Acting
F. Murray Abraham
FR, EN, IT, CS cinema · 134 credits
Born
24 October 1939 (age 87)
Birthplace
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as Frank Murray Abraham · Murray Abraham
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.
Known for
Filmography
Sharkland
as Narrator
Bookends
as Saul Cohen
Milarepa
as Oyun
The Phoenician Scheme
as Prophet
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
Mother, Couch
as Marcus / Marco
Double Soul
as Mentor
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Magic Flute
as Dr. Longbow
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
as Self (archive footage)
Things Heard & Seen
as Floyd DeBeers
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
as Grimmel (voice)
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
as Ayatollah (archive footage)
The Letter
as Narrator
Super Cats
as Narrator (voice)
Isle of Dogs
as Jupiter (voice)
Robin Hood
as Cardinal
411
as Information (voice)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Mr. Moustafa
The Mystery of Dante
as Dante Alter Ego
A Little Game
as Norman Wallach
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Bud Grossman
Dead Man Down
as Gregor
Love, Marilyn
as Self
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
as The Margrave
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
as Marco D'Aviano
The Unseen World
2012
The Unseen World
as John Henry Newman
Is That Skunk?
as Narrator
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
2010
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
as Narrates Program One
In the Valley of the Wolves
as Narrator
Perestroika
as Professor Gross
Barbarossa
as Siniscalco Barozzi
The Dragon Chronicles
as Narrator
Language of the Enemy
as Grandfather Wahid
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
as Leon See
Shark Swarm
as Professor Bill Girdler
Ballerina
as Goran
Blood Monkey
as Professor Hamilton
The Final Inquiry
as Nathan
Come le formiche
as Ruggero
The Beauty of Ugly
2007
The Beauty of Ugly
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Stone Merchant
as Shahid
Quiet Flows The Don
as Pantaley
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Viceroy of Peru
Five Moons Plaza
as Entita
My Father
as Paul Minsky
Joshua
as Father Tardone
Ticker
as Airport Guru
The Making of 'Amadeus'
as Self - Salieri
Knights of the Quest
as Delfinello da Coverzano
Thir13en Ghosts
as Cyrus
Finding Forrester
as Robert Crawford
The Darkling
as Bruno Rubin
Un dono semplice
as Thomas Barlow
Esther
as Mordechai
Excellent Cadavers
as Tommaso Buscetta
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
as Professor Henry Covington
Star Trek: Insurrection
as Ad'har Ru'afo
Mimic
as Dr. Gates
Eruption
as President Mendoza
Color of Justice
as Jim Sullivan
Vacation in Hell
as Belisario
Children of the Revolution
as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Baby Face Nelson
as Al Capone
Puma: Lion of the Andes
as Narrator (voice)
Mighty Aphrodite
as Chorleiter
Dillinger and Capone
as Al Capone
Surviving the Game
as Wolfe, Sr.
Nostradamus
as Scalinger
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
as Goldstein
L'Affaire
as Lucien Haslans
Fresh
as Chess Hustler
Jamila
as Older Seit
Last Action Hero
as John Practice
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as Harold Leacher
Journey to the Center of the Earth
as Professor Harlech
Through an Open Window
as Narrator
The First Circle
as Stalin
By the Sword
as Suba
Money
as Will Scarlet
Mobsters
as Arnold Rothstein
Eye of the Widow
as Kharoun
The Bonfire of the Vanities
as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
The Little Match Girl
as Narrator (voice)
Largo Desolato
1990
Largo Desolato
as Professor Leopold Nettles
A Season of Giants
as Papa Giulio II
Cadence
as Capt. Ramon Garcia
Drums of Fire
as Osrain
Performance Pieces
as Jack Narwhal
Slipstream
as Cornelius
An Innocent Man
as Virgil Cane
The Favorite
as Abdul Hamid
Beyond the Stars
as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
The Third Solution
as Father Carafa
Il Trovatore
as Self - Host
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
as Self - Narrator (voice)
La rosa dei nomi
as Self
The Name of the Rose
as Bernardo Gui
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
as Herman Melville
Amadeus
as Antonio Salieri
Scarface
as Omar
The Big Fix
as Eppis
Madman
as Marco Cohen
Sex and the Married Woman
as Duke Skaggs
The Ritz
as Chris
All the President's Men
as Arresting Officer #1
The Sunshine Boys
as Mechanic
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
as Taxi Driver
Serpico
as Detective Partner (uncredited)
They Might Be Giants
as Clyde (the usher)