F. Murray Abraham
Acting
- Born:
- 1939-10-24
- Place of birth:
- 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
This Ordinary Thing
Marvel Zombies
Milarepa
The Phoenician Scheme
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
Mother, Couch
Double Soul
White House Plumbers
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
The Magic Flute
The Siege of Vienna
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Moon Knight
The White Lotus
Things Heard & Seen
Mythic Quest
Lady and the Tramp
Okavango: River of Dreams
Chimerica
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The Letter
Robin Hood
Super Cats
Every Act of Life
Isle of Dogs
The Orville
Road to 9/11
The Good Fight
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
411
A Little Game
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Mystery of Dante
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
Love, Marilyn
Dead Man Down
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
Beauty and the Beast
Elementary
The Unseen World
Homeland
Is That Skunk?
Blue Bloods
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
In the Valley of the Wolves
Barbarossa
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
The Good Wife
Bored to Death
Perestroika
The Dragon Chronicles
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
Shark Swarm
Language of the Enemy
Ballerina
The Beauty of Ugly
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
Blood Monkey
Saving Grace
Come le formiche
The Final Inquiry
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Quiet Flows The Don
Quiet Flows the Don
The Stone Merchant
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
40 Years of Star Trek
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
My Father
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Five Moons Plaza
Ticker
The Making of 'Amadeus'
Joshua
Thir13en Ghosts
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Hire
Knights of the Quest
Un dono semplice
Finding Forrester
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Darkling
The Directors: Milos Forman
Excellent Cadavers
Muppets from Space
Noah's Ark
Esther
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
Star Trek: Insurrection
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Vacation in Hell
Einstein Revealed
Color of Justice
Mimic
Eruption
Children of the Revolution
Puma: Lion of the Andes
Looking for Richard
Dead Man's Walk
Baby Face Nelson
Mighty Aphrodite
Dillinger and Capone
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Nostradamus
Fresh
Surviving the Game
L'Affaire
Jamila
Sweet Killing
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Last Action Hero
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Through an Open Window
The First Circle
Eye of the Widow
By the Sword
Mobsters
Money
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Drums of Fire
The Little Match Girl
Cadence
A Season of Giants
A Season of Giants
Performance Pieces
Largo Desolato
I promessi sposi
The Making of Slipstream
An Innocent Man
The Favorite
Slipstream
Beyond the Stars
Il Trovatore
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
American Experience
The Third Solution
La rosa dei nomi
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
The Name of the Rose
Dream West
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Amadeus
Scarface
Marco Polo
Nature
The Big Fix
A.E.S. Hudson Street
Madman
Sex and the Married Woman
The Andros Targets
The Ritz
All the President's Men
The Sunshine Boys
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
NOVA
Serpico
Kojak
They Might Be Giants
All in the Family
Dead Lawyers
Out of This World
Time Out
Sharkland