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 came to prominence for his acclaimed leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Abraham made his Broadway debut in the 1968 play 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 starred in Mythic Quest (2020–2021), Moon Knight (2022), and The White Lotus (2022) with the latter earning him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series.

Cast

Scarface

(Omar)

The Name of the Rose

(Bernardo Gui)

Star Trek: Insurrection

(Ad'har Ru'afo)

Amadeus

(Antonio Salieri)

Finding Forrester

(Robert Crawford)

Esther

(Mordechai)

Five Moons Plaza

(Entita)

Mimic

(Dr. Gates)

A House Divided

(Grandfather Wahid)

The Darkling

(Bruno Rubin)

Slipstream

(Cornelius)

Mighty Aphrodite

(Chorleiter)

Perestroika

(Professor Gross)

The Bonfire of the Vanities

(D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited))

Last Action Hero

(John Practice)

Children of the Revolution

(Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin)

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

(Harold Leacher)

Carnera: The Walking Mountain

(Leon See)

Double Soul

(Mentor)

An Innocent Man

(Virgil Cane)

The Big Fix

(Eppis)

Blood Monkey

(Professor Hamilton)

By the Sword

(Suba)

The Stone Merchant

(Shahid)

Knights of the Quest

(Delfinello da Coverzano)

The Ritz

(Chris)

Barbarossa

(Siniscalco Barozzi)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

(Viceroy of Peru)

The Sunshine Boys

(Mechanic)

Surviving the Game

(Wolfe Sr.)

The Little Match Girl

(Narrator (voice))

Nostradamus

(Scalinger)

Joshua

(Father Tardone)

Excellent Cadavers

(Tommaso Buscetta)

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

(Taxi Driver)

Sweet Killing

(Zargo)

The Favorite

(Abdul Hamid)

Dillinger and Capone

(Al Capone)

Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier

(Goldstein)

Einstein Revealed

(Narrator)

Through an Open Window

(Narrator)

Inside Llewyn Davis

(Bud Grossman)

Shark Swarm

(Professor Bill Girdler)

Dead Man Down

(Gregor)

Love, Marilyn

(Self)

The Grand Budapest Hotel

(Mr. Moustafa)

Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers

(Jeffrey)

Quiet Flows The Don

(Pantaley)

Mother, Couch

(Marcus / Marco)

Goltzius & the Pelican Company

(The Margrave)

Madman

(Marco Cohen)

Day of the Siege

(Marco D'Aviano)

Money

(Will Scarlet)

Largo Desolato

(Professor Leopold Nettles)

The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die

(Braque)

Is That Skunk?

(Narrator)

Baby Face Nelson

(Al Capone)

The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy

(Professor Henry Covington)

Journey to the Center of the Earth

(Professor Harlech)

The Mystery of Dante

(Dante Alter Ego)

Muppets from Space

(Noah)

Thir13en Ghosts

(Cyrus Kriticos)

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight

(Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited))

They Might Be Giants

(Clyde (the usher))

Mobsters

(Arnold Rothstein)

A Season of Giants

(Papa Giulio II)

Cadence

(Capt. Ramon Garcia)

Sex and the Married Woman

(Duke Skaggs)

Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America

(Narrator)

The Letter

(Narrator)

Eye of the Widow

(Kharoun)

Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

(Self)

Eruption

(President Mendoza)

Drums of Fire

(Osrain)

A Little Game

(Norman Wallach)

The First Circle

(Stalin)

The Siege of Vienna

My Father

(Paul Minsky)

Milarepa

(Oyun)

Color of Justice

(Jim Sullivan)

Serpico

(Detective Partner (uncredited))

All the President's Men

(Arresting Officer #1)

Super Cats

(Narrator (voice))

Le nom de la rose : Le documentaire

Ticker

(Airport Guru)

Waiting for Godot in San Quentin

(Himself)

L'Affaire

(Lucien Haslans)

Nature Amazing Places Hawaii

(Narrates Program One)

Isle of Dogs

(Jupiter (voice))

Un dono semplice

(主演)

Beyond the Stars

(Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man)

Looking for Richard

(Self)

The Final Inquiry

(Nathan)

Fresh

(Chess Hustler)

The Third Solution

(Father Carafa)

Jamila

(Older Seit)

The Making of 'Amadeus'

(Self - Salieri)

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

(Self)

Try to Remember: The Fantasticks

(Self)

Vacation in Hell

(Belisario)

Every Act of Life

(Self)

Robin Hood

(Cardinal)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

(Grimmel (voice))

40 Years of Star Trek

(Self)

Come le formiche

(Ruggero)

And the Oscar Goes To...

(Self (archive footage))

Lady and the Tramp

(Tony)

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

(Ayatollah (archive footage))

411

(Information (voice))

Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air

In the Valley of the Wolves

(Narrator)

The Dragon Chronicles

(Narrator)

The Beauty of Ugly

(Narrator)

Il Trovatore

(Self - Host)

Ballerina

(Goran)

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

(Self)

La rosa dei nomi

(Self)

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

(Self - Narrator (voice))

The Magic Flute

(Dr. Longbow)

Things Heard & Seen

(Floyd DeBeers)

The Unseen World

(John Henry Newman)

Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

(Herman Melville)

Homeland

(Dar Adal)

All in the Family

(Clerk)

Kojak

(Solly Nurse)

A.E.S. Hudson Street

Nature

(Narrator (voice))

The Andros Targets

(Bobby Carr)

Elementary

(Daniel Gottlieb)

NOVA

(Narrator)

Dead Man's Walk

(Caleb Cobb)

Blue Bloods

(Leon Goodwin)

White House Plumbers

(Judge John Sirica)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

(Theodore Nichols)

The Good Wife

(Burl Preston)

Dream West

(President Abraham Lincoln)

Beauty and the Beast

(Cyril)

The Hire

(Airport Guru)

Moon Knight

(Khonshu (voice))

Kojak

(Eddie Gordon)

I promessi sposi

(l'Innominato)

Noah's Ark

(Lot)

American Experience

(Narrator)

The Good Fight

(Burl Preston)

Road to 9/11

(Himself - Narrator)

Quiet Flows the Don

(Pantaley)

L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII

(Nathan)

Chimerica

(Frank Sams)

The White Lotus

(Bert Di Grasso)

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

(Dr. Carl Winters)

Mythic Quest

(C.W. Longbottom)

Marco Polo

(Jacopo)

Okavango: River of Dreams

(vypravěč)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Orville

(Chairman)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

(Ayatollah)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

(Self)