About
F. Murray Abraham
Overview
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
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| 2024 | Mother, Couch! | Actor | Marcus / Marco | 58 Average |
| 2024 | Milarepa | Actor | Oyun | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Double Soul | Actor | Mentor | 58 Average |
| 2022 | The Magic Flute | Actor | Dr. Longbow | 60 Fair |
| 2022 | The Siege of Vienna | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2022 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight | Actor | Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Moon Knight | Actor | Khonshu (voice) | 77 Good |
| 2021 | The White Lotus | Actor | Bert Di Grasso | 75 Good |
| 2021 | Things Heard & Seen | Actor | Floyd DeBeers | 57 Average |
| 2019 | Lady and the Tramp | Actor | Tony | 68 Fair |
| 2019 | Okavango: River of Dreams | Actor | vypravěč | 70 Good |
| 2019 | Chimerica | Actor | Frank Sams | 68 Fair |
| 2019 | Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail | Actor | Ayatollah (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Actor | Grimmel (voice) | 76 Good |
| 2018 | The Letter | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Robin Hood | Actor | Cardinal | 58 Average |
| 2018 | Super Cats | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Every Act of Life | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Actor | Jupiter (voice) | 76 Good |
| 2017 | Road to 9/11 | Actor | Himself - Narrator | 70 Good |
| 2015 | 411 | Actor | Information (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | A Little Game | Actor | Norman Wallach | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Actor | Mr. Moustafa | 79 Good |
| 2014 | The Mystery of Dante | Actor | Dante Alter Ego | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Goltzius & the Pelican Company | Actor | The Margrave | 59 Average |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Actor | Bud Grossman | 69 Fair |
| 2013 | The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die | Actor | Braque | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Love, Marilyn | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Dead Man Down | Actor | Gregor | 61 Fair |
| 2012 | Day of the Siege | Actor | Marco D'Aviano | 57 Average |
| 2012 | Beauty and the Beast | Actor | Cyril | 73 Good |
| 2012 | The Unseen World | Actor | John Henry Newman | N/A N/A |
| 2011 | Is That Skunk? | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | Nature Amazing Places Hawaii | Actor | Narrates Program One | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2010 | In the Valley of the Wolves | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Barbarossa | Actor | Siniscalco Barozzi | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Perestroika | Actor | Professor Gross | 58 Average |
| 2009 | The Dragon Chronicles | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | Carnera: The Walking Mountain | Actor | Leon See | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Shark Swarm | Actor | Professor Bill Girdler | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Ballerina | Actor | Goran | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | A House Divided | Actor | Grandfather Wahid | 59 Average |
| 2007 | The Beauty of Ugly | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Blood Monkey | Actor | Professor Hamilton | 58 Average |
| 2007 | Come le formiche | Actor | Ruggero | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | The Final Inquiry | Actor | Nathan | 58 Average |
| 2007 | L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII | Actor | Nathan | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | Quiet Flows The Don | Actor | Pantaley | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Quiet Flows the Don | Actor | Pantaley | 70 Good |
| 2006 | The Stone Merchant | Actor | Shahid | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers | Actor | Jeffrey | 58 Average |
| 2006 | 40 Years of Star Trek | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2004 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Actor | Viceroy of Peru | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Le nom de la rose : Le documentaire | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2003 | My Father | Actor | Paul Minsky | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Try to Remember: The Fantasticks | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Five Moons Plaza | Actor | Entita | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Ticker | Actor | Airport Guru | 59 Average |
| 2002 | The Making of 'Amadeus' | Actor | Self - Salieri | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Joshua | Actor | Father Tardone | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Thir13en Ghosts | Actor | Cyrus Kriticos | 61 Fair |
| 2001 | Knights of the Quest | Actor | Delfinello da Coverzano | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Un dono semplice | Actor | 主演 | N/A N/A |
| 2000 | Finding Forrester | Actor | Robert Crawford | 67 Fair |
| 2000 | The Darkling | Actor | Bruno Rubin | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Excellent Cadavers | Actor | Tommaso Buscetta | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Muppets from Space | Actor | Noah | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Noah's Ark | Actor | Lot | 60 Fair |
| 1999 | Esther | Actor | Mordechai | 59 Average |
| 1999 | The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy | Actor | Professor Henry Covington | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Star Trek: Insurrection | Actor | Ad'har Ru'afo | 62 Fair |
| 1998 | Waiting for Godot in San Quentin | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | Vacation in Hell | Actor | Belisario | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Einstein Revealed | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Color of Justice | Actor | Jim Sullivan | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Mimic | Actor | Dr. Gates | 60 Fair |
| 1997 | Eruption | Actor | President Mendoza | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Children of the Revolution | Actor | Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 1996 | Dead Man's Walk | Actor | Caleb Cobb | 68 Fair |
| 1996 | Baby Face Nelson | Actor | Al Capone | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Mighty Aphrodite | Actor | Chorleiter | 63 Fair |
| 1995 | Dillinger and Capone | Actor | Al Capone | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Nostradamus | Actor | Scalinger | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Fresh | Actor | Chess Hustler | 62 Fair |
| 1994 | Surviving the Game | Actor | Wolfe Sr. | 59 Average |
| 1994 | L'Affaire | Actor | Lucien Haslans | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Jamila | Actor | Older Seit | N/A N/A |
| 1993 | Sweet Killing | Actor | Zargo | 58 Average |
| 1993 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Actor | Professor Harlech | 58 Average |
| 1993 | Last Action Hero | Actor | John Practice | 64 Fair |
| 1993 | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 | Actor | Harold Leacher | 59 Average |
| 1992 | Through an Open Window | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 1992 | The First Circle | Actor | Stalin | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Eye of the Widow | Actor | Kharoun | 58 Average |
| 1991 | By the Sword | Actor | Suba | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Mobsters | Actor | Arnold Rothstein | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Money | Actor | Will Scarlet | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Drums of Fire | Actor | Osrain | 59 Average |
| 1990 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | Actor | D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited) | 57 Average |
| 1990 | The Little Match Girl | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1990 | Cadence | Actor | Capt. Ramon Garcia | 60 Fair |
| 1990 | A Season of Giants | Actor | Papa Giulio II | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Largo Desolato | Actor | Professor Leopold Nettles | N/A N/A |
| 1989 | I promessi sposi | Actor | l'Innominato | 69 Fair |
| 1989 | An Innocent Man | Actor | Virgil Cane | 59 Average |
| 1989 | The Favorite | Actor | Abdul Hamid | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Slipstream | Actor | Cornelius | 57 Average |
| 1989 | Beyond the Stars | Actor | Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man | 58 Average |
| 1988 | Il Trovatore | Actor | Self - Host | N/A N/A |
| 1988 | The Great San Francisco Earthquake | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1988 | The Third Solution | Actor | Father Carafa | 58 Average |
| 1987 | La rosa dei nomi | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1986 | The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1986 | The Name of the Rose | Actor | Bernardo Gui | 72 Good |
| 1986 | Dream West | Actor | President Abraham Lincoln | 69 Fair |
| 1984 | Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier | Actor | Goldstein | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Actor | Antonio Salieri | 77 Good |
| 1983 | Scarface | Actor | Omar | 80 Very good |
| 1978 | The Big Fix | Actor | Eppis | 58 Average |
| 1978 | A.E.S. Hudson Street | Actor | 70 Good |
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| 1978 | Madman | Actor | Marco Cohen | 59 Average |
| 1977 | Sex and the Married Woman | Actor | Duke Skaggs | 58 Average |
| 1976 | The Ritz | Actor | Chris | 59 Average |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Actor | Arresting Officer #1 | 73 Good |
| 1975 | The Sunshine Boys | Actor | Mechanic | 60 Fair |
| 1975 | The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Actor | Taxi Driver | 59 Average |
| 1973 | Serpico | Actor | Detective Partner (uncredited) | 71 Good |
| 1971 | They Might Be Giants | Actor | Clyde (the usher) | 59 Average |
| Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise | Actor | Herman Melville | N/A N/A |
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| Pompeii: The Last Day | Actor | Narrator | 70 Good |
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