F. Murray Abraham

Known For: Acting
Born: October 24, 1939
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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'…

Filmography

Bookends

2026 · Saul Cohen

This Ordinary Thing

2025 · Self (voice)

Marvel Zombies

2025 · Khonshu (voice)

Milarepa

2025 · Oyun

The Phoenician Scheme

2025 · Prophet

Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece

2025 · Himself

Mother, Couch

2024 · Marcus / Marco

Double Soul

2023 · Mentor

White House Plumbers

2023 · Judge John Sirica

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

2022 · Dr. Carl Winters

The Magic Flute

2022 · Dr. Longbow

The Siege of Vienna

2022

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose

2022 · Self (archive footage)

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight

2022 · Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Moon Knight

2022 · Khonshu (voice)

The White Lotus

2021 · Bert Di Grasso

Things Heard & Seen

2021 · Floyd DeBeers

Mythic Quest

2020 · C.W. Longbottom

Lady and the Tramp

2019 · Tony

Okavango: River of Dreams

2019 · Narrator (voice)

Chimerica

2019 · Frank Sams

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

2019 · Ayatollah (archive footage)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

2019 · Grimmel (voice)

The Letter

2018 · Narrator

Robin Hood

2018 · Cardinal

Super Cats

2018 · Narrator (voice)

Every Act of Life

2018 · Self

Isle of Dogs

2018 · Jupiter (voice)

The Orville

2017 · Chairman

Road to 9/11

2017 · Himself - Narrator

The Good Fight

2017 · Burl Preston

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

411

2015 · Information (voice)

A Little Game

2014 · Norman Wallach

Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

2014 · Self

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014 · Mr. Moustafa

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014 · Self

The Mystery of Dante

2014 · Dante Alter Ego

Inside Llewyn Davis

2013 · Bud Grossman

The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die

2013 · Braque

Love, Marilyn

2013 · Self

Dead Man Down

2013 · Gregor

Goltzius & the Pelican Company

2012 · The Margrave

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

2012 · Marco D'Aviano

Beauty and the Beast

2012 · Cyril

Elementary

2012 · Daniel Gottlieb

The Unseen World

The Unseen World

2012 · John Henry Newman

Homeland

2011 · Dar Adal

Is That Skunk?

2011 · Narrator

Blue Bloods

2010 · Leon Goodwin

Nature Amazing Places Hawaii

Nature Amazing Places Hawaii

2010 · Narrates Program One

Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air

2010

In the Valley of the Wolves

2010 · Narrator

Barbarossa

2009 · Siniscalco Barozzi

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

2009 · Self

The Good Wife

2009 · Burl Preston

Bored to Death

2009 · Professor Richard Hawkes

Perestroika

2009 · Professor Gross

The Dragon Chronicles

2009 · Narrator

Carnera: The Walking Mountain

2008 · Leon See

Shark Swarm

2008 · Professor Bill Girdler

A House Divided

A House Divided

2008 · Grandfather Wahid

Ballerina

2008 · Goran

The Beauty of Ugly

The Beauty of Ugly

2007 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America

2007 · Narrator

Blood Monkey

2007 · Professor Hamilton

Saving Grace

2007 · Matthew

Come le formiche

2007 · Ruggero

The Final Inquiry

2007 · Nathan

L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII

2007 · Nathan

Quiet Flows The Don

2006 · Pantaley

Quiet Flows the Don

2006 · Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov

The Stone Merchant

2006 · Shahid

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

2006 · Jeffrey

40 Years of Star Trek

2006 · Self

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

2004 · Viceroy of Peru

Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire

2004

My Father

2003 · Paul Minsky

Try to Remember: The Fantasticks

2003 · Self

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites

2003 · Readings (Voice)

Five Moons Plaza

2003 · Entita

Ticker

2002 · Airport Guru

The Making of 'Amadeus'

2002 · Self - Salieri

Joshua

2002 · Father Tardone

Thir13en Ghosts

2001 · Cyrus

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001 · Theodore Nichols

The Hire

2001 · Airport Guru

Knights Of The Quest

2001 · Delfinello da Coverzano

Un dono semplice

2000 · Thomas Barlow

Finding Forrester

2000 · Robert Crawford

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000 · Ayatollah

The Darkling

2000 · Bruno Rubin

The Directors: Milos Forman

2000 · Self

Excellent Cadavers

1999 · Tommaso Buscetta

Muppets from Space

1999 · Noah

Noah's Ark

1999 · Lot

Noah's Ark

1999 · Lót

Esther

1999 · Mordechai

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

1999 · Professor Henry Covington

Star Trek: Insurrection

1998 · Ad'har Ru'afo

Waiting for Godot in San Quentin

1998 · Himself

Vacation in Hell

1997 · Belisario

Einstein Revealed

Einstein Revealed

1997 · Narrator

Color of Justice

1997 · Jim Sullivan

Mimic

1997 · Dr. Gates

Eruption

1997 · President Mendoza

Children of the Revolution

1996 · Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin

Puma: Lion of the Andes

1996 · Narrator (voice)

Looking for Richard

1996 · Self

Dead Man's Walk

1996 · Caleb Cobb

Baby Face Nelson

1996 · Al Capone

Mighty Aphrodite

1995 · Chorleiter

Dillinger and Capone

1995 · Al Capone

Nostradamus

1994 · Scalinger

Fresh

1994 · Chess Hustler

Surviving the Game

1994 · Wolfe, Sr.

L'Affaire

1994 · Lucien Haslans

Jamila

1994 · Older Seit

Sweet Killing

1993 · Zargo

Journey to the Center of the Earth

1993 · Professor Harlech

Last Action Hero

1993 · John Practice

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

1993 · Harold Leacher

Through an Open Window

1992 · Narrator

The First Circle

1992 · Stalin

Eye of the Widow

1991 · Kharoun

By the Sword

1991 · Suba

Mobsters

1991 · Arnold Rothstein

Money

1991 · Will Scarlet

The Bonfire of the Vanities

1990 · D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)

Drums of Fire

1990 · Osrain

The Little Match Girl

1990 · Narrator (voice)

Cadence

1990 · Capt. Ramon Garcia

A Season of Giants

1990 · Papa Giulio II

Performance Pieces

1990 · Jack Narwhal

Largo Desolato

1990 · Professor Leopold Nettles

I promessi sposi

1989 · l'Innominato

The Making of Slipstream

1989

An Innocent Man

1989 · Virgil Cane

The Favorite

1989 · Abdul Hamid

Slipstream

1989 · Cornelius

Beyond the Stars

1989 · Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man

Il Trovatore

1988 · Self - Host

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

1988 · Self - Narrator (voice)

American Experience

1988 · Self - Narrator (voice)

The Third Solution

1988 · Father Carafa

La rosa dei nomi

1987 · Self

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

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

1986 · Self

The Name of the Rose

1986 · Bernardo Gui

Dream West

1986 · President Abraham Lincoln

Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

1985 · Herman Melville

Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier

1984 · Goldstein

Amadeus

1984 · Antonio Salieri

Scarface

1983 · Omar

Marco Polo

1982 · Jacopo

Nature

1982 · Narrator (voice)

The Big Fix

1978 · Eppis

A.E.S. Hudson Street

1978

Madman

1978 · Marco Cohen

Sex and the Married Woman

1977 · Duke Skaggs

The Andros Targets

1977 · Bobby Carr

The Ritz

1976 · Chris

All the President's Men

1976 · Arresting Officer #1

The Sunshine Boys

1975 · Mechanic

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

1975 · Taxi Driver

NOVA

1974 · Narrator

Serpico

1973 · Detective Partner (uncredited)

Kojak

1973 · Solly Nurse, Eddie Gordon

They Might Be Giants

1971 · Clyde (the usher)

All in the Family

1971 · Clerk

Dead Lawyers

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Out of This World

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Time Out

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Sharkland

— · Narrator

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