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F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham

Acting1939Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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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Acting History

2026
Bookends
as Saul Cohen
2025
Milarepa
as Oyun
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
Marvel Zombies
TVas Khonshu (voice)1 eps
2024
Mother, Couch
as Marcus / Marco
2023
Double Soul
as Mentor
White House Plumbers
TVas Judge John Sirica2 eps
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Magic Flute
as Dr. Longbow
Moon Knight
TVas Khonshu (voice)6 eps
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
TVas Dr. Carl Winters1 eps
The White Lotus
TVas Bert Di Grasso7 eps
2021
Things Heard & Seen
as Floyd DeBeers
2020
Mythic Quest
TVas C.W. Longbottom20 eps
2019
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
as Ayatollah (archive footage)
The Orville
TVas Chairman1 eps
Chimerica
TVas Frank Sams
Okavango: River of Dreams
TVas Narrator (voice)
2018
Robin Hood
as Cardinal
Isle of Dogs
as Jupiter (voice)
Super Cats
as Narrator (voice)
The Letter
as Narrator
The Good Fight
TVas Burl Preston1 eps
2017
Road to 9/11
TVas Himself - Narrator
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TVas Ayatollah1 eps
2016
Beauty and the Beast
TVas Cyril13 eps
2015
2013
Dead Man Down
as Gregor
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Bud Grossman
Elementary
TVas Daniel Gottlieb1 eps
2012
The Unseen World
as John Henry Newman
Homeland
TVas Dar Adal43 eps
Blue Bloods
TVas Leon Goodwin1 eps
2011
Is That Skunk?
as Narrator
The Good Wife
TVas Burl Preston4 eps
2009
Barbarossa
as Siniscalco Barozzi
Perestroika
as Professor Gross
Saving Grace
TVas Matthew1 eps
2008
Shark Swarm
as Professor Bill Girdler
A House Divided
as Grandfather Wahid
Ballerina
as Goran
2007
Blood Monkey
as Professor Hamilton
The Beauty of Ugly
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Nature
TVas Narrator (voice)25 eps
2002
Ticker
as Airport Guru
Joshua
as Father Tardone
The Making of 'Amadeus'
as Self - Salieri
The Hire
TVas Airport Guru1 eps
2001
Knights Of The Quest
as Delfinello da Coverzano
2000
Finding Forrester
as Robert Crawford
The Darkling
as Bruno Rubin
1999
1997
Mimic
as Dr. Gates
Color of Justice
as Jim Sullivan
Eruption
as President Mendoza
Vacation in Hell
as Belisario
1996
Children of the Revolution
as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Baby Face Nelson
as Al Capone
Puma: Lion of the Andes
as Narrator (voice)
Dead Man's Walk
TVas Caleb Cobb
1995
Mighty Aphrodite
as Chorleiter
1994
Surviving the Game
as Wolfe, Sr.
Fresh
as Chess Hustler
Nostradamus
as Scalinger
Jamila
as Older Seit
L'Affaire
as Lucien Haslans
1993
1991
Money
as Will Scarlet
Mobsters
as Arnold Rothstein
1990
Drums of Fire
as Osrain
Cadence
as Capt. Ramon Garcia
Largo Desolato
as Professor Leopold Nettles
A Season of Giants
as Papa Giulio II
The Bonfire of the Vanities
as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
The Little Match Girl
as Narrator (voice)
Performance Pieces
as Jack Narwhal
1989
Slipstream
as Cornelius
The Favorite
as Abdul Hamid
An Innocent Man
as Virgil Cane
Beyond the Stars
as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
I promessi sposi
TVas l'Innominato
1988
Il Trovatore
as Self - Host
The Third Solution
as Father Carafa
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
as Self - Narrator (voice)
American Experience
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)1 eps
1987
1984
Amadeus
as Antonio Salieri
1983
Scarface
as Omar
1982
Marco Polo
TVas Jacopo
1978
1977
Kojak
TVas Solly Nurse / Eddie Gordon1 eps
The Andros Targets
TVas Bobby Carr
1976
All the President's Men
as Arresting Officer #1
The Ritz
as Chris
All in the Family
TVas Clerk1 eps
1974
NOVA
TVas Narrator
1973
Serpico
as Detective Partner (uncredited)
1971
They Might Be Giants
as Clyde (the usher)

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/24/1939(86 years old)
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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