Portrait of F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham

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.

Born: October 24, 1939

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Filmography

2025
Marvel Zombies

as Khonshu (voice)

2025
Milarepa

as Oyun

2025
2024
Mother, Couch

as Marcus / Marco

2023
Double Soul

as Mentor

2023
White House Plumbers

as Judge John Sirica

2022
The Magic Flute

as Dr. Longbow

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
Okavango: River of Dreams

as Narrator (voice)

2019
Chimerica

as Frank Sams

2019
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

as Ayatollah (archive footage)

2018
The Letter

as Narrator

2018
Robin Hood

as Cardinal

2018
Super Cats

as Narrator (voice)

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
411

as Information (voice)

2014
A Little Game

as Norman Wallach

2014
2014
The Mystery of Dante

as Dante Alter Ego

2013
Inside Llewyn Davis

as Bud Grossman

2013
2013
Dead Man Down

as Gregor

2012
Elementary

as Daniel Gottlieb

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

2009
Barbarossa

as Siniscalco Barozzi

2009
The Good Wife

as Burl Preston

2009
Perestroika

as Professor Gross

2008
Shark Swarm

as Professor Bill Girdler

2008
Ballerina

as Goran

2007
Blood Monkey

as Professor Hamilton

2007
Saving Grace

as Matthew

2007
2007
2006
2006
2006
2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as Viceroy of Peru

2003
My Father

as Paul Minsky

2003
2002
Ticker

as Airport Guru

2002
The Making of 'Amadeus'

as Self - Salieri

2002
Joshua

as Father Tardone

2001
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Theodore Nichols

2001
The Hire

as Airport Guru

2001
Knights Of The Quest

as Delfinello da Coverzano

2000
2000
Finding Forrester

as Robert Crawford

2000
2000
The Darkling

as Bruno Rubin

1999
Excellent Cadavers

as Tommaso Buscetta

1999
1999
Esther

as Mordechai

1998
Star Trek: Insurrection

as Ad'har Ru'afo

1997
Vacation in Hell

as Belisario

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
Dead Man's Walk

as Caleb Cobb

1996
Baby Face Nelson

as Al Capone

1995
Mighty Aphrodite

as Chorleiter

1995
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
1993
Last Action Hero

as John Practice

1992
1992
1991
1991
1991
Mobsters

as Arnold Rothstein

1991
Money

as Will Scarlet

1990
Drums of Fire

as Osrain

1990
The Bonfire of the Vanities

as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)

1990
The Little Match Girl

as Narrator (voice)

1990
Cadence

as Capt. Ramon Garcia

1990
A Season of Giants

as Papa Giulio II

1990
Performance Pieces

as Jack Narwhal

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
American Experience

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1988
The Great San Francisco Earthquake

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1988
The Third Solution

as Father Carafa

1987
1986
The Name of the Rose

as Bernardo Gui

1986
Dream West

as President Abraham Lincoln

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
Madman

as Marco Cohen

1977
1977
The Andros Targets

as Bobby Carr

1976
The Ritz

as Chris

1976
All the President's Men

as Arresting Officer #1

1975
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
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Bookends

as Saul Cohen