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F. Murray Abraham is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning an Oscar for his leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film Amadeus (1984). Abraham also won a Golden Globe and received a BAFTA Award nomination for the role.
Birth Name
Murray Abraham
Born
Tuesday, 24 October 1939
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Mother Couch | Marcus / Marco | 2024 |
| Double Soul | Mentor | 2023 |
| White House Plumbers | Judge John Sirica | 2023 |
| Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities | Dr. Carl Winters | 2022 |
| The Magic Flute | Dr. Longbow | 2022 |
| Moon Knight | Khonshu / Khonshu (voice) | 2022 |
| The White Lotus | Bert Di Grasso | 2021 |
| Things Heard & Seen | Floyd DeBeers | 2021 |
| Mythic Quest | C.W. Longbottom | 2020 |
| Okavango: River of Dreams - Director's Cut | Narrator | 2020 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Mother Couch | Marcus / Marco | 2024 |
| Double Soul | Mentor | 2023 |
| White House Plumbers | Judge John Sirica | 2023 |
| Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities | Dr. Carl Winters | 2022 |
| The Magic Flute | Dr. Longbow | 2022 |
| Moon Knight | Khonshu / Khonshu (voice) | 2022 |
| The White Lotus | Bert Di Grasso | 2021 |
| Things Heard & Seen | Floyd DeBeers | 2021 |
| Mythic Quest | C.W. Longbottom | 2020 |
| Okavango: River of Dreams - Director's Cut | Narrator | 2020 |
| Lady and the Tramp | Tony | 2019 |
| Okavango: River of Dreams | Self - Narrator | 2019 |
| The Movies | Antonio Salieri / Self | 2019 |
| Chimerica | Frank Sams | 2019 |
| How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Grimmel / Grimmel (voice) | 2019 |
| Robin Hood | Cardinal | 2018 |
| Every Act of Life | Himself / Self | 2018 |
| Isle of Dogs | Jupiter (voice) / Jupiter | 2018 |
| The Orville | Chairman | 2017 |
| Road to 9/11 | Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator | 2017 |
| The Good Fight | Burl Preston | 2017 |
| Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story | Narrator | 2016 |
| 411 | Information (voice) | 2015 |
| A Little Game | Norman Wallach | 2014 |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | Mr. Moustafa / Old Zero Moustafa | 2014 |
| The Mystery of Dante | Dante Alter Ego | 2014 |
| And the Oscar Goes to... | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | Bud Grossman | 2013 |
| The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die | Braque | 2013 |
| Goltzius and The Pelican Company | The Margrave | 2013 |
| Inside Amy Schumer | Diplomat | 2013 |
| Dead Man Down | Gregor | 2013 |
| The Broadway.com Show | Self | 2013 |
| Do No Harm | Cozar | 2013 |
| Love, Marilyn | Self - Reader / Self | 2013 |
| Day of the Siege | Marco D'Aviano | 2012 |
| Beauty and the Beast | Cyril | 2012 |
| Elementary | Daniel Gottlieb | 2012 |
| Homeland | Dar Adal | 2011 |
| The Presence of Joseph Chaikin | Self | 2011 |
| The Unseen World | John Henry Newman | 2010 |
| Blue Bloods | Leon Goodwin | 2010 |
| Louie | Jonathan / Louie's Dad / Uncle Excelsior | 2010 |
| MindFlux | Self | 2010 |
| Sword of War | Siniscalco Barozzi | 2009 |
| Milos Forman: What doesn't kill you... | Self | 2009 |
| The Good Wife | Burl Preston | 2009 |
| Bored to Death | Professor Richard Hawkes | 2009 |
| Last Dance | Self - Reader | 2009 |
| Perestroika | Professor Gross / Prof. Gross | 2009 |
| Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Himself - Guest | 2009 |
| Carnera: The Walking Mountain | Leon See | 2008 |
| Ballerina | Goran | 2008 |
| Shark Swarm | Professor Bill Girdler | 2008 |
| Language of the Enemy | Grandfather Wahid | 2008 |
| Blood Monkey | Professor Hamilton / Hamilton | 2007 |
| Saving Grace | Matthew | 2007 |
| Wine and Kisses | Ruggero | 2007 |
| The Final Inquiry | Nathan | 2006 |
| The Stone Merchant | Shahid | 2006 |
| Operation Lysistrata | Self | 2006 |
| Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
| Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers | Jeffrey | 2004 |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Viceroy of Peru | 2004 |
| Pompeii: The Last Day | Narrator | 2003 |
| My Father | Paul Minsky | 2003 |
| Try to Remember: The Fantasticks | Himself / Self | 2003 |
| Five Moons Plaza | Entita / Entita' | 2003 |
| Ticker | Airport Guru | 2002 |
| The Making of 'Amadeus' | Self / Himself - Salieri | 2002 |
| Joshua | Father Tardone | 2002 |
| Thir13en Ghosts | Cyrus Kriticos | 2001 |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Dr. Theodore Nichols | 2001 |
| The Knights of the Quest | Delfinello da Coverzano | 2001 |
| Finding Forrester | Prof. Robert Crawford / Crawford | 2000 |
| Il caso Dozier | Goldstein | 2000 |
| Die Zauberflöte | Self - Host (only for TV) | 2000 |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm | Ayatollah | 2000 |
| The Darkling | Bruno Rubin | 2000 |
| Excellent Cadavers | Tommaso Buscetta | 1999 |
| Muppets from Space | Noah | 1999 |
| Noah's Ark | Lot | 1999 |
| Esther | Mordecai / Mordechai | 1999 |
| The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in 'for Love or Mummy' | Prof. Henry Covington / Prof. Covington | 1999 |
| The Directors | Self - Interviewee | 1999 |
| Star Trek: Insurrection | Ru'afo / Ad'har Ru'afo | 1998 |
| Color of Justice | Jim Sullivan | 1997 |
| Mimic | Dr. Gates | 1997 |
| Eruption | President Mendoza | 1997 |
| Children of the Revolution | Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin / Stalin | 1996 |
| Theater Talk | Self - Guest | 1996 |
| Einstein Revealed | Narrator | 1996 |
| Looking for Richard | Himself / Self | 1996 |
| Dead Man's Walk | Caleb Cobb | 1996 |
| Baby Face Nelson | Al Capone | 1996 |
| Mighty Aphrodite | Leader / Chorleiter | 1995 |
| Dillinger and Capone | Al Capone | 1995 |
| Nostradamus | Scalinger | 1994 |
| Fresh | Chess Hustler | 1994 |
| Surviving the Game | Wolfe Sr. | 1994 |
| Jamila | Older Seit | 1994 |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Himself | 1993 |
| Last Action Hero | John Practice | 1993 |
| Sweet Killing | Zargo | 1993 |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Professor Harlech | 1993 |
| Loaded Weapon 1 | Harold Leacher | 1993 |
| HBO First Look | Self | 1992 |
| Oscar's Greatest Moments | Self | 1992 |
| Eye of the Widow | Kharoun | 1991 |
| By the Sword | Suba | 1991 |
| Mobsters | Arnold Rothstein | 1991 |
| Money | Will Scarlet | 1991 |
| La batalla de los Tres Reyes | Osrain | 1990 |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | D.A. Abe Weiss | 1990 |
| Cadence | Capt. Ramon Garcia | 1990 |
| A Season of Giants | Pope Julius II / Papa Giulio II | 1990 |
| Largo Desolato | Professor Leopold Nettles / Leopold Nettle | 1990 |
| I promessi sposi | l'Innominato | 1989 |
| The Betrothed | L'Innominato | 1989 |
| An Innocent Man | Virgil Cane | 1989 |
| The Favorite | Abdul Hamid | 1989 |
| Beyond the Stars | Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man / Dr. Harry Bertram | 1989 |
| Slipstream | Cornelius | 1989 |
| Galileo Galilei | 1989 | |
| American Experience | Narrator / Self | 1988 |
| The Third Solution | Father Carafa | 1988 |
| La rosa dei nomi | Self | 1987 |
| The Name of the Rose | Bernardo Gui | 1986 |
| Nightlife | Self | 1986 |
| Dream West | President Abraham Lincoln | 1986 |
| The 58th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Presenter | 1986 |
| The 57th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Winner | 1985 |
| Amadeus | Antonio Salieri | 1984 |
| Scarface | Omar / Omar Suárez | 1983 |
| Nature | Narrator / Self / Self - Narrator | 1982 |
| Marco Polo | Jacopo | 1982 |
| The Big Fix | Eppis | 1978 |
| Madman | Marco Cohen | 1978 |
| A.E.S. Hudson Street | Dr. Menzies | 1977 |
| The Andros Targets | Bobby Carr | 1977 |
| The Ritz | Chris | 1976 |
| All the President's Men | Arresting Officer #1 | 1976 |
| Working in the Theatre | Self | 1976 |
| The Sunshine Boys | Mechanic | 1975 |
| The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Taxi Driver | 1975 |
| Nova | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
| How to Survive a Marriage | Joshua T. Browne | 1974 |
| Serpico | Detective Partner | 1973 |
| Kojak | Eddie Gordon / Solly Nurse | 1973 |
| They Might Be Giants | Clyde (the usher) / Clyde | 1971 |
| All in the Family | Clerk | 1971 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself - Guest | 1962 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2023 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
| 2023 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2018 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2015 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated |
| 1985 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Won |
| 1985 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | Won |
