F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham

24 Oct 1939 (84 years old) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he came to prominence for his acclaimed leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Abraham made his Broadway debut in the 1968 play 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 starred in Mythic Quest (2020–2021), Moon Knight (2022), and The White Lotus (2022) with the latter earning him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series.

Known For

Credits

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