F. Murray Abraham
Acting
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.
TV Shows(37)
Marvel Zombies
Khonshu (voice)
2025
White House Plumbers
Judge John Sirica
2023
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Dr. Carl Winters
2022
Moon Knight
Khonshu (voice)
2022
The White Lotus
Bert Di Grasso
2021
Mythic Quest
C.W. Longbottom
2020
Okavango: River of Dreams
Narrator (voice)
2019
Chimerica
Frank Sams
2019
The Orville
Chairman
2017
Road to 9/11
Himself - Narrator
2017
The Good Fight
Burl Preston
2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
Beauty and the Beast
Cyril
2012
Elementary
Daniel Gottlieb
2012
Homeland
Dar Adal
2011
Blue Bloods
Leon Goodwin
2010
The Good Wife
Burl Preston
2009
Saving Grace
Matthew
2007
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Nathan
2007
Quiet Flows the Don
Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
2006
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Readings (Voice)
2003
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Theodore Nichols
2001
The Hire
Airport Guru
2001
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Ayatollah
2000
Noah's Ark
Lot
1999
Dead Man's Walk
Caleb Cobb
1996
I promessi sposi
l'Innominato
1989
American Experience
Self - Narrator (voice)
1988
Dream West
President Abraham Lincoln
1986
Marco Polo
Jacopo
1982
Nature
Narrator (voice)
1982
A.E.S. Hudson Street
1978
The Andros Targets
Bobby Carr
1977
NOVA
Narrator
1974
Kojak
Solly Nurse
1973
All in the Family
Clerk
1971
Movies(133)
Bookends
Saul Cohen
2026
This Ordinary Thing
Self (voice)
2025
Milarepa
Oyun
2025
The Phoenician Scheme
Prophet
2025
Mother, Couch
Marcus / Marco
2024
Double Soul
Mentor
2023
The Magic Flute
Dr. Longbow
2022
The Siege of Vienna
2022
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
Things Heard & Seen
Floyd DeBeers
2021
Lady and the Tramp
Tony
2019
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Ayatollah (archive footage)
2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Grimmel (voice)
2019
The Letter
Narrator
2018
Robin Hood
Cardinal
2018
Super Cats
Narrator (voice)
2018
Every Act of Life
Self
2018
Isle of Dogs
Jupiter (voice)
2018
411
Information (voice)
2015
A Little Game
Norman Wallach
2014
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Moustafa
2014
The Mystery of Dante
Dante Alter Ego
2014
Inside Llewyn Davis
Bud Grossman
2013
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
Braque
2013
Love, Marilyn
Self
2013
Dead Man Down
Gregor
2013
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
The Margrave
2012
The Day Of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
Marco D'Aviano
2012
The Unseen World
John Henry Newman
2012
Is That Skunk?
Narrator
2011
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
Narrates Program One
2010
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
2010
In the Valley of the Wolves
Narrator
2010
Barbarossa
Siniscalco Barozzi
2009
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
2009
Perestroika
Professor Gross
2009
The Dragon Chronicles
Narrator
2009
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
Leon See
2008
Shark Swarm
Professor Bill Girdler
2008
A House Divided
Grandfather Wahid
2008
Ballerina
Goran
2008
The Beauty of Ugly
Self - Narrator (voice)
2007
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
Narrator
2007
Blood Monkey
Professor Hamilton
2007
Come le formiche
Ruggero
2007
The Final Inquiry
Nathan
2007
Quiet Flows The Don
Pantaley
2006
The Stone Merchant
Shahid
2006
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
Jeffrey
2006
40 Years of Star Trek
Self
2006
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Viceroy of Peru
2004
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
2004
My Father
Paul Minsky
2003
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Self
2003
Five Moons Plaza
Entita
2003
Ticker
Airport Guru
2002
The Making of 'Amadeus'
Self - Salieri
2002
Joshua
Father Tardone
2002
Thir13en Ghosts
Cyrus
2001
Knights Of The Quest
Delfinello da Coverzano
2001
Un dono semplice
Thomas Barlow
2000
Finding Forrester
Robert Crawford
2000
The Darkling
Bruno Rubin
2000
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
2000
Excellent Cadavers
Tommaso Buscetta
1999
Muppets from Space
Noah
1999
Noah's Ark
Lót
1999
Esther
Mordechai
1999
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
Professor Henry Covington
1999
Star Trek: Insurrection
Ad'har Ru'afo
1998
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Himself
1998
Vacation in Hell
Belisario
1997
Einstein Revealed
Narrator
1997
Color of Justice
Jim Sullivan
1997
Mimic
Dr. Gates
1997
Eruption
President Mendoza
1997
Children of the Revolution
Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
1996
Puma: Lion of the Andes
Narrator (voice)
1996
Looking for Richard
Self
1996
Baby Face Nelson
Al Capone
1996
Mighty Aphrodite
Chorleiter
1995
Dillinger and Capone
Al Capone
1995
Nostradamus
Scalinger
1994
Fresh
Chess Hustler
1994
Surviving the Game
Wolfe, Sr.
1994
L'Affaire
Lucien Haslans
1994
Jamila
Older Seit
1994
Sweet Killing
Zargo
1993
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Professor Harlech
1993
Last Action Hero
John Practice
1993
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Harold Leacher
1993
Through an Open Window
Narrator
1992
The First Circle
Stalin
1992
Eye of the Widow
Kharoun
1991
By the Sword
Suba
1991
Mobsters
Arnold Rothstein
1991
Money
Will Scarlet
1991
The Bonfire of the Vanities
D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
1990
Drums of Fire
Osrain
1990
The Little Match Girl
Narrator (voice)
1990
Cadence
Capt. Ramon Garcia
1990
A Season of Giants
Papa Giulio II
1990
Performance Pieces
Jack Narwhal
1990
Largo Desolato
Professor Leopold Nettles
1990
The Making of Slipstream
1989
An Innocent Man
Virgil Cane
1989
The Favorite
Abdul Hamid
1989
Slipstream
Cornelius
1989
Beyond the Stars
Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
1989
Il Trovatore
Self - Host
1988
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Self - Narrator (voice)
1988
The Third Solution
Father Carafa
1988
La rosa dei nomi
Self
1987
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Self
1986
The Name of the Rose
Bernardo Gui
1986
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Herman Melville
1985
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Goldstein
1984
Amadeus
Antonio Salieri
1984
Scarface
Omar
1983
The Big Fix
Eppis
1978
Madman
Marco Cohen
1978
Sex and the Married Woman
Duke Skaggs
1977
The Ritz
Chris
1976
All the President's Men
Arresting Officer #1
1976
The Sunshine Boys
Mechanic
1975
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Taxi Driver
1975
Serpico
Detective Partner (uncredited)
1973
They Might Be Giants
Clyde (the usher)
1971
Dead Lawyers
Out of This World
Time Out