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F. Murray Abraham

Born · October 24, 1939 (85 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Bio

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.

Known for

Mother, Couch

Marcus / Marco

5.5

2024

Milarepa

Oyun

0.0

2024

Double Soul

Mentor

5.6

2023

The Magic Flute

Dr. Longbow

6.5

2022

The Siege of Vienna

0.0

2022

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight

Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.1

2022

Things Heard & Seen

Floyd DeBeers

5.7

2021

Lady and the Tramp

Tony

7.2

2019

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

Ayatollah (archive footage)

6.6

2019

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Grimmel (voice)

7.8

2019

The Letter

Narrator

0.0

2018

Robin Hood

Cardinal

5.9

2018

Super Cats

Narrator (voice)

0.0

2018

Every Act of Life

Self

7.0

2018

Isle of Dogs

Jupiter (voice)

7.9

2018

411

Information (voice)

0.0

2015

A Little Game

Norman Wallach

6.5

2014

Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

Siniscalco Barozzi

5.0

2009

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

Self

6.6

2009

Perestroika

Professor Gross

3.8

2009

The Dragon Chronicles

Narrator

0.0

2009

Carnera: The Walking Mountain

Leon See

6.0

2008

Shark Swarm

Professor Bill Girdler

5.4

2008

A House Divided

Grandfather Wahid

6.5

2008

Ballerina

5.1

2004

Le nom de la rose : Le documentaire

10.0

2004

My Father

Paul Minsky

6.0

2003

Try to Remember: The Fantasticks

Self

6.7

2003

Five Moons Plaza

Entita

5.5

2003

Ticker

Airport Guru

6.6

2002

The Making of 'Amadeus'

Self - Salieri

7.4

2002

Joshua

Father Tardone

6.4

2002

Thir13en Ghosts

Cyrus Kriticos

6.2

2001

Knights of the Quest

Delfinello da Coverzano

4.5

2001

Un dono semplice

主演

0.0

2000

Finding Forrester

Robert Crawford

7.1

2000

The Darkling

Bruno Rubin

4.8

2000

Excellent Cadavers

Tommaso Buscetta

6.0

1999

Muppets from Space

Noah

6.0

1999

Esther

Mordechai

6.8

1999

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

Professor Henry Covington

4.2

1999

Star Trek: Insurrection

Ad'har Ru'afo

6.4

1998

Waiting for Godot in San Quentin

Himself

0.0

1998

Vacation in Hell

Belisario

6.0

1997

Einstein Revealed

Narrator

4.5

1997

Color of Justice

Jim Sullivan

5.5

1997

Mimic

Dr. Gates

6.1

1997

Eruption

President Mendoza

1.0

1997

Children of the Revolution

Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin

5.6

1996

Looking for Richard

Self

6.8

1996

Baby Face Nelson

Al Capone

6.7

1996

Mighty Aphrodite

Chorleiter

6.7

1995

Dillinger and Capone

Al Capone

5.4

1995

Nostradamus

Scalinger

5.7

1994

Fresh

Chess Hustler

7.2

1994

Surviving the Game

Wolfe Sr.

6.1

1994

L'Affaire

Lucien Haslans

3.0

1994

Jamila

Older Seit

0.0

1994

Sweet Killing

Zargo

4.2

1993

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Professor Harlech

3.8

1993

Last Action Hero

John Practice

6.5

1993

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Harold Leacher

6.0

1993

Through an Open Window

Narrator

0.0

1992

The First Circle

Stalin

4.8

1992

Eye of the Widow

Kharoun

3.3

1991

By the Sword

Suba

6.0

1991

Mobsters

Arnold Rothstein

6.2

1991

Money

Will Scarlet

4.5

1991

The Bonfire of the Vanities

D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)

5.6

1990

Drums of Fire

Osrain

6.5

1990

The Little Match Girl

Narrator (voice)

0.0

1990

Cadence

Capt. Ramon Garcia

6.7

1990

A Season of Giants

5.0

1988

La rosa dei nomi

Self

7.5

1987

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

Self

8.0

1986

The Name of the Rose

Bernardo Gui

7.5

1986

Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier

Goldstein

5.0

1984

Amadeus

Antonio Salieri

8.0

1984

Scarface

Omar

8.2

1983

The Big Fix

Eppis

5.6

1978

Madman

Marco Cohen

6.0

1978

Sex and the Married Woman

Duke Skaggs

1.0

1977

The Ritz

Chris

6.1

1976

All the President's Men

Arresting Officer #1

7.7

1976

The Sunshine Boys

Mechanic

6.8

1975

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Taxi Driver

6.7

1975

Serpico

Detective Partner (uncredited)

7.5

1973

Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

Herman Melville

0.0

White House Plumbers

Judge John Sirica · (2 episodes)

6.2

2023

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

Dr. Carl Winters · (1 episode)

7.6

2022

Moon Knight

Khonshu (voice) · (6 episodes)

7.7

2022

The White Lotus

Bert Di Grasso · (7 episodes)

7.6

2021

Mythic Quest

C.W. Longbottom · (20 episodes)

7.3

2020

Okavango: River of Dreams

vypravěč · (4 episodes)

8.5

2019

Chimerica

Frank Sams · (4 episodes)

5.8

2019

The Orville

Chairman · (1 episode)

7.6

2017

Road to 9/11

Himself - Narrator · (3 episodes)

8.5

2017

The Good Fight

Burl Preston · (1 episode)

7.6

2017

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

(1 episode)

6.6

2015

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self · (1 episode)

5.8

2014

Beauty and the Beast

Cyril · (13 episodes)

7.4

2012

Elementary

Daniel Gottlieb · (1 episode)

7.6

2012

Beauty and the Beast

Cyril

0.0

2012

Homeland

Dar Adal · (37 episodes)

7.6

2011

Blue Bloods

Leon Goodwin · (1 episode)

7.8

2010

The Good Wife

Burl Preston · (4 episodes)

7.6

2009

L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII

Nathan · (2 episodes)

0.0

2007

Quiet Flows the Don

Pantaley · (7 episodes)

9.0

2006

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Theodore Nichols · (1 episode)

7.6

2001

The Hire

Airport Guru · (1 episode)

7.6

2001

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Ayatollah · (1 episode)

8.0

2000

Noah's Ark

Lot · (2 episodes)

4.2

1999

Dead Man's Walk

Caleb Cobb · (3 episodes)

6.0

1996

I promessi sposi

l'Innominato · (5 episodes)

6.4

1989

American Experience

Narrator · (1 episode)

7.5

1988

Dream West

President Abraham Lincoln · (3 episodes)

5.0

1986

Marco Polo

Jacopo · (6 episodes)

6.8

1982

Nature

Narrator (voice) · (25 episodes)

8.1

1982

A.E.S. Hudson Street

(6 episodes)

7.2

1978

The Andros Targets

Bobby Carr · (1 episode)

5.0

1977

NOVA

Narrator · (1 episode)

6.9

1974

Kojak

Solly Nurse · (2 episodes)

6.9

1973

Kojak

Eddie Gordon · (1 episode)

6.9

1973

They Might Be Giants

Clyde (the usher)

6.9

1971

All in the Family

Clerk · (1 episode)

7.8

1971