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F. Murray Abraham
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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'…
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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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F. Murray Abraham's Filmography
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Bookends
as Saul Cohen
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
Milarepa
as Oyun
The Phoenician Scheme
as Prophet
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
as Himself
Mother, Couch
as Marcus / Marco
Double Soul
as Mentor
The Magic Flute
as Dr. Longbow
The Siege of Vienna
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
as Self (archive footage)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Things Heard & Seen
as Floyd DeBeers
Lady and the Tramp
as Tony
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
as Ayatollah (archive footage)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
as Grimmel (voice)
The Letter
as Narrator
Robin Hood
as Cardinal
Super Cats
as Narrator (voice)
Every Act of Life
as Self
Isle of Dogs
as Jupiter (voice)
411
as Information (voice)
A Little Game
as Norman Wallach
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Mr. Moustafa
The Mystery of Dante
as Dante Alter Ego
Inside Llewyn Davis
as Bud Grossman
The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
as Braque
Love, Marilyn
as Self
Dead Man Down
as Gregor
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
as The Margrave
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
as Marco D'Aviano
No Poster
The Unseen World
as John Henry Newman
Is That Skunk?
as Narrator
No Poster
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
as Narrates Program One
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
In the Valley of the Wolves
as Narrator
Barbarossa
as Siniscalco Barozzi
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
Perestroika
as Professor Gross
The Dragon Chronicles
as Narrator
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
as Leon See
Shark Swarm
as Professor Bill Girdler
Language of the Enemy
as Grandfather Wahid
Ballerina
as Goran
No Poster
The Beauty of Ugly
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
as Narrator
Blood Monkey
as Professor Hamilton
Come le formiche
as Ruggero
The Final Inquiry
as Nathan
Quiet Flows The Don
as Pantaley
The Stone Merchant
as Shahid
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
as Jeffrey
40 Years of Star Trek
as Self
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
as Viceroy of Peru
Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
My Father
as Paul Minsky
Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
as Self
Five Moons Plaza
as Entita
Ticker
as Airport Guru
The Making of 'Amadeus'
as Self - Salieri
Joshua
as Father Tardone
Thir13en Ghosts
as Cyrus
Knights of the Quest
as Delfinello da Coverzano
Un dono semplice
as Thomas Barlow
Finding Forrester
as Robert Crawford
The Darkling
as Bruno Rubin
The Directors: Milos Forman
as Self
Excellent Cadavers
as Tommaso Buscetta
Muppets from Space
as Noah
Esther
as Mordechai
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
as Professor Henry Covington
Star Trek: Insurrection
as Ad'har Ru'afo
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
as Himself
Vacation in Hell
as Belisario
No Poster
Einstein Revealed
as Narrator
Color of Justice
as Jim Sullivan
Mimic
as Dr. Gates
Eruption
as President Mendoza
Children of the Revolution
as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
Puma: Lion of the Andes
as Narrator (voice)
Looking for Richard
as Self
Baby Face Nelson
as Al Capone
Mighty Aphrodite
as Chorleiter
Dillinger and Capone
as Al Capone
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
as Goldstein
Nostradamus
as Scalinger
Fresh
as Chess Hustler
Surviving the Game
as Wolfe, Sr.
L'Affaire
as Lucien Haslans
Jamila
as Older Seit
No Poster
Sweet Killing
as Zargo
Journey to the Center of the Earth
as Professor Harlech
Last Action Hero
as John Practice
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as Harold Leacher
Through an Open Window
as Narrator
The First Circle
as Stalin
Eye of the Widow
as Kharoun
By the Sword
as Suba
Mobsters
as Arnold Rothstein
Money
as Will Scarlet
The Bonfire of the Vanities
as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
Drums of Fire
as Osrain
The Little Match Girl
as Narrator (voice)
Cadence
as Capt. Ramon Garcia
A Season of Giants
as Papa Giulio II
Performance Pieces
as Jack Narwhal
No Poster
Largo Desolato
as Professor Leopold Nettles
The Making of Slipstream
An Innocent Man
as Virgil Cane
The Favorite
as Abdul Hamid
Slipstream
as Cornelius
Beyond the Stars
as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
Il Trovatore
as Self - Host
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Third Solution
as Father Carafa
La rosa dei nomi
as Self
No Poster
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
as Self
The Name of the Rose
as Bernardo Gui
Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
as Herman Melville
Amadeus
as Antonio Salieri
Scarface
as Omar
The Big Fix
as Eppis
Madman
as Marco Cohen
Sex and the Married Woman
as Duke Skaggs
The Ritz
as Chris
All the President's Men
as Arresting Officer #1
The Sunshine Boys
as Mechanic
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
as Taxi Driver
Serpico
as Detective Partner (uncredited)
They Might Be Giants
as Clyde (the usher)
Out of This World
No Poster
Dead Lawyers
No Poster
Time Out
Sharkland
as Narrator