F. Murray Abraham
Known for Acting · 173 credits
- Born
- 1939-10-24 (age 86)
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Also known as
- Frank Murray Abraham · Murray Abraham
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (38)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
Homeland
2011
as Dar Adal
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Theodore Nichols
NOVA
1974
as Narrator
Blue Bloods
2010
as Leon Goodwin
The Good Wife
2009
as Burl Preston
The White Lotus
2021
as Bert Di Grasso
The Good Fight
2017
as Burl Preston
Elementary
2012
as Daniel Gottlieb
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
as Ayatollah
Nature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
American Experience
1988
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Orville
2017
as Chairman
Moon Knight
2022
as Khonshu (voice)
Kojak
1973
as Solly Nurse / Eddie Gordon
Beauty and the Beast
2012
as Cyril
All in the Family
1971
as Clerk
Saving Grace
2007
as Matthew
Marvel Zombies
2025
as Khonshu (voice)
Mythic Quest
2020
as C.W. Longbottom
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022
as Dr. Carl Winters
Bored to Death
2009
as Professor Richard Hawkes
White House Plumbers
2023
as Judge John Sirica
I promessi sposi
1989
as l'Innominato
The Hire
2001
as Airport Guru
Quiet Flows the Don
2006
as Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
Marco Polo
1982
as Jacopo
Chimerica
2019
as Frank Sams
The Andros Targets
1977
as Bobby Carr
Dead Man's Walk
1996
as Caleb Cobb
Noah's Ark
1999
as Lot
Okavango: River of Dreams
2019
as Narrator (voice)
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
2007
as Nathan
Road to 9/11
2017
as Himself - Narrator
Dream West
1986
as President Abraham Lincoln
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
2003
as Readings (Voice)
A.E.S. Hudson Street
1978
Movies (135)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Mr. Moustafa
Scarface
1983
as Omar
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
as Grimmel (voice)
All the President's Men
1976
as Arresting Officer #1
Robin Hood
2018
as Cardinal
Dead Man Down
2013
as Gregor
Amadeus
1984
as Antonio Salieri
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
as Bud Grossman
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Prophet
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Jupiter (voice)
The Name of the Rose
1986
as Bernardo Gui
Eruption
1997
as President Mendoza
Thir13en Ghosts
2001
as Cyrus
Star Trek: Insurrection
1998
as Ad'har Ru'afo
L'Affaire
1994
as Lucien Haslans
Sweet Killing
1993
as Zargo
Mimic
1997
as Dr. Gates
Last Action Hero
1993
as John Practice
Things Heard & Seen
2021
as Floyd DeBeers
Serpico
1973
as Detective Partner (uncredited)
Il Trovatore
1988
as Self - Host
Lady and the Tramp
2019
as Tony
The Magic Flute
2022
as Dr. Longbow
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2012
as The Margrave
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self
Finding Forrester
2000
as Robert Crawford
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014
as Self
Muppets from Space
1999
as Noah
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Harold Leacher
Dillinger and Capone
1995
as Al Capone
Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
Fresh
1994
as Chess Hustler
Baby Face Nelson
1996
as Al Capone
Mighty Aphrodite
1995
as Chorleiter
The Mystery of Dante
2014
as Dante Alter Ego
Time Out
Einstein Revealed
1997
as Narrator
Shark Swarm
2008
as Professor Bill Girdler
The Making of 'Amadeus'
2002
as Self - Salieri
Mother, Couch
2024
as Marcus / Marco
Beyond the Stars
1989
as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
2012
as Marco D'Aviano
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1993
as Professor Harlech
Quiet Flows The Don
2006
as Pantaley
Surviving the Game
1994
as Wolfe, Sr.
Mobsters
1991
as Arnold Rothstein
They Might Be Giants
1971
as Clyde (the usher)
The Ritz
1976
as Chris
A Season of Giants
1990
as Papa Giulio II
An Innocent Man
1989
as Virgil Cane
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
1985
as Herman Melville
Vacation in Hell
1997
as Belisario
This Ordinary Thing
2025
as Self (voice)
Sharkland
as Narrator
40 Years of Star Trek
2006
as Self
Out of This World
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
2007
as Narrator
Knights Of The Quest
2001
as Delfinello da Coverzano
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
as Self
411
2015
as Information (voice)
The Dragon Chronicles
2009
as Narrator
The Favorite
1989
as Abdul Hamid
Eye of the Widow
1991
as Kharoun
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Letter
2018
as Narrator
Cadence
1990
as Capt. Ramon Garcia
Bookends
2026
as Saul Cohen
Puma: Lion of the Andes
1996
as Narrator (voice)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975
as Taxi Driver
Children of the Revolution
1996
as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Esther
1999
as Mordechai
Ballerina
2008
as Goran
Dead Lawyers
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self
The Siege of Vienna
2022
The Little Match Girl
1990
as Narrator (voice)
The Big Fix
1978
as Eppis
Slipstream
1989
as Cornelius
The Stone Merchant
2006
as Shahid
Blood Monkey
2007
as Professor Hamilton
The Sunshine Boys
1975
as Mechanic
By the Sword
1991
as Suba
Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
Excellent Cadavers
1999
as Tommaso Buscetta
The Final Inquiry
2007
as Nathan
Sex and the Married Woman
1977
as Duke Skaggs
Five Moons Plaza
2003
as Entita
La rosa dei nomi
1987
as Self
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
2025
as Himself
Largo Desolato
1990
as Professor Leopold Nettles
The Unseen World
2012
as John Henry Newman
Barbarossa
2009
as Siniscalco Barozzi
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
as Self
Come le formiche
2007
as Ruggero
Super Cats
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Milarepa
2025
as Oyun
Money
1991
as Will Scarlet
Is That Skunk?
2011
as Narrator
A Little Game
2014
as Norman Wallach
Noah's Ark
1999
as Lót
Joshua
2002
as Father Tardone
The Darkling
2000
as Bruno Rubin
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
2006
as Jeffrey
The Making of Slipstream
1989
Performance Pieces
1990
as Jack Narwhal
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
as Viceroy of Peru
My Father
2003
as Paul Minsky
Through an Open Window
1992
as Narrator
The First Circle
1992
as Stalin
In the Valley of the Wolves
2010
as Narrator
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
2008
as Leon See
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022
as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019
as Ayatollah (archive footage)
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
2003
as Self
Color of Justice
1997
as Jim Sullivan
Nostradamus
1994
as Scalinger
Ticker
2002
as Airport Guru
Double Soul
2023
as Mentor
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
2013
as Braque
About 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 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… With 173 credits spanning from 1971 to 2026, F. Murray Abraham has appeared in 135 films and 38 TV shows.
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- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) — as Mr. Moustafa
- Scarface (1983) — as Omar
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) — as Grimmel (voice)
- All the President's Men (1976) — as Arresting Officer #1
- Robin Hood (2018) — as Cardinal
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