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
2025
- Marvel Zombies as Khonshu (voice)
- The Phoenician Scheme as Prophet
- Milarepa as Oyun
- This Ordinary Thing as Voice
2024
- Mother, Couch as Marcus / Marco
2023
- Double Soul as Mentor
- White House Plumbers as Judge John Sirica
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)
- 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
- Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail as Ayatollah (archive footage)
- Chimerica as Frank Sams
- Okavango: River of Dreams as Narrator (voice)
2018
- Robin Hood as Cardinal
- Isle of Dogs as Jupiter (voice)
- The Letter as Narrator
- Every Act of Life as Self
- Super Cats as Narrator (voice)
2017
- The Good Fight as Burl Preston
- The Orville as Chairman
- Road to 9/11 as Himself - Narrator
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- 411 as Information (voice)
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- The Grand Budapest Hotel as Mr. Moustafa
- A Little Game as Norman Wallach
- Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as Self
- The Mystery of Dante as Dante Alter Ego
- Goltzius & the Pelican Company as The Margrave
2013
- Love, Marilyn as Self
- Inside Llewyn Davis as Bud Grossman
- Dead Man Down as Gregor
- The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die as Braque
2012
- Elementary as Daniel Gottlieb
- Beauty and the Beast as Cyril
- The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 as Marco D'Aviano
- Beauty and the Beast as Cyril
- The Unseen World as John Henry Newman
2011
- Homeland as Dar Adal
- Is That Skunk? as Narrator
2010
- Blue Bloods as Leon Goodwin
- Nature Amazing Places Hawaii as Narrates Program One
- Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
- In the Valley of the Wolves as Narrator
2009
- The Good Wife as Burl Preston
- Barbarossa as Siniscalco Barozzi
- Perestroika as Professor Gross
- Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
- 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
- Blood Monkey as Professor Hamilton
- The Final Inquiry as Nathan
- Saving Grace as Matthew
- The Beauty of Ugly as Self - Narrator (voice)
- L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII as Nathan
- Come le formiche as Ruggero
- Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America as Narrator
2006
- Quiet Flows The Don as Pantaley
- 40 Years of Star Trek as Self
- The Stone Merchant as Shahid
- Quiet Flows the Don as Pantaley
- Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers as Jeffrey
2004
- Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Viceroy of Peru
2003
- My Father as Paul Minsky
- Five Moons Plaza as Entita
- Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites as Readings (Voice)
- 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
- Knights Of The Quest as Delfinello da Coverzano
- The Hire as Airport Guru
2000
- Curb Your Enthusiasm as Ayatollah
- Finding Forrester as Robert Crawford
- Un dono semplice as 主演
- The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
- The Darkling as Bruno Rubin
1999
- Esther as Mordechai
- Excellent Cadavers as Tommaso Buscetta
- Muppets from Space as Noah
- Noah's Ark as Lot
- 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
- Einstein Revealed as Narrator
- Color of Justice as Jim Sullivan
- Eruption as President Mendoza
- Vacation in Hell as Belisario
1996
- Looking for Richard as Self
- Children of the Revolution as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
- Baby Face Nelson as Al Capone
- Dead Man's Walk as Caleb Cobb
1995
- Mighty Aphrodite as Chorleiter
- Dillinger and Capone as Al Capone
1994
- Fresh as Chess Hustler
- Jamila as Older Seit
- Nostradamus as Scalinger
- Surviving the Game as Wolfe, Sr.
- L'Affaire as Lucien Haslans
1993
- Last Action Hero as John Practice
- Journey to the Center of the Earth as Professor Harlech
- National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as Harold Leacher
- Sweet Killing as Zargo
1992
- The First Circle as Stalin
- Through an Open Window as Narrator
1991
- Mobsters as Arnold Rothstein
- Money as Will Scarlet
- Eye of the Widow as Kharoun
- By the Sword as Suba
1990
- Largo Desolato as Professor Leopold Nettles
- Cadence as Capt. Ramon Garcia
- The Bonfire of the Vanities as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
- Drums of Fire as Osrain
- Performance Pieces as Jack Narwhal
- The Little Match Girl as Narrator (voice)
- A Season of Giants as Papa Giulio II
1989
- Slipstream as Cornelius
- Beyond the Stars as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
- An Innocent Man as Virgil Cane
- The Favorite as Abdul Hamid
- I promessi sposi as l'Innominato
- 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
- Madman as Marco Cohen
- The Big Fix as Eppis
- A.E.S. Hudson Street
1977
- The Andros Targets as Bobby Carr
- Sex and the Married Woman as Duke Skaggs
1976
- The Ritz as Chris
- All the President's Men as Arresting Officer #1
1975
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue as Taxi Driver
- The Sunshine Boys as Mechanic
1974
- NOVA as Narrator
1971
- All in the Family as Clerk
- They Might Be Giants as Clyde (the usher)