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. Description above from the Wikipedia article F. Murray Abraham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Omar
Scarface
Bernardo Gui
The Name of the Rose
Ad'har Ru'afo
Star Trek: Insurrection
Antonio Salieri
Amadeus
Robert Crawford
Finding Forrester
Mordechai
Esther
Entita
Piazza delle cinque lune
Dr. Gates
Mimic
Grandfather Wahid
A House Divided
Bruno Rubin
The Darkling
Cornelius
Slipstream
Chorleiter
Mighty Aphrodite
Professor Gross
Perestroika
D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
John Practice
Last Action Hero
Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Children of the Revolution
Harold Leacher
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Leon See
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
Mentor
Double Soul
Virgil Cane
An Innocent Man
Eppis
The Big Fix
Professor Hamilton
Blood Monkey
Suba
By the Sword
Shahid
Il mercante di pietre
Delfinello da Coverzano
I cavalieri che fecero l'impresa
Chris
The Ritz
Siniscalco Barozzi
Barbarossa
Viceroy of Peru
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Mechanic
The Sunshine Boys
Wolfe Sr.
Surviving the Game
Narrator (voice)
The Little Match Girl
Scalinger
Nostradamus
Father Tardone
Joshua
Tommaso Buscetta
Excellent Cadavers
Taxi Driver
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Zargo
Sweet Killing
Abdul Hamid
The Favorite
Al Capone
Dillinger and Capone
Goldstein
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Narrator
Einstein Revealed
Narrator
Through an Open Window
Bud Grossman
Inside Llewyn Davis
Professor Bill Girdler
Shark Swarm
Gregor
Dead Man Down
Self
Love, Marilyn
Mr. Moustafa
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jeffrey
Peperoni ripieni e pesci in faccia
Pantaley
Тихий Дон
Marcus / Marco
Mother, Couch
The Margrave
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
Marco Cohen
Madman
Marco D'Aviano
11 settembre 1683
Will Scarlet
Money
Professor Leopold Nettles
Largo Desolato
Braque
Ti ho cercata in tutti i necrologi
Narrator
Is That Skunk?
Al Capone
Baby Face Nelson
Professor Henry Covington
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
Professor Harlech
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Dante Alter Ego
Il mistero di Dante
Noah
Muppets from Space
Cyrus Kriticos
Thir13en Ghosts
Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Clyde (the usher)
They Might Be Giants
Arnold Rothstein
Mobsters
Papa Giulio II
A Season of Giants
Capt. Ramon Garcia
Cadence
Duke Skaggs
Sex and the Married Woman
Narrator
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
Narrator
The Letter
Kharoun
Eye of the Widow
Self
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
President Mendoza
Eruption
Osrain
La batalla de los tres reyes
Norman Wallach
A Little Game
Stalin
The First Circle
The Siege of Vienna
Paul Minsky
My Father, Rua Alguem 5555
Oyun
Milarepa
Jim Sullivan
Color of Justice
Detective Partner (uncredited)
Serpico
Arresting Officer #1
All the President's Men
Narrator (voice)
Super Cats
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
Airport Guru
Ticker
Himself
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Lucien Haslans
L'Affaire
Narrates Program One
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
Jupiter (voice)
Isle of Dogs
主演
Un dono semplice
Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
Beyond the Stars
Father Carafa
Russicum - I giorni del diavolo
Chess Hustler
Fresh
Self
Looking for Richard
Nathan
L'inchiesta
Older Seit
Jamila
Self - Salieri
The Making of 'Amadeus'
Self
Miloš Forman: Co tě nezabije…
Self
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Belisario
Una vacanza all'inferno
Self
Every Act of Life
Cardinal
Robin Hood
Grimmel (voice)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Self
40 Years of Star Trek
Ruggero
Come le formiche
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
Tony
Lady and the Tramp
Ayatollah (archive footage)
Salman Rushdie : la mort aux trousses
Information (voice)
411
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
Narrator
In the Valley of the Wolves
Narrator
The Dragon Chronicles
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Beauty of Ugly
Self - Host
Il Trovatore
Goran
Ballerina
Self
Die Abtei des Verbrechens - Umberto Ecos „Der Name der Rose“ wird verfilmt
Self
La rosa dei nomi
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Dr. Longbow
The Magic Flute - Das Vermächtnis der Zauberflöte
Floyd DeBeers
Things Heard & Seen
John Henry Newman
The Unseen World
Herman Melville
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Cyril
Beauty and the Beast
Saul Cohen
Bookends
Dead Lawyers
Self
The Directors: Milos Forman
Narrator (voice)
Okavango: River of Dreams - Director's Cut
Prophet
The Phoenician Scheme
The Making of Slipstream
Out of This World
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
130
Gender
Male
Birthday
1939-10-24
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
Frank Murray Abraham