
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
This Ordinary Thing as Voice
2025Marvel Zombies as Khonshu (voice)
2025Milarepa as Oyun
2025The Phoenician Scheme as Prophet
2024Mother, Couch as Marcus / Marco
2023Double Soul as Mentor
2023White House Plumbers as Judge John Sirica
2022Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities as Dr. Carl Winters
2022The Magic Flute as Dr. Longbow
2022The Siege of Vienna
2022Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022Moon Knight as Khonshu (voice)
2021The White Lotus as Bert Di Grasso
2021Things Heard & Seen as Floyd DeBeers
2020Mythic Quest as C.W. Longbottom
2019Lady and the Tramp as Tony
2019Okavango: River of Dreams as Narrator (voice)
2019Chimerica as Frank Sams
2019Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail as Ayatollah (archive footage)
2019How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World as Grimmel (voice)
2018The Letter as Narrator
2018Robin Hood as Cardinal
2018Super Cats as Narrator (voice)
2018Every Act of Life as Self
2018Isle of Dogs as Jupiter (voice)
2017The Orville as Chairman
2017Road to 9/11 as Himself - Narrator
2017The Good Fight as Burl Preston
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015411 as Information (voice)
2014A Little Game as Norman Wallach
2014Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as Self
2014The Grand Budapest Hotel as Mr. Moustafa
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2014The Mystery of Dante as Dante Alter Ego
2014Goltzius & the Pelican Company as The Margrave
2013Inside Llewyn Davis as Bud Grossman
2013The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die as Braque
2013Love, Marilyn as Self
2013Dead Man Down as Gregor
2012Beauty and the Beast as Cyril
2012The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 as Marco D'Aviano
2012Elementary as Daniel Gottlieb
2012The Unseen World as John Henry Newman
2012Beauty and the Beast as Cyril
2011Homeland as Dar Adal
2011Is That Skunk? as Narrator
2010Blue Bloods as Leon Goodwin
2010Nature Amazing Places Hawaii as Narrates Program One
2010Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
2010In the Valley of the Wolves as Narrator
2009Barbarossa as Siniscalco Barozzi
2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
2009The Good Wife as Burl Preston
2009Perestroika as Professor Gross
2009The Dragon Chronicles as Narrator
2008Carnera: The Walking Mountain as Leon See
2008Shark Swarm as Professor Bill Girdler
2008A House Divided as Grandfather Wahid
2008Ballerina as Goran
2007The Beauty of Ugly as Self - Narrator (voice)
2007Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America as Narrator
2007Blood Monkey as Professor Hamilton
2007Saving Grace as Matthew
2007Come le formiche as Ruggero
2007The Final Inquiry as Nathan
2007L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII as Nathan
2006Quiet Flows The Don as Pantaley
2006Quiet Flows the Don as Pantaley
2006The Stone Merchant as Shahid
2006Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers as Jeffrey
200640 Years of Star Trek as Self
2004The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Viceroy of Peru
2004Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
2003My Father as Paul Minsky
2003Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites as Readings (Voice)
2003Try to Remember: The Fantasticks as Self
2003Five Moons Plaza as Entita
2002Ticker as Airport Guru
2002The Making of 'Amadeus' as Self - Salieri
2002Joshua as Father Tardone
2001Thir13en Ghosts as Cyrus
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Theodore Nichols
2001The Hire as Airport Guru
2001Knights Of The Quest as Delfinello da Coverzano
2000Un dono semplice as 主演
2000Finding Forrester as Robert Crawford
2000Curb Your Enthusiasm as Ayatollah
2000The Darkling as Bruno Rubin
2000The Directors: Milos Forman as Self
1999Excellent Cadavers as Tommaso Buscetta
1999Muppets from Space as Noah
1999Noah's Ark as Lot
1999Esther as Mordechai
1999The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy as Professor Henry Covington
1998Star Trek: Insurrection as Ad'har Ru'afo
1998Waiting for Godot in San Quentin as Himself
1997Vacation in Hell as Belisario
1997Einstein Revealed as Narrator
1997Color of Justice as Jim Sullivan
1997Mimic as Dr. Gates
1997Eruption as President Mendoza
1996Children of the Revolution as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
1996Looking for Richard as Self
1996Dead Man's Walk as Caleb Cobb
1996Baby Face Nelson as Al Capone
1995Mighty Aphrodite as Chorleiter
1995Dillinger and Capone as Al Capone
1994Nostradamus as Scalinger
1994Fresh as Chess Hustler
1994Surviving the Game as Wolfe, Sr.
1994L'Affaire as Lucien Haslans
1994Jamila as Older Seit
1993Sweet Killing as Zargo
1993Journey to the Center of the Earth as Professor Harlech
1993Last Action Hero as John Practice
1993National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as Harold Leacher
1992Through an Open Window as Narrator
1992The First Circle as Stalin
1991Eye of the Widow as Kharoun
1991By the Sword as Suba
1991Mobsters as Arnold Rothstein
1991Money as Will Scarlet
1990The Bonfire of the Vanities as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
1990Drums of Fire as Osrain
1990The Little Match Girl as Narrator (voice)
1990Cadence as Capt. Ramon Garcia
1990A Season of Giants as Papa Giulio II
1990Performance Pieces as Jack Narwhal
1990Largo Desolato as Professor Leopold Nettles
1989I promessi sposi as l'Innominato
1989The Making of Slipstream
1989An Innocent Man as Virgil Cane
1989The Favorite as Abdul Hamid
1989Slipstream as Cornelius
1989Beyond the Stars as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
1988Il Trovatore as Self - Host
1988American Experience as Self - Narrator (voice)
1988The Great San Francisco Earthquake as Self - Narrator (voice)
1988The Third Solution as Father Carafa
1987La rosa dei nomi as Self
1986The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' as Self
1986The Name of the Rose as Bernardo Gui
1986Dream West as President Abraham Lincoln
1985Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise as Herman Melville
1984Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier as Goldstein
1984Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
1983Scarface as Omar
1982Marco Polo as Jacopo
1982Nature as Narrator (voice)
1978The Big Fix as Eppis
1978A.E.S. Hudson Street
1978Madman as Marco Cohen
1977Sex and the Married Woman as Duke Skaggs
1977The Andros Targets as Bobby Carr
1976The Ritz as Chris
1976All the President's Men as Arresting Officer #1
1975The Sunshine Boys as Mechanic
1975The Prisoner of Second Avenue as Taxi Driver
1974NOVA as Narrator
1973Serpico as Detective Partner (uncredited)
1973Kojak as Solly Nurse
1973Kojak as Eddie Gordon
1971They Might Be Giants as Clyde (the usher)
1971All in the Family as Clerk
—Out of This World
—Dead Lawyers
—Bookends as Saul Cohen









