F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham

Birthdate
October 24, 1939 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
October 24, 1939 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Acting

Biography

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.

F. Murray Abraham's LGBTQ+ Titles

The Ritz
The Ritz
Chris
Every Act of Life
Every Act of Life
Self

Acting (154)

2024
Mother, Couch as Marcus / Marco
2024
Milarepa as Oyun
2023
Double Soul as Mentor
2023
White House Plumbers as Judge John Sirica (2 episodes)
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities as Dr. Carl Winters (1 episode)
2022
The Magic Flute as Dr. Longbow
2022
The Siege of Vienna
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice) (6 episodes)
2021
The White Lotus as Bert Di Grasso (7 episodes)
2021
Things Heard & Seen as Floyd DeBeers
2020
Mythic Quest as C.W. Longbottom (20 episodes)
2019
Lady and the Tramp as Tony
2019
Okavango: River of Dreams as vypravěč (4 episodes)
2019
Chimerica as Frank Sams (4 episodes)
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
2018
Isle of Dogs as Jupiter (voice)
2017
The Orville as Chairman (1 episode)
2017
Road to 9/11 as Himself - Narrator (3 episodes)
2017
The Good Fight as Burl Preston (1 episode)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1 episode)
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 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
Beauty and the Beast as Cyril (13 episodes)
2012
Day of the Siege as Marco D'Aviano
2012
Elementary as Daniel Gottlieb (1 episode)
2012
The Unseen World as John Henry Newman
2011
Homeland as Dar Adal (37 episodes)
2011
Is That Skunk? as Narrator
2010
Blue Bloods as Leon Goodwin (1 episode)
2010
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii as Narrates Program One
2010
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
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 (4 episodes)
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 (2 episodes)
2006
Quiet Flows The Don as Pantaley
2006
Quiet Flows the Don as Pantaley (7 episodes)
2006
The Stone Merchant as Shahid
2006
40 Years of Star Trek as Self
2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Viceroy of Peru
2004
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers as Jeffrey
2004
Le nom de la rose : Le documentaire
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 (1 episode)
2001
The Hire as Airport Guru (1 episode)
2001
Knights of the Quest as Delfinello da Coverzano
2000
Finding Forrester as Robert Crawford
2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm as Ayatollah (1 episode)
2000
The Darkling as Bruno Rubin
1999
Excellent Cadavers as Tommaso Buscetta
1999
Muppets from Space as Noah
1999
Noah's Ark as Lot (2 episodes)
1999
Esther as Mordechai
1999
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy as Prof. 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 (3 episodes)
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 (5 episodes)
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 Narrator (1 episode)
1988
The Great San Francisco Earthquake as Self - Narrator (voice)
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 (3 episodes)
1984
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier as Goldstein
1984
Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
1983
Scarface as Omar
1982
Marco Polo as Jacopo (8 episodes)
1982
Nature as Narrator (voice) (25 episodes)
1978
The Big Fix as Eppis
1978
A.E.S. Hudson Street (6 episodes)
1978
Madman as Marco Cohen
1977
Sex and the Married Woman as Duke Skaggs
1977
The Andros Targets as Bobby Carr (1 episode)
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 (1 episode)
1973
Serpico as Detective Partner (uncredited)
1973
Kojak as Eddie Gordon (1 episode)
1973
Kojak as Solly Nurse (2 episodes)
1971
They Might Be Giants as Clyde (the usher)
1971
All in the Family as Clerk (1 episode)