F. Murray Abraham

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-10-24 (86 years old)

Place of Birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

F. Murray Abraham

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 Broadw...

Acting

1983

Scarface

as Omar

1986

The Name of the Rose

as Bernardo Gui

1998

Star Trek: Insurrection

as Ad'har Ru'afo

1984

Amadeus

as Antonio Salieri

2000

Finding Forrester

as Robert Crawford

1999

Esther

as Mordechai

2003

1997

Mimic

as Dr. Gates

2008

A House Divided

as Grandfather Wahid

2000

The Darkling

as Bruno Rubin

1989

Slipstream

as Cornelius

1995

Mighty Aphrodite

as Chorleiter

2009

Perestroika

as Professor Gross

1990

The Bonfire of the Vanities

as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)

1993

Last Action Hero

as John Practice

1996

Children of the Revolution

as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin

2023

Double Soul

as Mentor

1989

An Innocent Man

as Virgil Cane

1978

The Big Fix

as Eppis

2007

Blood Monkey

as Professor Hamilton

1991

2006

2001

Knights of the Quest

as Delfinello da Coverzano

1976

The Ritz

as Chris

2009

Barbarossa

as Siniscalco Barozzi

2004

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as Viceroy of Peru

1975

1994

Surviving the Game

as Wolfe Sr.

1990

The Little Match Girl

as Narrator (voice)

1994

Nostradamus

as Scalinger

2002

Joshua

as Father Tardone

1999

Excellent Cadavers

as Tommaso Buscetta

1993

1989

The Favorite

as Abdul Hamid

1995

1997

1992

2013

Inside Llewyn Davis

as Bud Grossman

2008

Shark Swarm

as Professor Bill Girdler

2013

Dead Man Down

as Gregor

2013

2014

2006

2024

Mother, Couch

as Marcus / Marco

1978

Madman

as Marco Cohen

1991

Money

as Will Scarlet

1990

Largo Desolato

as Professor Leopold Nettles

2011

Is That Skunk?

as Narrator

1996

Baby Face Nelson

as Al Capone

1993

2014

The Mystery of Dante

as Dante Alter Ego

2001

Thir13en Ghosts

as Cyrus Kriticos

2022

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight

as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

1971

They Might Be Giants

as Clyde (the usher)

1991

Mobsters

as Arnold Rothstein

1990

A Season of Giants

as Papa Giulio II

1990

Cadence

as Capt. Ramon Garcia

1977

2018

The Letter

as Narrator

1991

1997

Eruption

as President Mendoza

1990

Drums of Fire

as Osrain

2014

A Little Game

as Norman Wallach

1992

2003

My Father

as Paul Minsky

2025

Milarepa

as Oyun

1997

Color of Justice

as Jim Sullivan

1973

Serpico

as Detective Partner (uncredited)

1976

All the President's Men

as Arresting Officer #1

2018

Super Cats

as Narrator (voice)

2002

Ticker

as Airport Guru

1994

L'Affaire

as Lucien Haslans

2010

Nature Amazing Places Hawaii

as Narrates Program One

2018

Isle of Dogs

as Jupiter (voice)

2000

1989

Beyond the Stars

as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man

2007

1994

Fresh

as Chess Hustler

1988

The Third Solution

as Father Carafa

1994

Jamila

as Older Seit

2002

The Making of 'Amadeus'

as Self - Salieri

1997

Vacation in Hell

as Belisario

2018

Robin Hood

as Cardinal

2007

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2019

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

as Ayatollah (archive footage)

2015

411

as Information (voice)

2009

2007

The Beauty of Ugly

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1988

Il Trovatore

as Self - Host

2008

Ballerina

as Goran

1987

1988

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2022

The Magic Flute

as Dr. Longbow

2021

Things Heard & Seen

as Floyd DeBeers

2012

The Unseen World

as John Henry Newman

-

Bookends

as Saul Cohen

2025

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