F. Murray Abraham
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.
Born: 24 October 1939
Played In
Movie
Feb 2026
Bookends
Saul Cohen
Movie
Dec 2025
This Ordinary Thing
Self (voice)
TV Show
Sep 2025
Marvel Zombies
Khonshu (voice)
Movie
Jun 2025
Milarepa
Oyun
Movie
May 2025
The Phoenician Scheme
Prophet
Movie
Feb 2025
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
Himself
Movie
Jul 2024
Mother, Couch
Marcus / Marco
Movie
Jul 2023
Double Soul
Mentor
TV Show
May 2023
White House Plumbers
Judge John Sirica
TV Show
Oct 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Dr. Carl Winters
Movie
Sep 2022
The Magic Flute
Dr. Longbow
Movie
Sep 2022
The Siege of Vienna
Movie
Jul 2022
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
Movie
May 2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
TV Show
Mar 2022
Moon Knight
Khonshu (voice)
TV Show
Jul 2021
The White Lotus
Bert Di Grasso
Movie
Apr 2021
Things Heard & Seen
Floyd DeBeers
TV Show
Feb 2020
Mythic Quest
C.W. Longbottom
Movie
Nov 2019
Lady and the Tramp
Tony
TV Show
Oct 2019
Okavango: River of Dreams
Narrator (voice)
TV Show
Apr 2019
Chimerica
Frank Sams
Movie
Jan 2019
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Ayatollah (archive footage)
Movie
Jan 2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Grimmel (voice)
Movie
Dec 2018
The Letter
Narrator
Movie
Nov 2018
Robin Hood
Cardinal
Movie
Oct 2018
Super Cats
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Apr 2018
Every Act of Life
Self
Movie
Mar 2018
Isle of Dogs
Jupiter (voice)
TV Show
Sep 2017
The Orville
Chairman
TV Show
Sep 2017
Road to 9/11
Himself - Narrator
TV Show
Feb 2017
The Good Fight
Burl Preston
TV Show
Sep 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Movie
Jan 2015
411
Information (voice)
Movie
Apr 2014
A Little Game
Norman Wallach
Movie
Mar 2014
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
Movie
Feb 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Moustafa
TV Show
Feb 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Movie
Feb 2014
The Mystery of Dante
Dante Alter Ego
Movie
Oct 2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
Bud Grossman
Movie
May 2013
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
Braque
Movie
May 2013
Love, Marilyn
Self
Movie
Mar 2013
Dead Man Down
Gregor
Movie
Nov 2012
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
The Margrave
Movie
Oct 2012
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
Marco D'Aviano
TV Show
Oct 2012
Beauty and the Beast
Cyril
TV Show
Sep 2012
Elementary
Daniel Gottlieb
Movie
Jun 2012
The Unseen World
John Henry Newman
TV Show
Oct 2011
Homeland
Dar Adal
Movie
Aug 2011
Is That Skunk?
Narrator
TV Show
Sep 2010
Blue Bloods
Leon Goodwin
Movie
Apr 2010
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
Narrates Program One
Movie
Jan 2010
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
Movie
Jan 2010
In the Valley of the Wolves
Narrator
Movie
Oct 2009
Barbarossa
Siniscalco Barozzi
Movie
Oct 2009
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
TV Show
Sep 2009
The Good Wife
Burl Preston
Movie
Mar 2009
Perestroika
Professor Gross
Movie
Jan 2009
The Dragon Chronicles
Narrator
Movie
May 2008
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
Leon See
Movie
Mar 2008
Shark Swarm
Professor Bill Girdler
Movie
Jan 2008
A House Divided
Grandfather Wahid
Movie
Jan 2008
Ballerina
Goran
Movie
Nov 2007
The Beauty of Ugly
Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie
Oct 2007
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
Narrator
Movie
Sep 2007
Blood Monkey
Professor Hamilton
TV Show
Jul 2007
Saving Grace
Matthew
Movie
Jun 2007
Come le formiche
Ruggero
Movie
Apr 2007
The Final Inquiry
Nathan
TV Show
Apr 2007
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Nathan
Movie
Nov 2006
Quiet Flows The Don
Pantaley
TV Show
Nov 2006
Quiet Flows the Don
Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
Movie
Sep 2006
The Stone Merchant
Shahid
Movie
Jun 2006
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
Jeffrey
Movie
Jan 2006
40 Years of Star Trek
Self
Movie
Dec 2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Viceroy of Peru
Movie
Jun 2004
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
Movie
Sep 2003
My Father
Paul Minsky
Movie
May 2003
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Self
TV Show
May 2003
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Readings (Voice)
Movie
May 2003
Five Moons Plaza
Entita
Movie
Nov 2002
Ticker
Airport Guru
Movie
Sep 2002
The Making of 'Amadeus'
Self - Salieri
Movie
Apr 2002
Joshua
Father Tardone
Movie
Oct 2001
Thir13en Ghosts
Cyrus
TV Show
Sep 2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Theodore Nichols
TV Show
Apr 2001
The Hire
Airport Guru
Movie
Apr 2001
Knights Of The Quest
Delfinello da Coverzano
Movie
Dec 2000
Un dono semplice
Thomas Barlow
Movie
Dec 2000
Finding Forrester
Robert Crawford
TV Show
Oct 2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Ayatollah
Movie
Aug 2000
The Darkling
Bruno Rubin
Movie
Aug 2000
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
Movie
Oct 1999
Excellent Cadavers
Tommaso Buscetta
Movie
Jul 1999
Muppets from Space
Noah
TV Show
May 1999
Noah's Ark
Lot
Movie
May 1999
Noah's Ark
Lót
Movie
Mar 1999
Esther
Mordechai
Movie
Jan 1999
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
Professor Henry Covington
Movie
Dec 1998
Star Trek: Insurrection
Ad'har Ru'afo
Movie
Jan 1998
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Himself
Movie
Dec 1997
Vacation in Hell
Belisario
Movie
Sep 1997
Einstein Revealed
Narrator
Movie
Sep 1997
Color of Justice
Jim Sullivan
Movie
Aug 1997
Mimic
Dr. Gates
Movie
Jan 1997
Eruption
President Mendoza
Movie
Dec 1996
Children of the Revolution
Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Movie
Dec 1996
Puma: Lion of the Andes
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Oct 1996
Looking for Richard
Self
TV Show
May 1996
Dead Man's Walk
Caleb Cobb
Movie
Jan 1996
Baby Face Nelson
Al Capone
Movie
Sep 1995
Mighty Aphrodite
Chorleiter
Movie
Jun 1995
Dillinger and Capone
Al Capone
Movie
Aug 1994
Nostradamus
Scalinger
Movie
Jun 1994
Fresh
Chess Hustler
Movie
Apr 1994
Surviving the Game
Wolfe, Sr.
Movie
Apr 1994
L'Affaire
Lucien Haslans
Movie
Jan 1994
Jamila
Older Seit
Movie
Oct 1993
Sweet Killing
Zargo
Movie
Jul 1993
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Professor Harlech
Movie
Jun 1993
Last Action Hero
John Practice
Movie
Feb 1993
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Harold Leacher
Movie
Mar 1992
Through an Open Window
Narrator
Movie
Feb 1992
The First Circle
Stalin
Movie
Oct 1991
Eye of the Widow
Kharoun
Movie
Oct 1991
By the Sword
Suba
Movie
Jul 1991
Mobsters
Arnold Rothstein
Movie
Apr 1991
Money
Will Scarlet
Movie
Dec 1990
The Bonfire of the Vanities
D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
Movie
Dec 1990
Drums of Fire
Osrain
Movie
Dec 1990
The Little Match Girl
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Nov 1990
Cadence
Capt. Ramon Garcia
Movie
Nov 1990
A Season of Giants
Papa Giulio II
Movie
Apr 1990
Performance Pieces
Jack Narwhal
Movie
Apr 1990
Largo Desolato
Professor Leopold Nettles
TV Show
Nov 1989
I promessi sposi
l'Innominato
Movie
Oct 1989
The Making of Slipstream
Movie
Oct 1989
An Innocent Man
Virgil Cane
Movie
Aug 1989
The Favorite
Abdul Hamid
Movie
Jun 1989
Slipstream
Cornelius
Movie
Mar 1989
Beyond the Stars
Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
Movie
Oct 1988
Il Trovatore
Self - Host
Movie
Oct 1988
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Self - Narrator (voice)
TV Show
Oct 1988
American Experience
Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie
Apr 1988
The Third Solution
Father Carafa
Movie
Jan 1987
La rosa dei nomi
Self
Movie
Oct 1986
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Self
Movie
Sep 1986
The Name of the Rose
Bernardo Gui
TV Show
Apr 1986
Dream West
President Abraham Lincoln
Movie
May 1985
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Herman Melville
Movie
Sep 1984
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Goldstein
Movie
Sep 1984
Amadeus
Antonio Salieri
Movie
Dec 1983
Scarface
Omar
TV Show
Dec 1982
Marco Polo
Jacopo
TV Show
Oct 1982
Nature
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Oct 1978
The Big Fix
Eppis
TV Show
Mar 1978
A.E.S. Hudson Street
Movie
Jan 1978
Madman
Marco Cohen
Movie
Sep 1977
Sex and the Married Woman
Duke Skaggs
TV Show
Jan 1977
The Andros Targets
Bobby Carr
Movie
Aug 1976
The Ritz
Chris
Movie
Apr 1976
All the President's Men
Arresting Officer #1
Movie
Nov 1975
The Sunshine Boys
Mechanic
Movie
Mar 1975
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Taxi Driver
TV Show
Mar 1974
NOVA
Narrator
Movie
Dec 1973
Serpico
Detective Partner (uncredited)
TV Show
Oct 1973
Kojak
Solly Nurse
TV Show
Oct 1973
Kojak
Eddie Gordon
Movie
Jun 1971
They Might Be Giants
Clyde (the usher)
TV Show
Jan 1971
All in the Family
Clerk
Movie
Dead Lawyers
Movie
Out of This World
Movie
Time Out
Movie
Sharkland
Narrator