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