F. Murray Abraham
Known for: Acting
Born: October 24, 1939
Place of birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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Filmography
134 movies · 38 TV shows, newest first
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Bookends
2026
NR
This Ordinary Thing
2025
7.3
Marvel Zombies
2025
7.3
Milarepa
2025
6.5
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
NR
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
2025
5.6
Mother, Couch
2024
5.3
Double Soul
2023
6.2
White House Plumbers
2023
7.5
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022
6.3
The Magic Flute
2022
NR
The Siege of Vienna
2022
2.0
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
6.8
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022
7.6
Moon Knight
2022
7.6
The White Lotus
2021
5.7
Things Heard & Seen
2021
7.2
Mythic Quest
2020
7.2
Lady and the Tramp
2019
8.3
Okavango: River of Dreams
2019
5.7
Chimerica
2019
6.6
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019
7.8
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
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The Letter
2018
5.9
Robin Hood
2018
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Super Cats
2018
6.4
Every Act of Life
2018
7.8
Isle of Dogs
2018
7.6
The Orville
2017
8.5
Road to 9/11
2017
7.6
The Good Fight
2017
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
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411
2015
6.5
A Little Game
2014
6.7
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014
8.0
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
5.2
The Mystery of Dante
2014
7.2
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
3.0
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
2013
6.5
Love, Marilyn
2013
6.2
Dead Man Down
2013
6.1
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2012
4.3
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
2012
7.4
Beauty and the Beast
2012
7.6
Elementary
2012NR
The Unseen World
2012
7.6
Homeland
2011
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Is That Skunk?
2011
7.8
Blue Bloods
2010NR
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
2010
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Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
2010
7.0
In the Valley of the Wolves
2010
5.2
Barbarossa
2009
6.5
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
7.6
The Good Wife
2009
7.2
Bored to Death
2009
3.8
Perestroika
2009
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The Dragon Chronicles
2009
5.9
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
2008
5.3
Shark Swarm
2008
7.3
Language of the Enemy
2008
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Ballerina
2008NR
The Beauty of Ugly
2007
NR
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
2007
5.5
Blood Monkey
2007
7.4
Saving Grace
2007
3.0
Come le formiche
2007
4.8
The Final Inquiry
2007
5.0
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
2007
4.3
Quiet Flows The Don
2006
7.5
Quiet Flows the Don
2006
4.1
The Stone Merchant
2006
8.0
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
2006
3.8
40 Years of Star Trek
2006
5.2
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
10.0
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
2004
6.7
My Father
2003
6.8
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
2003
8.0
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
2003
5.7
Five Moons Plaza
2003
6.7
Ticker
2002
7.6
The Making of 'Amadeus'
2002
6.5
Joshua
2002
6.3
Thir13en Ghosts
2001
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
7.6
The Hire
2001
4.9
Knights of the Quest
2001
7.0
Un dono semplice
2000
7.1
Finding Forrester
2000
8.1
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
5.0
The Darkling
2000
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The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
6.3
Excellent Cadavers
1999
6.1
Muppets from Space
1999
4.5
Noah's Ark
1999
6.8
Esther
1999
4.5
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
1999
6.5
Star Trek: Insurrection
1998
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Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
1998
7.5
Vacation in Hell
19976.0
Einstein Revealed
1997
5.2
Color of Justice
1997
6.1
Mimic
1997
5.0
Eruption
1997
5.6
Children of the Revolution
1996
9.0
Puma: Lion of the Andes
1996
6.8
Looking for Richard
1996
6.0
Dead Man's Walk
1996
6.8
Baby Face Nelson
1996
6.7
Mighty Aphrodite
1995
5.2
Dillinger and Capone
1995
5.8
Nostradamus
1994
7.2
Fresh
1994
6.2
Surviving the Game
1994
3.6
L'Affaire
1994
9.0
Jamila
19944.7
Sweet Killing
1993
4.4
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1993
6.5
Last Action Hero
1993
6.1
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
NR
Through an Open Window
1992
5.0
The First Circle
1992
3.4
Eye of the Widow
1991
6.1
By the Sword
1991
6.3
Mobsters
1991
5.5
Money
1991
5.6
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
6.1
Drums of Fire
1990
7.0
The Little Match Girl
1990
6.7
Cadence
1990
7.7
A Season of Giants
1990
9.0
Performance Pieces
19908.0
Largo Desolato
1990
7.1
I promessi sposi
1989
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The Making of Slipstream
1989
6.2
An Innocent Man
1989
4.6
The Favorite
1989
4.3
Slipstream
1989
5.1
Beyond the Stars
1989
7.5
Il Trovatore
1988
NR
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
1988
6.5
American Experience
1988
4.7
The Third Solution
1988
5.8
La rosa dei nomi
19876.7
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
7.5
The Name of the Rose
1986
6.0
Dream West
1986
7.0
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
1985
7.0
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
1984
8.0
Amadeus
1984
8.2
Scarface
1983
6.8
Marco Polo
1982
7.9
Nature
1982
5.8
The Big Fix
1978
7.2
A.E.S. Hudson Street
1978
8.0
Madman
1978
4.0
Sex and the Married Woman
1977
7.0
The Andros Targets
1977
6.0
The Ritz
1976
7.7
All the President's Men
1976
6.9
The Sunshine Boys
1975
6.7
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975
7.0
NOVA
1974
7.5
Serpico
1973
7.2
Kojak
1973
7.0
They Might Be Giants
1971
7.8
All in the Family
1971NR
Dead Lawyers
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Out of This World
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Time Out
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Sharkland
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