Dr. Gates
Eruption as President Mendoza
Einstein Revealed as Narrator
Color of Justice as Jim Sullivan
Vacation in Hell as Belisario

1996

Dead Man's Walk as Caleb Cobb
Looking for Richard as Self
Children of the Revolution as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Baby Face Nelson as Al Capone
Puma: Lion of the Andes as Narrator (voice)

1995

Mighty Aphrodite as Chorleiter
Dillinger and Capone as Al Capone

1994

Fresh as Chess Hustler
Surviving the Game as Wolfe, Sr.
L'Affaire as Lucien Haslans
Nostradamus as Scalinger
Jamila as Older Seit

1993

Last Action Hero as John Practice
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as Harold Leacher
Journey to the Center of the Earth as Professor Harlech
Sweet Killing as Zargo

1992

The First Circle as Stalin
Through an Open Window as Narrator

1991

Mobsters as Arnold Rothstein
By the Sword as Suba
Eye of the Widow as Kharoun
Money as Will Scarlet

1990

The Bonfire of the Vanities as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
Cadence as Capt. Ramon Garcia
A Season of Giants as Papa Giulio II
Drums of Fire as Osrain
Largo Desolato as Professor Leopold Nettles
Performance Pieces as Jack Narwhal
The Little Match Girl as Narrator (voice)

1989

I promessi sposi as l'Innominato
An Innocent Man as Virgil Cane
Slipstream as Cornelius
Beyond the Stars as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
The Favorite as Abdul Hamid
The Making of Slipstream

1988

American Experience as Self - Narrator (voice)
Il Trovatore as Self - Host
The Third Solution as Father Carafa
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
Dream West as President Abraham Lincoln
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self

1985

Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise as Herman Melville

1984

Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier as Goldstein

1983

Scarface as Omar

1982

Nature as Narrator (voice)
Marco Polo as Jacopo

1978

A.E.S. Hudson Street
The Big Fix as Eppis
Madman as Marco Cohen

1977

The Andros Targets as Bobby Carr
Sex and the Married Woman as Duke Skaggs

1976

All the President's Men as Arresting Officer #1
The Ritz as Chris

1975

The Prisoner of Second Avenue as Taxi Driver
The Sunshine Boys as Mechanic

1974

NOVA as Narrator

1973

Kojak as Solly Nurse
Serpico as Detective Partner (uncredited)

1971

All in the Family as Clerk
They Might Be Giants as Clyde (the usher)