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