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 Outs...
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Complete Filmography

Milarepa
2025
as Oyun
In Sardinia, in the near future, the ancient settlements come back to life, once again hosting man. The young Mila is robbed of her father's inheritan...

The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Prophet
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon becom...

Mother, Couch
2024
as Marcus / Marco
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch suddenly refu...

Double Soul
2023
as Mentor
Twins, identical in appearance but different in soul. A double female point of view, narrated between Italy and the Middle East, between the affirmati...

The Magic Flute
2022
as Dr. Longbow
A seventeen year old travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forg...

The Siege of Vienna
2022
THE SIEGE OF VIENNA. SEPTEMBER 11,1683. THE BATTLE THAT SAVED CHRISTIANITY IN THE WEST. DVD This epic film tells the powerful true story of one of the...

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
2022
as Khonshu (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Join the likes of Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke as they reveal how Marvel Studios' Moon Knight was painstakingly brought to life. Through insightful int...

Things Heard & Seen
2021
as Floyd DeBeers
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a j...

Okavango: River of Dreams - Director's Cut
2020
as Narrator (voice)
In this officially released edit, experience the wildlife of the Okavango Delta, an oasis and lush paradise in Southern Africa that connects a wide ar...

Lady and the Tramp
2019
as Tony
The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out on the street after her owner...

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019
as Ayatollah (archive footage)
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered...

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019
as Grimmel (voice)
As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When da...

The Letter
2018
as Narrator
A little girl receives a letter from Santa Claus.

Robin Hood
2018
as Cardinal
A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.

Super Cats
2018
as Narrator (voice)
1) Extreme Lives Uncover the secret lives of big cats who thrive in all four corners of the globe, from the solitary snow leopard to the nimble rusty...

Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay righ...

Isle of Dogs
2018
as Jupiter (voice)
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must ...

411
2015
as Information (voice)
After a car accident, a skeptical New Yorker must call for help on a mysterious pay phone that responds only to '411'. He gets Information, and in a t...

A Little Game
2014
as Norman Wallach
Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in t...

Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2014
as Self
A 42-minute making-of documentary, "Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis,'" produced and directed by David Prior. A number of cast and key crew people are inte...

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Mr. Moustafa
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becom...

The Mystery of Dante
2014
as Dante Alter Ego
A journey in the footsteps of the most famous initiate of Italian Trecento, the author of the celebrated "Divine Comedy". A poet who has inspired some...

Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2014
as The Margrave
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary ...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
as Bud Grossman
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
2013
as Braque
Elderly Italian who immigrated to Canada after killing a famous soccer player in a car accident must pay off his gambling debts by agreeing to become ...

Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ...

Dead Man Down
2013
as Gregor
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683
2012
as Marco D'Aviano
In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is t...
The Unseen World
2012
as John Henry Newman
The film documents John Henry Newman's spirituality and influence on his contemporaries in Victorian England.
Beauty and the Beast
2012
as Cyril

Is That Skunk?
2011
as Narrator
An in-depth look into the life of a skunk. Explores far more than their ability to make a stink.
Nature Amazing Places Hawaii
2010
as Narrates Program One
Program One KILAUEA: MOUNTAIN OF FIRE Ecosystems on Big Island Face No Small Challenge Kilauea, violent and beautiful, destructive and creative, con...

Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
2010
Hummingbirds are the tiniest of birds, yet they are some of the toughest, most energetic creatures on the planet. Their unique flying abilities give t...

In the Valley of the Wolves
2010
as Narrator
In 1995, the first gray wolves were transported from Alberta, Canada to Yellowstone National Park, to repopulate the sprawling landscape with the spec...

Barbarossa
2009
as Siniscalco Barozzi
Year 1100. Italy.The Northern lands are ruled by a German emperor: Fredrick aka "Barbarossa. His dream is to conquer also the lands in the Center and ...

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
as Self
Why did Milos Forman have to make certain films the way he did? Where does his inner strength come from? What is the story of his life?

Perestroika
2009
as Professor Gross
Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his ...
The Dragon Chronicles
2009
as Narrator
PBS Nature.

Carnera: The Walking Mountain
2008
as Leon See
The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also ac...

Shark Swarm
2008
as Professor Bill Girdler
A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area's sharks into bl...
A House Divided
2008
as Grandfather Wahid
An American Jewish man visiting Jerusalem for the funeral of his father gets sucked into a world of violent intrigue after meeting a mysterious, beaut...

Ballerina
2008
as Goran
The film tells the story of an aspiring dancer who from Eastern Europe is reached in Italy with the mirage of realizing the dream of her life which in...
The Beauty of Ugly
2007
as Self - Narrator (voice)
In the animal world, as in our own, looks aren’t everything. In fact, some of the most aesthetically challenged creatures — from warthogs and probosci...

Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America
2007
as Narrator

Blood Monkey
2007
as Professor Hamilton
Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after setting up camp in a jungle clearing, they soon b...

Come le formiche
2007
as Ruggero

The Final Inquiry
2007
as Nathan
In 35 A.D., a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection of a certain Jesus from Nazareth.

Quiet Flows The Don
2006
as Pantaley
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthl...

The Stone Merchant
2006
as Shahid
The Merchant (Harvey Keitel) is a Westerner. A merchant dealing in precious stones from Afganistan and Turkey. He's above suspicion. In truth, the "St...

Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
2006
as Jeffrey
After a long marriage, Maria and Jeffrey are now in crisis. Trying to keep the family together, she tries to convince their children to attend the bir...

40 Years of Star Trek
2006
as Self
The Space Channel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the original STAR TREK. Produced by Mark Askwith, hosted by Jonathan Llyr and featuring interview...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004
as Viceroy of Peru
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of seve...

Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
2004
A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film "The Name of the Rose".

My Father
2003
as Paul Minsky
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments...

Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
2003
as Self
On the eve of the final Off-Broadway performance of the long-running musical "The Fantasticks," filmmaker Eli Kabillio takes a wistful look back at th...

Five Moons Plaza
2003
as Entita
Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. As the District Attorney takes o...

Ticker
2002
as Airport Guru
The Driver drives a wounded diplomat, who carries a mysterious briefcase, while under helicopter attack. During the attack the briefcase is struck by ...

The Making of 'Amadeus'
2002
as Self - Salieri
This riveting film takes a look behind the scenes at one of the 20th century's cinema classics and at one of contemporary cinema's most maddeningly br...

Joshua
2002
as Father Tardone
When Joshua moves to the outskirts of Auburn, he awakens the curiosity of the sleepy town. They don’t know who he is or where he came from, but no one...

Thir13en Ghosts
2001
as Cyrus Kriticos
Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nann...

Knights of the Quest
2001
as Delfinello da Coverzano
In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal fam...

Un dono semplice
2000
as 主演

Finding Forrester
2000
as Robert Crawford
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accide...

The Darkling
2000
as Bruno Rubin
When mechanic Jeff Obold meets the wealthy and mysterious Bruno Rubin, he is exposed for the first time to the finer things in life. But Jeff soon dis...

The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
as Self
Documentary about the Chzech director, Milos Forman.

Excellent Cadavers
1999
as Tommaso Buscetta
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthl...

Muppets from Space
1999
as Noah
When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him...

Esther
1999
as Mordechai
Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody massacre.

The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
1999
as Professor Henry Covington
Bronson Pinchot does a nice job imitating Stan Laurel and Gailard Sartain gives a good appearance as Oliver Hardy, but the imitation does not extend t...

Star Trek: Insurrection
1998
as Ad'har Ru'afo
When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and th...

Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
1998
as Himself
Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.

Vacation in Hell
1997
as Belisario
Italian man unknowingly becomes a drug mule and gets arrested in Thailand. He is sent to tough prison where he plans escape with the help of another p...
Einstein Revealed
1997
as Narrator
NOVA biography of Albert Einstein, covering his early years, relativity research and personal life.

Color of Justice
1997
as Jim Sullivan
Four young black men kill a white woman. Now the D.A. is very cautious how to pursue this case because it might start a riot. And adding fuel to the f...

Mimic
1997
as Dr. Gates
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutan...

Eruption
1997
as President Mendoza
Sam Hunter, an American photojournalist, is ostensibly covering the Pope's visit to the South American country of San Pedro. But Sam's real goal is to...

Children of the Revolution
1996
as Josef 'Uncle Joe' Stalin
A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.

Looking for Richard
1996
as Self
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Ric...

Baby Face Nelson
1996
as Al Capone
Bonnie and Clyde were no match for Depression Era gangster George "Babyface" Nelson and his moll Helen Womack. Constantly on the lam from the law and ...

Mighty Aphrodite
1995
as Chorleiter
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother i...

Dillinger and Capone
1995
as Al Capone
In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fa...

Nostradamus
1994
as Scalinger
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, afte...

Fresh
1994
as Chess Hustler
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.

Surviving the Game
1994
as Wolfe Sr.
A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who h...

L'Affaire
1994
as Lucien Haslans
A man who had everything taken away from him, including his family, by his brother teams up with a young card player in order to take revenge on the b...

Jamila
1994
as Older Seit
In the 1940s, young Kirghiz boy falls hopelessly for Jamilla, but their love has no future.
Sweet Killing
1993
as Zargo
A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell.

Journey to the Center of the Earth
1993
as Professor Harlech
This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrat...

Last Action Hero
1993
as John Practice
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is ...

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Harold Leacher
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before the...

Through an Open Window
1992
as Narrator
A middle-aged suburban woman is haunted by what she believes to be a bird that is stuck in her house, convincing those around her that she has lost he...

The First Circle
1992
as Stalin
In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a spec...

Eye of the Widow
1991
as Kharoun
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. Th...

By the Sword
1991
as Suba
An elderly man named Max comes to the famous fencing coach Villar and asks to take him on as a coach. But the coach does not like his weapon technique...

Mobsters
1991
as Arnold Rothstein
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime.....

Money
1991
as Will Scarlet
A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial cente...

The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
as D.A. Abe Weiss (uncredited)
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and ...

Drums of Fire
1990
as Osrain
In 1568, Saadi prince Abdelmalek is exiled from Morocco by his brothers, an event that is only the beginning of his adventures: fighting the Spanish I...

The Little Match Girl
1990
as Narrator (voice)
The Hans Christian Andersen classic is given present-day relevance and an upbeat ending in this story of Angela, a homeless child who sells matchstick...

Cadence
1990
as Capt. Ramon Garcia
As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of fa...

A Season of Giants
1990
as Papa Giulio II
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpie...
Largo Desolato
1990
as Professor Leopold Nettles
A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one...

The Making of Slipstream
1989
The making of Steven Lisberger's 1989 Sci-Fi film Slipstream

An Innocent Man
1989
as Virgil Cane
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a maj...

The Favorite
1989
as Abdul Hamid
A French girl is kidnapped and sold as slave to the sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Slipstream
1989
as Cornelius
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of t...

Beyond the Stars
1989
as Dr. Harry Bertram - the Whale Man
Teenager Eric, the son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon, is determined to become an as...

Il Trovatore
1988
as Self - Host
Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manrico, the ardent troubadour, trapped in an...

The Great San Francisco Earthquake
1988
as Self - Narrator (voice)
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.

The Third Solution
1988
as Father Carafa
The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. Bu...

La rosa dei nomi
1987
as Self
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of ...

The Name of the Rose
1986
as Bernardo Gui
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under my...

Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
1985
as Herman Melville
From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this outstanding documentary tracks ...

Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
1984
as Goldstein

Amadeus
1984
as Antonio Salieri
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese...

Scarface
1983
as Omar
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciousl...

The Big Fix
1978
as Eppis
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is re...

Madman
1978
as Marco Cohen
Killing as many commies as he can is the goal of a hatred consumed private in the Israeli Army. The memory of his torture in a Russian mental hospital...

Sex and the Married Woman
1977
as Duke Skaggs
A suburban housewife writes a novel based on her neighbors' sex lives. It becomes a runaway best seller, but causes no end of trouble in her marriage ...

The Ritz
1976
as Chris
To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place where he can't be found. Unfortunately for Gaetano, th...

All the President's Men
1976
as Arresting Officer #1
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...

The Sunshine Boys
1975
as Mechanic
Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spok...

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975
as Taxi Driver
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.

Serpico
1973
as Detective Partner (uncredited)
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

They Might Be Giants
1971
as Clyde (the usher)
After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock Holme...

Bookends
N/A
as Saul Cohen
Nate is an excitable millennial novelist forced to leave his fabulous city life behind and move in with his grandparents after a bad breakup. But when...
Dead Lawyers
N/A
A crooked lawyer gets killed in an accident. As punishment for his wrongful practices, he is sent back to Earth to redeem himself by working for a law...

Out of This World
N/A
An American delegation travels to Russia in the midst of the Ukrainian war to try to find a solution to an economic dispute.