F. Murray Abraham

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: Acting

Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 1939-10-24

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	They Might Be Giants	Clyde (the usher)	70
2	1973	Serpico	Detective Partner (uncredited)	75
3	1975	The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Taxi Driver	67
4	1975	The Sunshine Boys	Mechanic	68
5	1976	All the President's Men	Arresting Officer #1	77
6	1976	The Ritz	Chris	61
7	1977	Sex and the Married Woman	Duke Skaggs	10
8	1978	Madman	Marco Cohen	60
9	1978	The Big Fix	Eppis	56
10	1983	Scarface	Omar	82
11	1984	Amadeus	Antonio Salieri	80
12	1984	Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier	Goldstein	50
13	1986	The Name of the Rose	Bernardo Gui	75
14	1986	The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'	Self	80
15	1987	La rosa dei nomi	Self	75
16	1988	The Third Solution	Father Carafa	50
17	1988	The Great San Francisco Earthquake	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
18	1988	Il Trovatore	Self - Host	80
19	1989	Beyond the Stars	Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man	52
20	1989	Slipstream	Cornelius	45
21	1989	The Favorite	Abdul Hamid	47
22	1989	An Innocent Man	Virgil Cane	62
23	1990	Largo Desolato	Professor Leopold Nettles	0
24	1990	A Season of Giants	Papa Giulio II	65
25	1990	Cadence	Capt. Ramon Garcia	67
26	1990	The Little Match Girl	Narrator (voice)	0
27	1990	The Bonfire of the Vanities	D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)	56
28	1990	Drums of Fire	Osrain	65
29	1991	Money	Will Scarlet	62
30	1991	Mobsters	Arnold Rothstein	62
31	1991	By the Sword	Suba	60
32	1991	Eye of the Widow	Kharoun	33
33	1992	The First Circle	Stalin	48
34	1992	Through an Open Window	Narrator	0
35	1993	National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1	Harold Leacher	60
36	1993	Last Action Hero	John Practice	65
37	1993	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Professor Harlech	38
38	1993	Sweet Killing	Zargo	42
39	1994	Jamila	Older Seit	0
40	1994	L'Affaire	Lucien Haslans	30
41	1994	Surviving the Game	Wolfe Sr.	61
42	1994	Fresh	Chess Hustler	72
43	1994	Nostradamus	Scalinger	57
44	1995	Dillinger and Capone	Al Capone	54
45	1995	Mighty Aphrodite	Chorleiter	67
46	1996	Baby Face Nelson	Al Capone	67
47	1996	Looking for Richard	Self	68
48	1996	Children of the Revolution	Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin	56
49	1997	Eruption	President Mendoza	10
50	1997	Mimic	Dr. Gates	61
51	1997	Color of Justice	Jim Sullivan	55
52	1997	Einstein Revealed	Narrator	45
53	1997	Vacation in Hell	Belisario	60
54	1998	Waiting for Godot in San Quentin	Himself	0
55	1998	Star Trek: Insurrection	Ad'har Ru'afo	64
56	1999	The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy	Professor Henry Covington	42
57	1999	Esther	Mordechai	69
58	1999	Muppets from Space	Noah	60
59	1999	Excellent Cadavers	Tommaso Buscetta	60
60	2000	The Darkling	Bruno Rubin	48
61	2000	Finding Forrester	Robert Crawford	71
62	2000	Un dono semplice	主演	0
63	2001	Knights of the Quest	Delfinello da Coverzano	45
64	2001	Thir13en Ghosts	Cyrus Kriticos	62
65	2002	Joshua	Father Tardone	64
66	2002	The Making of 'Amadeus'	Self - Salieri	74
67	2002	Ticker	Airport Guru	66
68	2003	Five Moons Plaza	Entita	55
69	2003	Try to Remember: The Fantasticks	Self	67
70	2003	My Father	Paul Minsky	60
71	2004	Le nom de la rose : Le documentaire		100
72	2004	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Viceroy of Peru	51
73	2006	40 Years of Star Trek	Self	43
74	2006	Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers	Jeffrey	60
75	2006	The Stone Merchant	Shahid	44
76	2006	Quiet Flows The Don	Pantaley	38
77	2007	The Final Inquiry	Nathan	47
78	2007	Come le formiche	Ruggero	0
79	2007	Blood Monkey	Professor Hamilton	56
80	2007	Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America	Narrator	0
81	2007	The Beauty of Ugly	Narrator	0
82	2008	A House Divided	Grandfather Wahid	65
83	2008	Ballerina	Goran	0
84	2008	Shark Swarm	Professor Bill Girdler	54
85	2008	Carnera: The Walking Mountain	Leon See	60
86	2009	The Dragon Chronicles	Narrator	0
87	2009	Perestroika	Professor Gross	38
88	2009	Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…	Self	66
89	2009	Barbarossa	Siniscalco Barozzi	52
90	2010	In the Valley of the Wolves	Narrator	60
91	2010	Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air		0
92	2010	Nature Amazing Places Hawaii	Narrates Program One	0
93	2011	Is That Skunk?	Narrator	0
94	2012	Beauty and the Beast	Cyril	0
95	2012	The Unseen World	John Henry Newman	0
96	2012	The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683	Marco D'Aviano	43
97	2013	Dead Man Down	Gregor	62
98	2013	Love, Marilyn	Self	66
99	2013	The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die	Braque	40
100	2013	Inside Llewyn Davis	Bud Grossman	72
101	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
102	2014	Goltzius & the Pelican Company	The Margrave	61
103	2014	The Mystery of Dante	Dante Alter Ego	52
104	2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Mr. Moustafa	80
105	2014	Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'	Self	67
106	2014	A Little Game	Norman Wallach	65
107	2015	411	Information (voice)	0
108	2018	Isle of Dogs	Jupiter (voice)	79
109	2018	Every Act of Life	Self	70
110	2018	Super Cats	Narrator (voice)	0
111	2018	Robin Hood	Cardinal	59
112	2018	The Letter	Narrator	0
113	2019	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Grimmel (voice)	77
114	2019	Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail	Ayatollah (archive footage)	66
115	2019	Lady and the Tramp	Tony	72
116	2021	Things Heard & Seen	Floyd DeBeers	57
117	2022	Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight	Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)	71
118	2022	The Siege of Vienna		0
119	2022	The Magic Flute	Dr. Longbow	65
120	2023	Double Soul	Mentor	57
121	2024	Milarepa	Oyun	0
122	2024	Mother, Couch	Marcus / Marco	52
123		Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise	Herman Melville	0
124		Bookends	Saul Cohen	0
125		Dead Lawyers		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	All in the Family	Clerk	78
2	1973	Kojak	Solly Nurse	70
3	1973	Kojak	Eddie Gordon	70
4	1974	NOVA	Narrator	69
5	1977	The Andros Targets	Bobby Carr	50
6	1978	A.E.S. Hudson Street		72
7	1982	Nature	Narrator (voice)	81
8	1982	Marco Polo	Jacopo	68
9	1986	Dream West	President Abraham Lincoln	50
10	1988	American Experience	Narrator	75
11	1989	I promessi sposi	l'Innominato	64
12	1996	Dead Man's Walk	Caleb Cobb	61
13	1999	Noah's Ark	Lot	42
14	2000	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Ayatollah	80
15	2001	The Hire	Airport Guru	76
16	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Theodore Nichols	76
17	2006	Quiet Flows the Don	Pantaley	90
18	2007	L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII	Nathan	0
19	2009	The Good Wife	Burl Preston	76
20	2010	Blue Bloods	Leon Goodwin	78
21	2011	Homeland	Dar Adal	76
22	2012	Elementary	Daniel Gottlieb	76
23	2012	Beauty and the Beast	Cyril	74
24	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	58
25	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		65
26	2017	The Good Fight	Burl Preston	76
27	2017	Road to 9/11	Himself - Narrator	85
28	2017	The Orville	Chairman	76
29	2019	Chimerica	Frank Sams	57
30	2019	Okavango: River of Dreams	vypravěč	80
31	2020	Mythic Quest	C.W. Longbottom	73
32	2021	The White Lotus	Bert Di Grasso	76
33	2022	Moon Knight	Khonshu (voice)	77
34	2022	Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities	Dr. Carl Winters	76
35	2023	White House Plumbers	Judge John Sirica	62