F. Murray Abraham
- Acting
- October 24, 1939 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
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
Filmography
- Bookends · Saul Cohen
- This Ordinary Thing · Self
- Marvel Zombies · Khonshu (Voice)
- Milarepa · Oyun
- The Phoenician Scheme · Prophet
- Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece · Self
- Mother, Couch · Marcus / Marco
- Double Soul · Mentor
- White House Plumbers · Judge John Sirica
- Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities · Dr. Carl Winters
- The Magic Flute · Dr. Longbow
- The Siege of Vienna
- An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose · Self
- Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight · Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Moon Knight · Khonshu (Voice)
- The White Lotus · Bert Di Grasso
- Things Heard & Seen · Floyd DeBeers
- Mythic Quest · C.W. Longbottom
- Lady and the Tramp · Tony
- Okavango: River of Dreams · Narrator (Voice)
- Chimerica · Frank Sams
- Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail · Ayatollah (archive footage)
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World · Grimmel (Voice)
- The Letter · Narrator
- Robin Hood · Cardinal
- Super Cats · Narrator (Voice)
- Every Act of Life · Self
- Isle of Dogs · Jupiter (Voice)
- The Orville · Chairman
- Road to 9/11 · Self
- The Good Fight · Burl Preston
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- 411 · Information (Voice)
- A Little Game · Norman Wallach
- Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' · Self
- The Grand Budapest Hotel · Mr. Moustafa
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- The Mystery of Dante · Dante Alter Ego
- Inside Llewyn Davis · Bud Grossman
- The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die · Braque
- Love, Marilyn · Self
- Dead Man Down · Gregor
- Goltzius & the Pelican Company · The Margrave
- The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 · Marco D'Aviano
- Beauty and the Beast · Cyril
- Elementary · Daniel Gottlieb
- The Unseen World · John Henry Newman
- Homeland · Dar Adal
- Is That Skunk? · Narrator
- Blue Bloods · Leon Goodwin
- Nature Amazing Places Hawaii · Narrates Program One
- Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
- In the Valley of the Wolves · Narrator
- Barbarossa · Siniscalco Barozzi
- Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… · Self
- The Good Wife · Burl Preston
- Bored to Death · Professor Richard Hawkes
- Perestroika · Professor Gross
- The Dragon Chronicles · Narrator
- Carnera: The Walking Mountain · Leon See
- Shark Swarm · Professor Bill Girdler
- Language of the Enemy · Grandfather Wahid
- Ballerina · Goran
- The Beauty of Ugly · Self
- Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America · Narrator
- Blood Monkey · Professor Hamilton
- Saving Grace · Matthew
- Come le formiche · Ruggero
- The Final Inquiry · Nathan
- L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII · Nathan
- Quiet Flows The Don · Pantaley
- Quiet Flows the Don · Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
- The Stone Merchant · Shahid
- Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers · Jeffrey
- 40 Years of Star Trek · Self
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey · Viceroy of Peru
- Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
- My Father · Paul Minsky
- Try to Remember: The Fantasticks · Self
- Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites · Readings (Voice)