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