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