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