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