F. Murray Abraham
116 movies · 35 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 24, 1939 (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.
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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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F. Murray Abraham: movies and TV shows
Acting (151)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Sharkland
as Narrator
- 2026 Bookends
as Saul Cohen
- 2025
- 2025 Milarepa
as Oyun
- 2025 The Phoenician Scheme
as Prophet
- 2024 Mother, Couch
as Marcus / Marco
- 2023 Double Soul
as Mentor
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022 The Magic Flute
as Dr. Longbow
- 2022
- 2022 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021 Things Heard & Seen
as Floyd DeBeers
- 2020
- 2019 Lady and the Tramp
as Tony
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019 Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
as Ayatollah (archive footage)
- 2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
as Grimmel (voice)
- 2018 The Letter
as Narrator
- 2018 Robin Hood
as Cardinal
- 2018 Super Cats
as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 Isle of Dogs
as Jupiter (voice)
- 2017
- 2017
- 2015 411
as Information (voice)
- 2014 A Little Game
as Norman Wallach
- 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Mr. Moustafa
- 2014 The Mystery of Dante
as Dante Alter Ego
- 2013 Inside Llewyn Davis
as Bud Grossman
- 2013 The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
as Braque
- 2013 Dead Man Down
as Gregor
- 2012 Goltzius & the Pelican Company
as The Margrave
- 2012 The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
as Marco D'Aviano
- 2012
- 2012
- 2012 The Unseen World
as John Henry Newman
- 2011
- 2011 Is That Skunk?
as Narrator
- 2010
- 2010 Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
as Narrates Program One
- 2010
- 2010 In the Valley of the Wolves
as Narrator
- 2009 Barbarossa
as Siniscalco Barozzi
- 2009
- 2009
- 2009 Perestroika
as Professor Gross
- 2009 The Dragon Chronicles
as Narrator
- 2008 Carnera: The Walking Mountain
as Leon See
- 2008 Shark Swarm
as Professor Bill Girdler
- 2008 Language of the Enemy
as Grandfather Wahid
- 2008 Ballerina
as Goran
- 2007 Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
as Narrator
- 2007 Blood Monkey
as Professor Hamilton
- 2007
- 2007 Come le formiche
as Ruggero
- 2007 The Final Inquiry
as Nathan
- 2007
- 2006 Quiet Flows The Don
as Pantaley
- 2006
- 2006 The Stone Merchant
as Shahid
- 2006
- 2004 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Viceroy of Peru
- 2004
- 2003 My Father
as Paul Minsky
- 2003
- 2003 Five Moons Plaza
as Entita
- 2002 Ticker
as Airport Guru
- 2002 Joshua
as Father Tardone
- 2001 Thir13en Ghosts
as Cyrus
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001 Knights of the Quest
as Delfinello da Coverzano
- 2000 Un dono semplice
as Thomas Barlow
- 2000 Finding Forrester
as Robert Crawford
- 2000
- 2000 The Darkling
as Bruno Rubin
- 1999 Excellent Cadavers
as Tommaso Buscetta
- 1999 Muppets from Space
as Noah
- 1999
- 1999 Esther
as Mordechai
- 1999 The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
as Professor Henry Covington
- 1998 Star Trek: Insurrection
as Ad'har Ru'afo
- 1997 Vacation in Hell
as Belisario
- 1997 Einstein Revealed
as Narrator
- 1997 Color of Justice
as Jim Sullivan
- 1997 Mimic
as Dr. Gates
- 1997 Eruption
as President Mendoza
- 1996 Children of the Revolution
as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
- 1996 Puma: Lion of the Andes
as Narrator (voice)
- 1996
- 1996 Baby Face Nelson
as Al Capone
- 1995 Mighty Aphrodite
as Chorleiter
- 1995 Dillinger and Capone
as Al Capone
- 1994 Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
as Goldstein
- 1994 Nostradamus
as Scalinger
- 1994 Fresh
as Chess Hustler
- 1994 Surviving the Game
as Wolfe, Sr.
- 1994 L'Affaire
as Lucien Haslans
- 1994 Jamila
as Older Seit
- 1993 Sweet Killing
as Zargo
- 1993 Journey to the Center of the Earth
as Professor Harlech
- 1993 Last Action Hero
as John Practice
- 1993 National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as Harold Leacher
- 1992 Through an Open Window
as Narrator
- 1992 The First Circle
as Stalin
- 1991 Eye of the Widow
as Kharoun
- 1991 By the Sword
as Suba
- 1991 Mobsters
as Arnold Rothstein
- 1991 Money
as Will Scarlet
- 1990 The Bonfire of the Vanities
as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
- 1990 Drums of Fire
as Osrain
- 1990 The Little Match Girl
as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 Cadence
as Capt. Ramon Garcia
- 1990 A Season of Giants
as Papa Giulio II
- 1990
- 1990 Performance Pieces
as Jack Narwhal
- 1990 Largo Desolato
as Professor Leopold Nettles
- 1989
- 1989
- 1989 An Innocent Man
as Virgil Cane
- 1989 The Favorite
as Abdul Hamid
- 1989 Slipstream
as Cornelius
- 1989 Beyond the Stars
as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
- 1988 The Third Solution
as Father Carafa
- 1986 The Name of the Rose
as Bernardo Gui
- 1986
- 1985 Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
as Herman Melville
- 1984 Amadeus
as Antonio Salieri
- 1983 Scarface
as Omar
- 1982
- 1982
- 1978 The Big Fix
as Eppis
- 1978
- 1978 Madman
as Marco Cohen
- 1977 Sex and the Married Woman
as Duke Skaggs
- 1977
- 1976 The Ritz
as Chris
- 1976 All the President's Men
as Arresting Officer #1
- 1975 The Sunshine Boys
as Mechanic
- 1975 The Prisoner of Second Avenue
as Taxi Driver
- 1974
- 1973 Serpico
as Detective Partner (uncredited)
- 1973
- 1971 They Might Be Giants
as Clyde (the usher)
- 1971
Talk shows and appearances (22)
- 2025
- 2025
- 2022
- 2018
- 2017 Road to 9/11
3 episodes
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2014
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2013
- 2009
- 2007
- 2006
- 2003
- 2002
- 2000
- 1998
- 1996
- 1988
- 1988
- 1988 American Experience
1 episode
- 1987
- 1986