F. Murray Abraham
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 24, 1939 (age 86)
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Credits
- 173
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.
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Known for
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014Movie
Mr. Moustafa
Scarface
1983Movie
Omar
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019Movie
Grimmel (voice)
Isle of Dogs
2018Movie
Jupiter (voice)
Amadeus
1984Movie
Antonio Salieri
Moon Knight
2022TV
Khonshu (voice)
Filmography
Bookends
2026Movie
Saul Cohen
This Ordinary Thing
2025Movie
Self (voice)
Marvel Zombies
2025TV
Khonshu (voice)
Milarepa
2025Movie
Oyun
The Phoenician Scheme
2025Movie
Prophet
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
2025Movie
Himself
Mother, Couch
2024Movie
Marcus / Marco
Double Soul
2023Movie
Mentor
White House Plumbers
2023TV
Judge John Sirica
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022TV
Dr. Carl Winters
The Magic Flute
2022Movie
Dr. Longbow
The Siege of Vienna
2022Movie
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022Movie
Self (archive footage)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022Movie
Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Moon Knight
2022TV
Khonshu (voice)
The White Lotus
2021TV
Bert Di Grasso
Things Heard & Seen
2021Movie
Floyd DeBeers
Mythic Quest
2020TV
C.W. Longbottom
Lady and the Tramp
2019Movie
Tony
Okavango: River of Dreams
2019TV
Narrator (voice)
Chimerica
2019TV
Frank Sams
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019Movie
Ayatollah (archive footage)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019Movie
Grimmel (voice)
The Letter
2018Movie
Narrator
Robin Hood
2018Movie
Cardinal
Super Cats
2018Movie
Narrator (voice)
Every Act of Life
2018Movie
Self
Isle of Dogs
2018Movie
Jupiter (voice)
The Orville
2017TV
Chairman
Road to 9/11
2017TV
Self - Narrator
The Good Fight
2017TV
Burl Preston
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
411
2015Movie
Information (voice)
A Little Game
2014Movie
Norman Wallach
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014Movie
Self
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014Movie
Mr. Moustafa
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self
The Mystery of Dante
2014Movie
Dante Alter Ego
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013Movie
Bud Grossman
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
2013Movie
Braque
Love, Marilyn
2013Movie
Self
Dead Man Down
2013Movie
Gregor
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2012Movie
The Margrave
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
2012Movie
Marco D'Aviano
Beauty and the Beast
2012TV
Cyril
Elementary
2012TV
Daniel Gottlieb
The Unseen World
2012Movie
John Henry Newman
Homeland
2011TV
Dar Adal
Is That Skunk?
2011Movie
Narrator
Blue Bloods
2010TV
Leon Goodwin
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
2010Movie
Narrates Program One
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
2010Movie
In the Valley of the Wolves
2010Movie
Narrator
Barbarossa
2009Movie
Siniscalco Barozzi
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009Movie
Self
The Good Wife
2009TV
Burl Preston
Bored to Death
2009TV
Professor Richard Hawkes
Perestroika
2009Movie
Professor Gross
The Dragon Chronicles
2009Movie
Narrator
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
2008Movie
Leon See
Shark Swarm
2008Movie
Professor Bill Girdler
Language of the Enemy
2008Movie
Grandfather Wahid
Ballerina
2008Movie
Goran
The Beauty of Ugly
2007Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
2007Movie
Narrator
Blood Monkey
2007Movie
Professor Hamilton
Saving Grace
2007TV
Matthew
Come le formiche
2007Movie
Ruggero
The Final Inquiry
2007Movie
Nathan
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
2007TV
Nathan
Quiet Flows The Don
2006Movie
Pantaley
Quiet Flows the Don
2006TV
Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
The Stone Merchant
2006Movie
Shahid
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
2006Movie
Jeffrey
40 Years of Star Trek
2006Movie
Self
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004Movie
Viceroy of Peru
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
2004Movie
My Father
2003Movie
Paul Minsky
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
2003Movie
Self
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
2003TV
Readings (Voice)
Five Moons Plaza
2003Movie
Entita
Ticker
2002Movie
Airport Guru
The Making of 'Amadeus'
2002Movie
Self - Salieri
Joshua
2002Movie
Father Tardone
Thir13en Ghosts
2001Movie
Cyrus
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001TV
Theodore Nichols
The Hire
2001TV
Airport Guru
Knights of the Quest
2001Movie
Delfinello da Coverzano
Un dono semplice
2000Movie
Thomas Barlow
Finding Forrester
2000Movie
Robert Crawford
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000TV
Ayatollah
The Darkling
2000Movie
Bruno Rubin
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000Movie
Self
Excellent Cadavers
1999Movie
Tommaso Buscetta
Muppets from Space
1999Movie
Noah
Noah's Ark
1999TV
Lot
Esther
1999Movie
Mordechai
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
1999Movie
Professor Henry Covington
Star Trek: Insurrection
1998Movie
Ad'har Ru'afo
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
1998Movie
Himself
Vacation in Hell
1997Movie
Belisario
Einstein Revealed
1997Movie
Narrator
Color of Justice
1997Movie
Jim Sullivan
Mimic
1997Movie
Dr. Gates
Eruption
1997Movie
President Mendoza
Children of the Revolution
1996Movie
Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Puma: Lion of the Andes
1996Movie
Narrator (voice)
Looking for Richard
1996Movie
Self
Dead Man's Walk
1996TV
Caleb Cobb
Baby Face Nelson
1996Movie
Al Capone
Mighty Aphrodite
1995Movie
Chorleiter
Dillinger and Capone
1995Movie
Al Capone
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
1994Movie
Goldstein
Nostradamus
1994Movie
Scalinger
Fresh
1994Movie
Chess Hustler
Surviving the Game
1994Movie
Wolfe, Sr.
L'Affaire
1994Movie
Lucien Haslans
Jamila
1994Movie
Older Seit
Sweet Killing
1993Movie
Zargo
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1993Movie
Professor Harlech
Last Action Hero
1993Movie
John Practice
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993Movie
Harold Leacher
Through an Open Window
1992Movie
Narrator
The First Circle
1992Movie
Stalin
Eye of the Widow
1991Movie
Kharoun
By the Sword
1991Movie
Suba
Mobsters
1991Movie
Arnold Rothstein
Money
1991Movie
Will Scarlet
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990Movie
D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
Drums of Fire
1990Movie
Osrain
The Little Match Girl
1990Movie
Narrator (voice)
Cadence
1990Movie
Capt. Ramon Garcia
A Season of Giants
1990Movie
Papa Giulio II
A Season of Giants
1990TV
Papa Giulio II
Performance Pieces
1990Movie
Jack Narwhal
Largo Desolato
1990Movie
Professor Leopold Nettles
I promessi sposi
1989TV
l'Innominato
The Making of Slipstream
1989Movie
An Innocent Man
1989Movie
Virgil Cane
The Favorite
1989Movie
Abdul Hamid
Slipstream
1989Movie
Cornelius
Beyond the Stars
1989Movie
Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
Il Trovatore
1988Movie
Self - Host
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
1988Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
American Experience
1988TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Third Solution
1988Movie
Father Carafa
La rosa dei nomi
1987Movie
Self
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986Movie
Self
The Name of the Rose
1986Movie
Bernardo Gui
Dream West
1986TV
President Abraham Lincoln
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
1985Movie
Herman Melville
Amadeus
1984Movie
Antonio Salieri
Scarface
1983Movie
Omar
Marco Polo
1982TV
Jacopo
Nature
1982TV
Narrator (voice)
The Big Fix
1978Movie
Eppis
A.E.S. Hudson Street
1978TV
Madman
1978Movie
Marco Cohen
Sex and the Married Woman
1977Movie
Duke Skaggs
The Andros Targets
1977TV
Bobby Carr
The Ritz
1976Movie
Chris
All the President's Men
1976Movie
Arresting Officer #1
The Sunshine Boys
1975Movie
Mechanic
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975Movie
Taxi Driver
NOVA
1974TV
Narrator
Serpico
1973Movie
Detective Partner (uncredited)
Kojak
1973TV
Solly Nurse, Eddie Gordon
They Might Be Giants
1971Movie
Clyde (the usher)
All in the Family
1971TV
Clerk
Out of This World
Movie
Time Out
Movie
Dead Lawyers
Movie
Sharkland
Movie
Narrator