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.

Filmography

• 2026Bookends — Saul Cohen
• Marvel Zombies — Khonshu (voice)
• 2025Milarepa — Oyun
• 2025The Phoenician Scheme — Prophet
• 2024Mother, Couch — Marcus / Marco
• 2023Double Soul — Mentor
• White House Plumbers — Judge John Sirica
• Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities — Dr. Carl Winters
• 2022Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight — Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Moon Knight — Khonshu (voice)
• 2022The Magic Flute — Dr. Longbow
• 2022The Siege of Vienna
• The White Lotus — Bert Di Grasso
• 2021Things Heard & Seen — Floyd DeBeers
• Mythic Quest — C.W. Longbottom
• Chimerica — Frank Sams
• 2019How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World — Grimmel (voice)
• 2019Lady and the Tramp — Tony
• Okavango: River of Dreams — Narrator (voice)
• 2019Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail — Ayatollah (archive footage)
• 2018Isle of Dogs — Jupiter (voice)
• 2018Robin Hood — Cardinal
• 2018Super Cats — Narrator (voice)
• 2018The Letter — Narrator
• The Good Fight — Burl Preston
• The Orville — Chairman
• 2015411 — Information (voice)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
• 2014A Little Game — Norman Wallach
• 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel — Mr. Moustafa
• 2014The Mystery of Dante — Dante Alter Ego
• 2013Dead Man Down — Gregor
• 2013Inside Llewyn Davis — Bud Grossman
• 2013The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die — Braque
• Beauty and the Beast — Cyril
• Elementary — Daniel Gottlieb
• 2012Goltzius & the Pelican Company — The Margrave
• 2012The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 — Marco D'Aviano
• 2012The Unseen World — John Henry Newman
• Homeland — Dar Adal
• 2011Is That Skunk? — Narrator
• Blue Bloods — Leon Goodwin
• 2010Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
• 2010In the Valley of the Wolves — Narrator
• 2010Nature Amazing Places Hawaii — Narrates Program One
• 2009Barbarossa — Siniscalco Barozzi
• Bored to Death — Professor Richard Hawkes
• 2009Perestroika — Professor Gross
• 2009The Dragon Chronicles — Narrator
• The Good Wife — Burl Preston
• 2008Ballerina — Goran
• 2008Carnera: The Walking Mountain — Leon See
• 2008Language of the Enemy — Grandfather Wahid
• 2008Shark Swarm — Professor Bill Girdler
• 2007Blood Monkey — Professor Hamilton
• 2007Come le formiche — Ruggero
• L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII — Nathan
• 2007Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America — Narrator
• Saving Grace — Matthew
• 2007The Final Inquiry — Nathan
• 2006Quiet Flows The Don — Pantaley
• Quiet Flows the Don — Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
• 2006The Stone Merchant — Shahid
• 2006Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers — Jeffrey
• 2004Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
• 2004The Bridge of San Luis Rey — Viceroy of Peru
• 2003Five Moons Plaza — Entita
• Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites — Readings (Voice)
• 2003My Father — Paul Minsky
• 2002Joshua — Father Tardone
• 2002Ticker — Airport Guru
• 2001Knights of the Quest — Delfinello da Coverzano
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Theodore Nichols
• The Hire — Airport Guru
• 2001Thir13en Ghosts — Cyrus
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Ayatollah
• 2000Finding Forrester — Robert Crawford
• 2000The Darkling — Bruno Rubin
• 2000Un dono semplice — Thomas Barlow
• 1999Esther — Mordechai
• 1999Excellent Cadavers — Tommaso Buscetta
• 1999Muppets from Space — Noah
• Noah's Ark — Lot
• 1999The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy — Professor Henry Covington
• 1998Star Trek: Insurrection — Ad'har Ru'afo
• 1997Color of Justice — Jim Sullivan
• 1997Einstein Revealed — Narrator
• 1997Eruption — President Mendoza
• 1997Mimic — Dr. Gates
• 1997Vacation in Hell — Belisario
• 1996Baby Face Nelson — Al Capone
• 1996Children of the Revolution — Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
• Dead Man's Walk — Caleb Cobb
• 1996Puma: Lion of the Andes — Narrator (voice)
• 1995Dillinger and Capone — Al Capone
• 1995Mighty Aphrodite — Chorleiter
• 1994Fresh — Chess Hustler
• 1994Jamila — Older Seit
• 1994L'Affaire — Lucien Haslans
• 1994Nostradamus — Scalinger
• 1994Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier — Goldstein
• 1994Surviving the Game — Wolfe, Sr.
• 1993Journey to the Center of the Earth — Professor Harlech
• 1993Last Action Hero — John Practice
• 1993National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 — Harold Leacher
• 1993Sweet Killing — Zargo
• 1992The First Circle — Stalin
• 1992Through an Open Window — Narrator
• 1991By the Sword — Suba
• 1991Eye of the Widow — Kharoun
• 1991Mobsters — Arnold Rothstein
• 1991Money — Will Scarlet
• 1990A Season of Giants — Papa Giulio II
• A Season of Giants — Papa Giulio II
• 1990Cadence — Capt. Ramon Garcia
• 1990Drums of Fire — Osrain
• 1990Largo Desolato — Professor Leopold Nettles
• 1990Performance Pieces — Jack Narwhal
• 1990The Bonfire of the Vanities — D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
• 1990The Little Match Girl — Narrator (voice)
• 1989An Innocent Man — Virgil Cane
• 1989Beyond the Stars — Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
• I promessi sposi — l'Innominato
• 1989Slipstream — Cornelius
• 1989The Favorite — Abdul Hamid
• 1989The Making of Slipstream
• 1988The Third Solution — Father Carafa
• Dream West — President Abraham Lincoln
• 1986The Name of the Rose — Bernardo Gui
• 1985Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise — Herman Melville
• 1984Amadeus — Antonio Salieri
• 1983Scarface — Omar
• Marco Polo — Jacopo
• Nature — Narrator (voice)
• A.E.S. Hudson Street
• 1978Madman — Marco Cohen
• 1978The Big Fix — Eppis
• 1977Sex and the Married Woman — Duke Skaggs
• The Andros Targets — Bobby Carr
• 1976All the President's Men — Arresting Officer #1
• 1976The Ritz — Chris
• 1975The Prisoner of Second Avenue — Taxi Driver
• 1975The Sunshine Boys — Mechanic
• NOVA — Narrator
• Kojak — Solly Nurse, Eddie Gordon
• 1973Serpico — Detective Partner (uncredited)
• All in the Family — Clerk
• 1971They Might Be Giants — Clyde (the usher)
• Dead Lawyers
• Out of This World
• Sharkland — Narrator
• Time Out

Appearances as themselves (21)

• 2025Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece — Himself
• 2025This Ordinary Thing — Self (voice)
• 2022An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Every Act of Life — Self
• Road to 9/11 — Self - Narrator
• 2014Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013Love, Marilyn — Self
• 2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… — Self
• 2007The Beauty of Ugly — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 200640 Years of Star Trek — Self
• 2003Try to Remember: The Fantasticks — Self
• 2002The Making of 'Amadeus' — Self - Salieri
• 2000The Directors: Milos Forman — Self
• 1998Waiting for Godot in San Quentin — Himself
• 1996Looking for Richard — Self
• American Experience — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1988Il Trovatore — Self - Host
• 1988The Great San Francisco Earthquake — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1987La rosa dei nomi — Self
• 1986The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' — Self