F. Murray Abraham
Known for Acting · 171 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 (37)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Blue Bloods
2010
as Leon Goodwin
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Theodore Nichols
Homeland
2011
as Dar Adal
The Good Wife
2009
as Burl Preston
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
as Ayatollah
Elementary
2012
as Daniel Gottlieb
NOVA
1974
as Narrator
The White Lotus
2021
as Bert Di Grasso
The Good Fight
2017
as Burl Preston
American Experience
1988
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Orville
2017
as Chairman
Nature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
Kojak
1973
as Solly Nurse / Eddie Gordon
Moon Knight
2022
as Khonshu (voice)
Saving Grace
2007
as Matthew
Mythic Quest
2020
as C.W. Longbottom
Beauty and the Beast
2012
as Cyril
All in the Family
1971
as Clerk
Marvel Zombies
2025
as Khonshu (voice)
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022
as Dr. Carl Winters
Marco Polo
1982
as Jacopo
The Hire
2001
as Airport Guru
White House Plumbers
2023
as Judge John Sirica
The Andros Targets
1977
as Bobby Carr
Dead Man's Walk
1996
as Caleb Cobb
Chimerica
2019
as Frank Sams
Noah's Ark
1999
as Lot
I promessi sposi
1989
as l'Innominato
Quiet Flows the Don
2006
as Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
A.E.S. Hudson Street
1978
Dream West
1986
as President Abraham Lincoln
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
2007
as Nathan
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
2003
as Readings (Voice)
Okavango: River of Dreams
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Road to 9/11
2017
as Himself - Narrator
Movies (134)
Scarface
1983
as Omar
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
as Grimmel (voice)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Mr. Moustafa
Amadeus
1984
as Antonio Salieri
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Prophet
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Jupiter (voice)
Robin Hood
2018
as Cardinal
Thir13en Ghosts
2001
as Cyrus
The Name of the Rose
1986
as Bernardo Gui
Last Action Hero
1993
as John Practice
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
as Bud Grossman
Mimic
1997
as Dr. Gates
All the President's Men
1976
as Arresting Officer #1
Serpico
1973
as Detective Partner (uncredited)
Star Trek: Insurrection
1998
as Ad'har Ru'afo
The Darkling
2000
as Bruno Rubin
The Magic Flute
2022
as Dr. Longbow
Lady and the Tramp
2019
as Tony
Dead Man Down
2013
as Gregor
Finding Forrester
2000
as Robert Crawford
Fresh
1994
as Chess Hustler
Cadence
1990
as Capt. Ramon Garcia
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
Things Heard & Seen
2021
as Floyd DeBeers
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Harold Leacher
Mighty Aphrodite
1995
as Chorleiter
Mobsters
1991
as Arnold Rothstein
Dillinger and Capone
1995
as Al Capone
Ticker
2002
as Airport Guru
Joshua
2002
as Father Tardone
Money
1991
as Will Scarlet
Milarepa
2025
as Oyun
Muppets from Space
1999
as Noah
Bookends
2026
as Saul Cohen
Shark Swarm
2008
as Professor Bill Girdler
Esther
1999
as Mordechai
Mother, Couch
2024
as Marcus / Marco
Surviving the Game
1994
as Wolfe, Sr.
Sweet Killing
1993
as Zargo
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self
Dead Lawyers
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022
as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
An Innocent Man
1989
as Virgil Cane
Slipstream
1989
as Cornelius
Excellent Cadavers
1999
as Tommaso Buscetta
Einstein Revealed
1997
as Narrator
Nostradamus
1994
as Scalinger
Ballerina
2008
as Goran
The Sunshine Boys
1975
as Mechanic
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975
as Taxi Driver
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
2012
as Marco D'Aviano
The Big Fix
1978
as Eppis
Barbarossa
2009
as Siniscalco Barozzi
The Mystery of Dante
2014
as Dante Alter Ego
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014
as Self
The Final Inquiry
2007
as Nathan
Quiet Flows The Don
2006
as Pantaley
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1993
as Professor Harlech
Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
as Viceroy of Peru
The First Circle
1992
as Stalin
Madman
1978
as Marco Cohen
The Letter
2018
as Narrator
The Ritz
1976
as Chris
Blood Monkey
2007
as Professor Hamilton
Beyond the Stars
1989
as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
This Ordinary Thing
2025
as Self (voice)
Jamila
1994
as Older Seit
They Might Be Giants
1971
as Clyde (the usher)
40 Years of Star Trek
2006
as Self
Sex and the Married Woman
1977
as Duke Skaggs
Eruption
1997
as President Mendoza
Children of the Revolution
1996
as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Knights Of The Quest
2001
as Delfinello da Coverzano
The Third Solution
1988
as Father Carafa
Five Moons Plaza
2003
as Entita
Drums of Fire
1990
as Osrain
Il Trovatore
1988
as Self - Host
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2012
as The Margrave
L'Affaire
1994
as Lucien Haslans
Baby Face Nelson
1996
as Al Capone
A Little Game
2014
as Norman Wallach
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self
Vacation in Hell
1997
as Belisario
The Stone Merchant
2006
as Shahid
By the Sword
1991
as Suba
The Little Match Girl
1990
as Narrator (voice)
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
1999
as Professor Henry Covington
The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
as Self
Largo Desolato
1990
as Professor Leopold Nettles
Double Soul
2023
as Mentor
My Father
2003
as Paul Minsky
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019
as Ayatollah (archive footage)
Eye of the Widow
1991
as Kharoun
Color of Justice
1997
as Jim Sullivan
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Favorite
1989
as Abdul Hamid
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
2013
as Braque
La rosa dei nomi
1987
as Self
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
as Self
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
2008
as Leon See
Perestroika
2009
as Professor Gross
A Season of Giants
1990
as Papa Giulio II
The Making of 'Amadeus'
2002
as Self - Salieri
The Making of Slipstream
1989
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
2006
as Jeffrey
Out of This World
Noah's Ark
1999
as Lót
A House Divided
2008
as Grandfather Wahid
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
2003
as Self
The Unseen World
2012
as John Henry Newman
411
2015
as Information (voice)
Time Out
The Siege of Vienna
2022
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
1985
as Herman Melville
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
2004
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
1998
as Himself
In the Valley of the Wolves
2010
as Narrator
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
1988
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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 171 credits spanning from 1971 to 2026, F. Murray Abraham has appeared in 134 films and 37 TV shows.
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Most Popular F. Murray Abraham Movies
- Scarface (1983) — as Omar
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) — as Grimmel (voice)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) — as Mr. Moustafa
- Amadeus (1984) — as Antonio Salieri
- The Phoenician Scheme (2025) — as Prophet
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