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.
F. Murray Abraham Biography / Wiki
| Name | F. Murray Abraham |
| Also Know | Frank Murray Abraham, Murray Abraham, F. ë¨¸ë ˆì´ ì•„ë¸Œë¼í•¨ |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Date of Birth | October 24, 1939 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 83 |
| Deathday |
F. Murray Abraham Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Amadeus | Antonio Salieri | 1984-09-19 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antoni… |
| Blood Monkey | Professor Hamilton | 2007-09-24 | Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after setting up camp in a jungle clearing, they soon b… |
| By the Sword | Suba | 1991-10-07 | A mysterious man, Suba, gets himself a job at a fencing academy, and as he learns the way of the students, the school, and its maestro, they learn tha… |
| The Favorite | Abdul Hamid | 1989-08-09 | A French girl is kidnapped and sold as slave to the sultan of the Ottoman Empire…. |
| Einstein Revealed | Narrator | 1997-09-09 | NOVA biography of Albert Einstein, covering his early years, relativity research and personal life…. |
| Goltzius & the Pelican Company | The Margrave | 2012-09-30 | Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary … |
| Day of the Siege | Marco D’Aviano | 2012-10-11 | Storyline: In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire’s warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City’s fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The S… |
| Largo Desolato | Professor Leopold Nettles | 1990-04-20 | A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one… |
| The Mystery of Dante | Dante Alter Ego | 2014-02-14 | A journey in the footsteps of the most famous initiate of Italian Trecento, the author of the celebrated “Divine Comedy”. A poet who has inspired some… |
| Eye of the Widow | Kharoun | 1991-10-17 | A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. Th… |
| Nature Amazing Places Hawaii | Narrates Program One | 2010-04-20 | Program One KILAUEA: MOUNTAIN OF FIRE Ecosystems on Big Island Face No Small Challenge Kilauea, violent and beautiful, destructive and creative, con… |
| A Season of Giants | Papa Giulio II | 1991-11-04 | … |
| The Darkling | Bruno Rubin | 2000-08-15 | When mechanic Jeff Obold meets the wealthy and mysterious Bruno Rubin, he is exposed for the first time to the finer things in life. But Jeff soon dis… |
| Okavango: River of Dreams | Narrator | 2019-10-23 | Experience the wildlife of the Okavango Delta, an oasis and lush paradise in Southern Africa that connects a wide array of creatures. Lions chase elep… |
| Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air | 2010-01-10 | Hummingbirds are the tiniest of birds, yet they are some of the toughest, most energetic creatures on the planet. Their unique flying abilities give t… | |
| In the Valley of the Wolves | Narrator | 2010-01-01 | In 1995, the first gray wolves were transported from Alberta, Canada to Yellowstone National Park, to repopulate the sprawling landscape with the spec… |
| The Dragon Chronicles | Narrator | 2009-01-11 | PBS Nature…. |
| Nature: The Beauty of Ugly | Narrator | 2007-11-18 | In the animal world, as in our own, looks aren’t everything. In fact, some of the most aesthetically challenged creatures — from warthogs and prob… |
| The Great San Francisco Earthquake | Narrator | 1988-10-04 | An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild…. |
| The Unseen World | John Henry Newman | 2012-06-01 | The film documents John Henry Newman’s spirituality and influence on his contemporaries in Victorian England…. |
| The Little Match Girl | Narrator (voice) | 1990-12-06 | The Hans Christian Andersen classic is given present-day relevance and an upbeat ending in this story of Angela, a homeless child who sells match stic… |
| Is That Skunk? | Narrator | 2011-08-28 | An in-depth look into the life of a skunk. Explores far more than their ability to make a stink…. |
| The Siege of Vienna | 2022-09-01 | THE SIEGE OF VIENNA. SEPTEMBER 11,1683. THE BATTLE THAT SAVED CHRISTIANITY IN THE WEST. DVD This epic film tells the powerful true story of one of the… | |
| The Name of the Rose | Bernardo Gui | 1986-09-24 | 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under my… |
| Perestroika | Professor Gross | 2009-03-20 | Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his … |
| An Innocent Man | Virgil Cane | 1989-10-06 | Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a maj… |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Viceroy of Peru | 2004-01-01 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder’s second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of seve… |
| Nostradamus | Scalinger | 1994-08-18 | A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, afte… |
| Joshua | Father Tardone | 2002-04-19 | When Joshua moves to the outskirts of Auburn, he awakens the curiosity of the sleepy town. They don’t know who he is or where he came from, but no o… |
| Excellent Cadavers | Tommaso Buscetta | 1999-10-16 | Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthl… |
| Sweet Killing | Zargo | 1993-10-20 | A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell…. |
| Too Much Romance… It’s Time for Stuffed Peppers | Jeffrey | 2004-11-14 | After a long marriage, Maria and Jeffrey are now in crisis. Trying to keep the family together, she tries to convince their children to attend the bir… |
| Color of Justice | Jim Sullivan | 1997-09-07 | Four young black men kill a white woman. Now the D.A. is very cautious how to pursue this case because it might start a riot. And adding fuel to the f… |
| My Father | Paul Minsky | 2004-10-12 | A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments… |
| Dillinger and Capone | Al Capone | 1995-01-01 | In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago’s Biograph theater. But in fa… |
| L’affaire | Lucien Haslans | 1994-04-13 | A man who had everything taken away from him, including his family, by his brother teams up with a young card player in order to take revenge on the b… |
| The Third Solution | Father Carafa | 1988-04-08 | The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. Bu… |
| Vacation in Hell | Belisario | 1997-12-31 | Italian man unknowingly becomes a drug mule and gets arrested in Thailand. He is sent to tough prison where he plans escape with the help of another p… |
| Every Act of Life | Self | 2018-04-23 | The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay righ… |
| Come le formiche | Ruggero | 2007-06-22 | … |
| 411 | Information (voice) | 2015-01-01 | After a car accident, a skeptical New Yorker must call for help on a mysterious pay phone that responds only to ‘411’. He gets Information, and in a t… |
| Ballerina | 2008-01-01 | … | |
| The Magic Flute | Dr. Longbow | 2022-11-17 | 17-year-old Tim Walker as he travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-… |
| Stato d’emergenza – Il caso Dozier | Goldstein | 1984-09-23 | … |
| Finding Forrester | Robert Crawford | 2000-12-21 | Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accide… |
| Esther | Mordechai | 1999-03-29 | Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre…. |
| A House Divided | Grandfather Wahid | 2008-01-01 | An American Jewish man visiting Jerusalem for the funeral of his father gets sucked into a world of violent intrigue after meeting a mysterious, beaut… |
| Children of the Revolution | Josef ‘Uncle Joe’ Stalin | 1996-12-26 | A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951…. |
| Quiet Flows The Don | Pantaley | 2006-11-07 | With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it’s an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthl… |
| Madman | Marco Cohen | 1978-01-01 | Killing as many commies as he can is the goal of a hatred consumed private in the Israeli Army. The memory of his torture in a Russian mental hospital… |
| The Gambler Who Wouldn’t Die | 2013-05-31 | Elderly Italian who immigrated to Canada after killing a famous soccer player in a car accident must pay off his gambling debts by agreeing to become … | |
| The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy | Prof. Covington | 1999-01-27 | Bronson Pinchot does a nice job imitating Stan Laurel and Gailard Sartain gives a good appearance as Oliver Hardy, but the imitation does not extend t… |
| A Little Game | Norman Wallach | 2014-04-26 | Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in t… |
| Ticker | Airport Guru | 2002-11-07 | The Driver drives a wounded diplomat, who carries a mysterious briefcase, while under helicopter attack. During the attack the briefcase is struck by … |
| MiloÅ¡ Forman – What Doesn’t Kill You… | Self | 2009-10-08 | … |
| How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Grimmel (voice) | 2019-01-03 | As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When … |
| Five Moons Plaza | Entita | 2003-05-09 | Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. As the District Attorney takes o… |
| Mighty Aphrodite | Chorleiter | 1995-09-13 | When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy’s biological mother i… |
| Last Action Hero | John Practice | 1993-06-18 | Following the death of his father, young Danny Madigan takes comfort in watching action movies featuring the indestructible Los Angeles cop Jack Slate… |
| The Stone Merchant | Shahid | 2006-09-15 | The Merchant (Harvey Keitel) is a Westerner. A merchant dealing in precious stones from Afganistan and Turkey. He’s above suspicion. In truth, the “St… |
| Shark Swarm | Professor Bill Girdler | 2008-01-01 | A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area’s sharks into bl… |
| Baby Face Nelson | Al Capone | 1996-01-25 | Bonnie and Clyde were no match for Depression Era gangster George “Babyface” Nelson and his moll Helen Womack. Constantly on the lam from the law and … |
| The First Circle | Stalin | 1992-02-25 | In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante’s Inferno), a spec… |
| The Making of ‘Amadeus’ | Himself – Salieri | 2002-09-24 | This riveting film takes a look behind the scenes at one of the 20th century’s cinema classics and at one of contemporary cinema’s most maddeningly br… |
| Jamila | Older Seit | 1994-01-01 | In the 1940s, young Kirghiz boy falls hopelessly for Jamilla, but their love has no future…. |
| Le nom de la rose : Le documentaire | 2004-06-16 | A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film “The Name of the Rose”…. | |
| The Big Fix | Eppis | 1978-10-06 | Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is re… |
| The Ritz | Chris | 1976-06-17 | On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci’s father tells him to “get Proclo”. With “the hit” on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can’t fin… |
| Eruption | President Mendoza | 1997-01-01 | Sam Hunter, an American photojournalist, is ostensibly covering the Pope’s visit to the South American country of San Pedro. But Sam’s real goal is to… |
| Try to Remember: The Fantasticks | Himself | 2003-05-14 | On the eve of the final Off-Broadway performance of the long-running musical “The Fantasticks,” filmmaker Eli Kabillio takes a wistful look back at th… |
| Carnera: The Walking Mountain | Leon See | 2008-05-09 | The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. “Ambling Alp”, Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also ac… |
| Barbarossa | Siniscalco Barozzi | 2009-10-09 | Year 1100. Italy.The Northern lands are ruled by a German emperor: Fredrick aka “Barbarossa. His dream is to conquer also the lands in the Center and … |
| Surviving the Game | Wolfe Sr. | 1994-04-15 | A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who h… |
| Drums of Fire | Osrain | 1990-12-21 | … |
| Beyond the Stars | Dr. Harry Bertram – the Whale Man | 1989-01-01 | Teenager Eric, the son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon, is determined to become an as… |
| 40 Years of Star Trek | Himself | 2006-01-01 | The Space Channel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the original STAR TREK. Produced by Mark Askwith, hosted by Jonathan Llyr and featuring interview… |
| Scarface | Omar Suarez | 1983-12-09 | After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciousl… |
| Knights of the Quest | Delfinello da Coverzano | 2001-04-06 | … |
| The Sunshine Boys | Mechanic | 1975-11-06 | Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn’t stand each other and haven’t spok… |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | Bud Grossman | 2013-10-13 | In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future…. |
| The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco’s ‘The Name of the Rose’ | Self | 1986-10-11 | A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s classic “The Name of … |
| Mimic | Dr. Gates | 1997-08-22 | A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutan… |
| Slipstream | Cornelius | 1989-06-22 | Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction th… |
| Money | Will Scarlet | 1991-04-06 | A young man whose father’s fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world’s major financial cente… |
| Thir13en Ghosts | Cyrus Kriticos | 2001-10-26 | Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus’s estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, a… |
| Inside ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ | Self | 2014-03-11 | A 42-minute making-of documentary, “Inside ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,'” produced and directed by David Prior. A number of cast and key crew people are inte… |
| Robin Hood | Cardinal | 2018-11-21 | A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown…. |
| Star Trek: Insurrection | Ad’har Ru’afo | 1998-12-11 | When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has “regenerative” properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and th… |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | Old Zero Moustafa | 2014-02-26 | The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becom… |
| Muppets from Space | Noah | 1999-07-14 | When Gonzo’s breakfast cereal tells him that he’s the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him… |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Professor Harlech | 1993-07-01 | This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne’s novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrat… |
| The Final Inquiry | Nathan | 2007-04-02 | It is the year 33 of the Vulgar Era. The Emperor Tiberius is troubled by strange phenomena, an earthquake and the sky turning black as an eclipse. His… |
| Things Heard & Seen | Floyd DeBeers | 2021-04-29 | Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a j… |
| Dead Man Down | Gregor | 2013-03-08 | In New York City, a crime lord’s right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution…. |
| Mobsters | Arnold Rothstein | 1991-07-26 | The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime….. |
| They Might Be Giants | Clyde (the usher) | 1971-06-09 | Every hero has a weakness, and Sherlock Holmes’ weakness was Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve mysteries and search for Moriarty in 1970s… |
| Il Trovatore | Self – Host | 1988-10-15 | Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manrico, the ardent troubadour, trapped in … |
| Sex and the Married Woman | Duke Skaggs | 1977-09-13 | A suburban housewife writes a novel based on her neighbors’ sex lives. It becomes a runaway best seller, but causes no end of trouble in her marriage … |
| La rosa dei nomi | Self | 1987-01-01 | … |
| Love, Marilyn | Self | 2013-05-30 | Using the book ‘Fragments’, which collects Marilyn Monroe’s poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote … |
| Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail | Ayatollah (archive footage) | 2019-01-08 | An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered… |
| The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Taxi Driver | 1975-03-14 | Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave…. |
| All the President’s Men | Arresting Officer #1 | 1976-01-18 | During the 1972 elections, two reporters’ investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from… |
| Looking for Richard | Self | 1996-10-11 | Al Pacino’s deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare’s significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of “Ric… |
| Lady and the Tramp | Tony | 2019-11-12 | The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out on the street after her owner… |
| Cadence | Capt. Ramon Garcia | 1990-11-16 | As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of fa… |
| National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 | Harold Leacher | 1993-02-04 | An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before the… |
| Isle of Dogs | Jupiter (voice) | 2018-03-23 | In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that’s a garbage dump. The outcasts must s… |
| And the Oscar Goes To… | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
| Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight | Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2022-05-25 | Join the likes of Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight was painstakingly brought to life. Through insightful int… |
| Fresh | Chess Hustler | 1994-06-15 | Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with … |
| Serpico | Detective Partner (uncredited) | 1973-12-18 | Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. His actions get Frank shunned by the other … |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited) | 1990-12-21 | After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and … |
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