F. Murray Abraham
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1939-10-24 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
F. 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 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
Bookends
as Saul Cohen
(2025)
The Phoenician Scheme
as Prophet
(2025)
Milarepa
as Oyun
(2024)
Mother, Couch
as Marcus / Marco
(2023)
Double Soul
as Mentor
(2022)
The Magic Flute
as Dr. Longbow
(2022)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2022)
(2021)
Things Heard & Seen
as Floyd DeBeers
(2020)
Okavango: River of Dreams - Director's Cut
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
as Grimmel (voice)
(2019)
Lady and the Tramp
as Tony
(2019)
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
as Ayatollah (archive footage)
(2018)
Robin Hood
as Cardinal
(2018)
Isle of Dogs
as Jupiter (voice)
(2018)
Every Act of Life
as Self
(2018)
The Letter
as Narrator
(2018)
Super Cats
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
411
as Information (voice)
(2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Mr. Moustafa
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
A Little Game
as Norman Wallach
(2014)
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
as The Margrave
(2014)
The Mystery of Dante
as Dante Alter Ego
(2014)
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self
(2013)
Dead Man Down
as Gregor
(2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Bud Grossman
(2013)
Love, Marilyn
as Self
(2013)
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
as Braque
(2012)
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
as Marco D'Aviano
(2012)
Beauty and the Beast
as Cyril
(2012)
The Unseen World
as John Henry Newman
(2011)
Is That Skunk?
as Narrator
(2010)
In the Valley of the Wolves
as Narrator
(2010)
(2010)
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
as Narrates Program One
(2009)
Barbarossa
as Siniscalco Barozzi
(2009)
(2009)
Perestroika
as Professor Gross
(2009)
The Dragon Chronicles
as Narrator
(2008)
Shark Swarm
as Professor Bill Girdler
(2008)
Ballerina
as Goran
(2008)
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
as Leon See
(2008)
A House Divided
as Grandfather Wahid
(2007)
Blood Monkey
as Professor Hamilton
(2007)
The Final Inquiry
as Nathan
(2007)
Come le formiche
as Ruggero
(2007)
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
as Narrator
(2007)
The Beauty of Ugly
as Narrator
(2006)
Quiet Flows The Don
as Pantaley
(2006)
40 Years of Star Trek
as Self
(2006)
The Stone Merchant
as Shahid
(2006)
(2004)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Viceroy of Peru
(2004)
(2003)
Five Moons Plaza
as Entita
(2003)
My Father
as Paul Minsky
(2003)
(2002)
Ticker
as Airport Guru
(2002)
Joshua
as Father Tardone
(2002)
The Making of 'Amadeus'
as Self - Salieri
(2001)
Thir13en Ghosts
as Cyrus Kriticos
(2001)
Knights of the Quest
as Delfinello da Coverzano
(2000)
Finding Forrester
as Robert Crawford
(2000)
The Darkling
as Bruno Rubin
(2000)
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
(2000)
Un dono semplice
as 主演
(1999)
Muppets from Space
as Noah
(1999)
Esther
as Mordechai
(1999)
Excellent Cadavers
as Tommaso Buscetta
(1999)
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
as Professor Henry Covington
(1998)
Star Trek: Insurrection
as Ad'har Ru'afo
(1998)
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
as Himself
(1997)
Mimic
as Dr. Gates
(1997)
Color of Justice
as Jim Sullivan
(1997)
Eruption
as President Mendoza
(1997)
Einstein Revealed
as Narrator
(1997)
Vacation in Hell
as Belisario
(1996)
Looking for Richard
as Self
(1996)
Children of the Revolution
as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
(1996)
Baby Face Nelson
as Al Capone
(1995)
Mighty Aphrodite
as Chorleiter
(1995)
Dillinger and Capone
as Al Capone
(1994)
Fresh
as Chess Hustler
(1994)
Nostradamus
as Scalinger
(1994)
Surviving the Game
as Wolfe Sr.
(1994)
L'Affaire
as Lucien Haslans
(1994)
Jamila
as Older Seit
(1993)
Last Action Hero
as John Practice
(1993)
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as Harold Leacher
(1993)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
as Professor Harlech
(1993)
Sweet Killing
as Zargo
(1992)
The First Circle
as Stalin
(1992)
Through an Open Window
as Narrator
(1991)
Mobsters
as Arnold Rothstein
(1991)
By the Sword
as Suba
(1991)
Eye of the Widow
as Kharoun
(1991)
Money
as Will Scarlet
(1990)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
(1990)
Cadence
as Capt. Ramon Garcia
(1990)
A Season of Giants
as Papa Giulio II
(1990)
Drums of Fire
as Osrain
(1990)
Largo Desolato
as Professor Leopold Nettles
(1990)
The Little Match Girl
as Narrator (voice)
(1989)
An Innocent Man
as Virgil Cane
(1989)
Slipstream
as Cornelius
(1989)
Beyond the Stars
as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
(1989)
The Favorite
as Abdul Hamid
(1989)
(1988)
Il Trovatore
as Self - Host
(1988)
The Third Solution
as Father Carafa
(1988)
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1987)
La rosa dei nomi
as Self
(1986)
The Name of the Rose
as Bernardo Gui
(1986)
(1985)
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
as Herman Melville
(1984)
Amadeus
as Antonio Salieri
(1984)
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
as Goldstein
(1983)
Scarface
as Omar
(1978)
The Big Fix
as Eppis
(1978)
Madman
as Marco Cohen
(1977)
Sex and the Married Woman
as Duke Skaggs
(1976)
All the President's Men
as Arresting Officer #1
(1976)
The Ritz
as Chris
(1975)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
as Taxi Driver
(1975)
The Sunshine Boys
as Mechanic
(1973)
Serpico
as Detective Partner (uncredited)
(1971)
They Might Be Giants
as Clyde (the usher)