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

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Blue Bloods

Homeland

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Good Wife

Elementary

Curb Your Enthusiasm

All Movies (135)

• Bookends2026 · as Saul Cohen
• This Ordinary Thing2025 · as Self (voice)
• Milarepa2025 · as Oyun
• The Phoenician Scheme2025 · as Prophet
• Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece2025 · as Himself
• Mother, Couch2024 · as Marcus / Marco
• Double Soul2023 · as Mentor
• The Magic Flute2022 · as Dr. Longbow
• The Siege of Vienna2022
• An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight2022 · as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Things Heard & Seen2021 · as Floyd DeBeers
• Lady and the Tramp2019 · as Tony
• Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail2019 · as Ayatollah (archive footage)
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World2019 · as Grimmel (voice)
• The Letter2018 · as Narrator
• Robin Hood2018 · as Cardinal
• Super Cats2018 · as Narrator (voice)
• Every Act of Life2018 · as Self
• Isle of Dogs2018 · as Jupiter (voice)
• 4112015 · as Information (voice)
• A Little Game2014 · as Norman Wallach
• Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'2014 · as Self
• The Grand Budapest Hotel2014 · as Mr. Moustafa
• The Mystery of Dante2014 · as Dante Alter Ego
• Inside Llewyn Davis2013 · as Bud Grossman
• The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die2013 · as Braque
• Love, Marilyn2013 · as Self
• Dead Man Down2013 · as Gregor
• Goltzius & the Pelican Company2012 · as The Margrave
• The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 16832012 · as Marco D'Aviano
• The Unseen World2012 · as John Henry Newman
• Is That Skunk?2011 · as Narrator
• Nature Amazing Places Hawaii2010 · as Narrates Program One
• Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air2010
• In the Valley of the Wolves2010 · as Narrator
• Barbarossa2009 · as Siniscalco Barozzi
• Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…2009 · as Self
• Perestroika2009 · as Professor Gross
• The Dragon Chronicles2009 · as Narrator
• Carnera: The Walking Mountain2008 · as Leon See
• Shark Swarm2008 · as Professor Bill Girdler
• A House Divided2008 · as Grandfather Wahid
• Ballerina2008 · as Goran
• The Beauty of Ugly2007 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America2007 · as Narrator
• Blood Monkey2007 · as Professor Hamilton
• Come le formiche2007 · as Ruggero
• The Final Inquiry2007 · as Nathan
• Quiet Flows The Don2006 · as Pantaley
• The Stone Merchant2006 · as Shahid
• Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers2006 · as Jeffrey
• 40 Years of Star Trek2006 · as Self
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey2004 · as Viceroy of Peru
• Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire2004
• My Father2003 · as Paul Minsky
• Try to Remember: The Fantasticks2003 · as Self
• Five Moons Plaza2003 · as Entita
• Ticker2002 · as Airport Guru
• The Making of 'Amadeus'2002 · as Self - Salieri
• Joshua2002 · as Father Tardone
• Thir13en Ghosts2001 · as Cyrus
• Knights Of The Quest2001 · as Delfinello da Coverzano
• Un dono semplice2000 · as Thomas Barlow
• Finding Forrester2000 · as Robert Crawford
• The Darkling2000 · as Bruno Rubin
• The Directors: Milos Forman2000 · as Self
• Excellent Cadavers1999 · as Tommaso Buscetta
• Muppets from Space1999 · as Noah
• Noah's Ark1999 · as Lót
• Esther1999 · as Mordechai
• The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy1999 · as Professor Henry Covington
• Star Trek: Insurrection1998 · as Ad'har Ru'afo
• Waiting for Godot in San Quentin1998 · as Himself
• Vacation in Hell1997 · as Belisario
• Einstein Revealed1997 · as Narrator
• Color of Justice1997 · as Jim Sullivan
• Mimic1997 · as Dr. Gates
• Eruption1997 · as President Mendoza
• Children of the Revolution1996 · as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
• Puma: Lion of the Andes1996 · as Narrator (voice)
• Looking for Richard1996 · as Self
• Baby Face Nelson1996 · as Al Capone
• Mighty Aphrodite1995 · as Chorleiter
• Dillinger and Capone1995 · as Al Capone
• Nostradamus1994 · as Scalinger
• Fresh1994 · as Chess Hustler
• Surviving the Game1994 · as Wolfe, Sr.
• L'Affaire1994 · as Lucien Haslans
• Jamila1994 · as Older Seit
• Sweet Killing1993 · as Zargo
• Journey to the Center of the Earth1993 · as Professor Harlech
• Last Action Hero1993 · as John Practice
• National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 11993 · as Harold Leacher
• Through an Open Window1992 · as Narrator
• The First Circle1992 · as Stalin
• Eye of the Widow1991 · as Kharoun
• By the Sword1991 · as Suba
• Mobsters1991 · as Arnold Rothstein
• Money1991 · as Will Scarlet
• The Bonfire of the Vanities1990 · as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
• Drums of Fire1990 · as Osrain
• The Little Match Girl1990 · as Narrator (voice)
• Cadence1990 · as Capt. Ramon Garcia
• A Season of Giants1990 · as Papa Giulio II
• Performance Pieces1990 · as Jack Narwhal
• Largo Desolato1990 · as Professor Leopold Nettles
• The Making of Slipstream1989
• An Innocent Man1989 · as Virgil Cane
• The Favorite1989 · as Abdul Hamid
• Slipstream1989 · as Cornelius
• Beyond the Stars1989 · as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
• Il Trovatore1988 · as Self - Host
• The Great San Francisco Earthquake1988 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Third Solution1988 · as Father Carafa
• La rosa dei nomi1987 · as Self
• The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'1986 · as Self
• The Name of the Rose1986 · as Bernardo Gui
• Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise1985 · as Herman Melville
• Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier1984 · as Goldstein
• Amadeus1984 · as Antonio Salieri
• Scarface1983 · as Omar
• The Big Fix1978 · as Eppis
• Madman1978 · as Marco Cohen
• Sex and the Married Woman1977 · as Duke Skaggs
• The Ritz1976 · as Chris
• All the President's Men1976 · as Arresting Officer #1
• The Sunshine Boys1975 · as Mechanic
• The Prisoner of Second Avenue1975 · as Taxi Driver
• Serpico1973 · as Detective Partner (uncredited)
• They Might Be Giants1971 · as Clyde (the usher)
• Dead Lawyers—
• Out of This World—
• Time Out—
• Sharkland— · as Narrator

All TV Shows (38)

• Marvel Zombies2025 · as Khonshu (voice)
• White House Plumbers2023 · as Judge John Sirica
• Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities2022 · as Dr. Carl Winters
• Moon Knight2022 · as Khonshu (voice)
• The White Lotus2021 · as Bert Di Grasso
• Mythic Quest2020 · as C.W. Longbottom
• Okavango: River of Dreams2019 · as Narrator (voice)
• Chimerica2019 · as Frank Sams
• The Orville2017 · as Chairman
• Road to 9/112017 · as Himself - Narrator
• The Good Fight2017 · as Burl Preston
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• Beauty and the Beast2012 · as Cyril
• Elementary2012 · as Daniel Gottlieb
• Homeland2011 · as Dar Adal
• Blue Bloods2010 · as Leon Goodwin
• The Good Wife2009 · as Burl Preston
• Saving Grace2007 · as Matthew
• L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII2007 · as Nathan
• Quiet Flows the Don2006 · as Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
• Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites2003 · as Readings (Voice)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Theodore Nichols
• The Hire2001 · as Airport Guru
• Curb Your Enthusiasm2000 · as Ayatollah
• Noah's Ark1999 · as Lot
• Dead Man's Walk1996 · as Caleb Cobb
• I promessi sposi1989 · as l'Innominato
• American Experience1988 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Dream West1986 · as President Abraham Lincoln
• Marco Polo1982 · as Jacopo
• Nature1982 · as Narrator (voice)
• A.E.S. Hudson Street1978
• The Andros Targets1977 · as Bobby Carr
• NOVA1974 · as Narrator
• Kojak1973 · as Solly Nurse
• Kojak1973 · as Eddie Gordon
• All in the Family1971 · as Clerk