Cast & creator
F. Murray Abraham
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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.
Also known as: Frank Murray Abraham, Murray Abraham
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1971–2026 · acting roles
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Filmography (174)
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Theodore Nichols
2001
Blue Bloods
Leon Goodwin
2010
The Good Wife
Burl Preston
2009
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Ayatollah
2000
Elementary
Daniel Gottlieb
2012
NOVA
Narrator
1974
Homeland
Dar Adal
2011
The Orville
Chairman
2017
American Experience
Self - Narrator (voice)
1988
The White Lotus
Bert Di Grasso
2021
The Good Fight
Burl Preston
2017
Nature
Narrator (voice)
1982
All in the Family
Clerk
1971
Moon Knight
Khonshu (voice)
2022
Mythic Quest
C.W. Longbottom
2020
Kojak
Solly Nurse
1973Kojak
Eddie Gordon
1973
Saving Grace
Matthew
2007
Scarface
Omar
1983
Beauty and the Beast
Cyril
2012
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Moustafa
2014
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Grimmel (voice)
2019
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Dr. Carl Winters
2022
Isle of Dogs
Jupiter (voice)
2018
Marvel Zombies
Khonshu (voice)
2025
Bored to Death
Professor Richard Hawkes
2009
Robin Hood
Cardinal
2018
Thir13en Ghosts
Cyrus
2001
Inside Llewyn Davis
Bud Grossman
2013
White House Plumbers
Judge John Sirica
2023
Amadeus
Antonio Salieri
1984
Last Action Hero
John Practice
1993
Lady and the Tramp
Tony
2019
The Phoenician Scheme
Prophet
2025
Marco Polo
Jacopo
1982
The Name of the Rose
Bernardo Gui
1986
The Hire
Airport Guru
2001
All the President's Men
Arresting Officer #1
1976
Mimic
Dr. Gates
1997
Star Trek: Insurrection
Ad'har Ru'afo
1998
Dead Man Down
Gregor
2013
Finding Forrester
Robert Crawford
2000
Serpico
Detective Partner (uncredited)
1973
Fresh
Chess Hustler
1994
Things Heard & Seen
Floyd DeBeers
2021
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Harold Leacher
1993
Muppets from Space
Noah
1999
The Andros Targets
Bobby Carr
1977
Road to 9/11
Self - Narrator
2017
I promessi sposi
l'Innominato
1989
Mighty Aphrodite
Chorleiter
1995
Chimerica
Frank Sams
2019
Dead Man's Walk
Caleb Cobb
1996
Mother, Couch
Marcus / Marco
2024
The Magic Flute
Dr. Longbow
2022
The Bonfire of the Vanities
D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
1990
Noah's Ark
Lot
1999
Surviving the Game
Wolfe, Sr.
1994
An Innocent Man
Virgil Cane
1989
Quiet Flows the Don
Panteleimon 'Panteley' Melekhov
2006
The Final Inquiry
Nathan
2007
L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Nathan
2007
Love, Marilyn
Self
2013
A.E.S. Hudson Street
1978
Dillinger and Capone
Al Capone
1995
Okavango: River of Dreams
Narrator (voice)
2019
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
They Might Be Giants
Clyde (the usher)
1971
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
2014
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Viceroy of Peru
2004
Looking for Richard
Self
1996
Mobsters
Arnold Rothstein
1991
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Taxi Driver
1975
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
The Margrave
2012
Excellent Cadavers
Tommaso Buscetta
1999
Esther
Mordechai
1999
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
2022
Eruption
President Mendoza
1997
Il Trovatore
Self - Host
1988
Dream West
President Abraham Lincoln
1986
Shark Swarm
Professor Bill Girdler
2008
The Sunshine Boys
Mechanic
1975
Every Act of Life
Self
2018
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Professor Harlech
1993
Baby Face Nelson
Al Capone
1996
The Big Fix
Eppis
1978
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
Marco D'Aviano
2012
The Ritz
Chris
1976
My Father
Paul Minsky
2003
Beyond the Stars
Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
1989
L'Affaire
Lucien Haslans
1994Dead Lawyers
Children of the Revolution
Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
1996
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Readings (Voice)
2003
Cadence
Capt. Ramon Garcia
1990
By the Sword
Suba
1991
Performance Pieces
Jack Narwhal
1990
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
2009
Language of the Enemy
Grandfather Wahid
2008
A Season of Giants
Papa Giulio II
1990
Knights of the Quest
Delfinello da Coverzano
2001
La rosa dei nomi
Self
1987
Eye of the Widow
Kharoun
1991
Super Cats
Narrator (voice)
2018
The Making of 'Amadeus'
Self - Salieri
2002
Sex and the Married Woman
Duke Skaggs
1977
Five Moons Plaza
Entita
2003
Barbarossa
Siniscalco Barozzi
2009
This Ordinary Thing
Self (voice)
2025
Bookends
Saul Cohen
2026
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Ayatollah (archive footage)
2019
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
Professor Henry Covington
1999
Quiet Flows The Don
Pantaley
2006Time Out
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
Leon See
2008
The Little Match Girl
Narrator (voice)
1990
Blood Monkey
Professor Hamilton
2007
Drums of Fire
Osrain
1990
The Stone Merchant
Shahid
2006
The Mystery of Dante
Dante Alter Ego
2014
Ballerina
Goran
2008
40 Years of Star Trek
Self
2006
Color of Justice
Jim Sullivan
1997
Slipstream
Cornelius
1989
Double Soul
Mentor
2023
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
Herman Melville
1985
Sharkland
Narrator
The Making of Slipstream
1989
The Directors: Milos Forman
Self
2000
Vacation in Hell
Belisario
1997
Milarepa
Oyun
2025Sweet Killing
Zargo
1993
Out of This World
A Little Game
Norman Wallach
2014The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
Self
1986
The Third Solution
Father Carafa
1988
The First Circle
Stalin
1992
The Letter
Narrator
2018
The Siege of Vienna
2022Einstein Revealed
Narrator
1997
Ticker
Airport Guru
2002
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
Himself
2025
Joshua
Father Tardone
2002
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
Jeffrey
2006
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
Braque
2013
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
Himself
1998
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Self
2003
Nostradamus
Scalinger
1994
Puma: Lion of the Andes
Narrator (voice)
1996
Money
Will Scarlet
1991
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
Narrator
2007
The Darkling
Bruno Rubin
2000
In the Valley of the Wolves
Narrator
2010
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Goldstein
1994
Through an Open Window
Narrator
1992
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
2004
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
2010
The Dragon Chronicles
Narrator
2009Largo Desolato
Professor Leopold Nettles
1990
411
Information (voice)
2015The Beauty of Ugly
Self - Narrator (voice)
2007
The Favorite
Abdul Hamid
1989The Unseen World
John Henry Newman
2012
Madman
Marco Cohen
1978
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Self - Narrator (voice)
1988
Is That Skunk?
Narrator
2011Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
Narrates Program One
2010
A Season of Giants
Papa Giulio II
1990
Un dono semplice
Thomas Barlow
2000
Perestroika
Professor Gross
2009
Jamila
Older Seit
1994
Come le formiche
Ruggero
2007