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F. Murray Abraham
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article F. Murray Abraham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 24, 1939
Age
86 years old
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Popularity Score
4.2
Filmography
Bookends
Saul Cohen
2026Movie
Milarepa
Oyun
2025Movie
The Phoenician Scheme
Prophet
2025Movie
This Ordinary Thing
Self (voice)
2025Movie
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
Himself
2025Movie
Marvel Zombies
Khonshu (voice)
2025TV
Mother, Couch
Marcus / Marco
2024Movie
Double Soul
Mentor
2023Movie
White House Plumbers
Judge John Sirica
2023TV
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022Movie
The Siege of Vienna
2022Movie
The Magic Flute
Dr. Longbow
2022Movie
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
2022Movie
Moon Knight
Khonshu (voice)
2022TV
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Dr. Carl Winters
2022TV
Things Heard & Seen
Floyd DeBeers
2021Movie
The White Lotus
Bert Di Grasso
2021TV
Mythic Quest
C.W. Longbottom
2020TV
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Grimmel (voice)
2019Movie
Lady and the Tramp
Tony
2019Movie
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Ayatollah (archive footage)
2019Movie
Chimerica
Frank Sams
2019TV
Okavango: River of Dreams
Narrator (voice)
2019TV
The Letter
Narrator
2018Movie
Super Cats
Narrator (voice)
2018Movie
Isle of Dogs
Jupiter (voice)
2018Movie
Every Act of Life
Self
2018Movie
Robin Hood
Cardinal
2018Movie
The Good Fight
Burl Preston
2017TV
Road to 9/11
Himself - Narrator
2017TV
The Orville
Chairman
2017TV
411
Information (voice)
2015Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Moustafa
2014Movie
The Mystery of Dante
Dante Alter Ego
2014Movie
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
2014Movie
A Little Game
Norman Wallach
2014Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014TV
Inside Llewyn Davis
Bud Grossman
2013Movie
Dead Man Down
Gregor
2013Movie
Love, Marilyn
Self
2013Movie
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
Braque
2013Movie
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
The Margrave
2012Movie
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
Marco D'Aviano
2012Movie
The Unseen World
John Henry Newman
2012Movie
Elementary
Daniel Gottlieb
2012TV
Beauty and the Beast
Cyril
2012TV
Is That Skunk?
Narrator
2011Movie
Homeland
Dar Adal
2011TV
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
Narrates Program One
2010Movie
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
2010Movie
In the Valley of the Wolves
Narrator
2010Movie
Blue Bloods
Leon Goodwin
2010TV
Perestroika
Professor Gross
2009Movie
Barbarossa
Siniscalco Barozzi
2009Movie
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
2009Movie
The Dragon Chronicles
Narrator
2009Movie
The Good Wife
Burl Preston
2009TV
Bored to Death
Professor Richard Hawkes
2009TV
Language of the Enemy
Grandfather Wahid
2008Movie
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
Leon See
2008Movie
Shark Swarm
Professor Bill Girdler
2008Movie
Ballerina
Goran
2008Movie
Blood Monkey
Professor Hamilton
2007Movie
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
Narrator
2007Movie
The Final Inquiry
Nathan
2007Movie
Come le formiche
Ruggero
2007Movie
The Beauty of Ugly
Self - Narrator (voice)
2007Movie
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Nathan
2007TV
Saving Grace
Matthew
2007TV
The Stone Merchant
Shahid
2006Movie
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
Jeffrey
2006Movie
Quiet Flows The Don
Pantaley
2006Movie
40 Years of Star Trek
Self
2006Movie
Quiet Flows the Don
Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
2006TV
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Viceroy of Peru
2004Movie
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
2004Movie
Five Moons Plaza
Entita
2003Movie
My Father
Paul Minsky
2003Movie
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Self
2003Movie
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Readings (Voice)
2003TV
Joshua
Father Tardone
2002Movie
Ticker
Airport Guru
2002Movie
The Making of 'Amadeus'
Self - Salieri
2002Movie
Knights of the Quest
Delfinello da Coverzano
2001Movie
Thir13en Ghosts
Cyrus
2001Movie
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Theodore Nichols
2001TV
The Hire
Airport Guru
2001TV
Finding Forrester
Robert Crawford
2000Movie
The Darkling
Bruno Rubin
2000Movie
Un dono semplice
Thomas Barlow
2000Movie
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
2000Movie
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Ayatollah
2000TV
Esther
Mordechai
1999Movie
Excellent Cadavers
Tommaso Buscetta
1999Movie
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
Professor Henry Covington
1999Movie
Muppets from Space
Noah
1999Movie
Noah's Ark
Lot
1999TV
Star Trek: Insurrection
Ad'har Ru'afo
1998Movie
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Himself
1998Movie
Mimic
Dr. Gates
1997Movie
Einstein Revealed
Narrator
1997Movie
Eruption
President Mendoza
1997Movie
Color of Justice
Jim Sullivan
1997Movie
Vacation in Hell
Belisario
1997Movie
Children of the Revolution
Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
1996Movie
Baby Face Nelson
Al Capone
1996Movie
Looking for Richard
Self
1996Movie
Puma: Lion of the Andes
Narrator (voice)
1996Movie
Dead Man's Walk
Caleb Cobb
1996TV
Mighty Aphrodite
Chorleiter
1995Movie
Dillinger and Capone
Al Capone
1995Movie
Surviving the Game
Wolfe, Sr.
1994Movie
Nostradamus
Scalinger
1994Movie
L'Affaire
Lucien Haslans
1994Movie
Fresh
Chess Hustler
1994Movie
Jamila
Older Seit
1994Movie
Last Action Hero
John Practice
1993Movie
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Harold Leacher
1993Movie
Sweet Killing
Zargo
1993Movie
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Professor Harlech
1993Movie
Through an Open Window
Narrator
1992Movie
The First Circle
Stalin
1992Movie
By the Sword
Suba
1991Movie
Money
Will Scarlet
1991Movie
Mobsters
Arnold Rothstein
1991Movie
Eye of the Widow
Kharoun
1991Movie
The Bonfire of the Vanities
D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
1990Movie
The Little Match Girl
Narrator (voice)
1990Movie
Largo Desolato
Professor Leopold Nettles
1990Movie
A Season of Giants
Papa Giulio II
1990Movie
Cadence
Capt. Ramon Garcia
1990Movie
Drums of Fire
Osrain
1990Movie
Performance Pieces
Jack Narwhal
1990Movie
Slipstream
Cornelius
1989Movie
An Innocent Man
Virgil Cane
1989Movie
The Favorite
Abdul Hamid
1989Movie
Beyond the Stars
Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
1989Movie
The Making of Slipstream
1989Movie
I promessi sposi
l'Innominato
1989TV
The Third Solution
Father Carafa
1988Movie
Il Trovatore
Self - Host
1988Movie
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Self - Narrator (voice)
1988Movie
American Experience
Self - Narrator (voice)
1988TV
La rosa dei nomi
Self
1987Movie
The Name of the Rose
Bernardo Gui
1986Movie
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Self
1986Movie
Dream West
President Abraham Lincoln
1986TV
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Herman Melville
1985Movie
Amadeus
Antonio Salieri
1984Movie
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Goldstein
1984Movie
Scarface
Omar
1983Movie
Nature
Narrator (voice)
1982TV
Marco Polo
Jacopo
1982TV
The Big Fix
Eppis
1978Movie
Madman
Marco Cohen
1978Movie
A.E.S. Hudson Street
1978TV
Sex and the Married Woman
Duke Skaggs
1977Movie
The Andros Targets
Bobby Carr
1977TV
The Ritz
Chris
1976Movie
All the President's Men
Arresting Officer #1
1976Movie
The Sunshine Boys
Mechanic
1975Movie
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Taxi Driver
1975Movie
NOVA
Narrator
1974TV
Serpico
Detective Partner (uncredited)
1973Movie
Kojak
Solly Nurse
1973TV
They Might Be Giants
Clyde (the usher)
1971Movie
All in the Family
Clerk
1971TV
Dead Lawyers
—Movie
Out of This World
—Movie
Time Out
—Movie
Sharkland
Narrator
—Movie