F. Murray Abraham is an American actor known for his work in film, television and theatre.
F. Murray Abraham is an American actor known for his work in film, television and theatre.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | They Might Be Giants | Clyde | |
| 1973 | Serpico | Serpico's Partner | Uncredited |
| 1975 | The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Taxi Driver | |
| The Sunshine Boys | Car Mechanic | ||
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Paul Leeper | |
| The Ritz | Chris | ||
| 1978 | The Big Fix | Howard Eppis | |
| 1983 | Scarface | Omar Suárez | |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri | |
| 1986 | On the Wing | Narrator | Documentary short |
| The Name of the Rose | Bernardo Gui | ||
| 1988 | The Third Solution | Father Carafa | |
| 1989 | Slipstream | Cornelius | |
| Beyond the Stars | Dr. Harry Bertram | ||
| The Favorite | Abdul Hamid | ||
| An Innocent Man | Virgil Cane | ||
| 1990 | Cadence | Captain Ramon Garcia | Uncredited |
| The Battle of the Three Kings | Osrain | ||
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | District Attorney Abe Weiss | Uncredited | |
| 1991 | Mobsters | Arnold Rothstein | |
| Money | Will Scarlet | ||
| By the Sword | Max Suba | ||
| Eye of the Widow | Kharoun | ||
| 1992 | Through an Open Window | Narrator (voice) | Short film |
| 1993 | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon | Dr. Harold Leacher | |
| Sweet Killing | Zargo | ||
| Last Action Hero | Detective John Practice | ||
| 1994 | Fresh | Chess Hustler | Uncredited |
| L'Affaire | Lucien Haslans | ||
| Surviving the Game | Derek Wolfe Sr. | ||
| Nostradamus | Julius Caesar Scaliger | ||
| 1995 | Mighty Aphrodite | Leader | |
| Dillinger and Capone | Al Capone | [1] [2] [3] | |
| 1996 | Children of the Revolution | Joseph Stalin | |
| 1997 | Mimic | Dr. Gates | |
| Una vacanza all'inferno | Belisario | ||
| Eruption | President Mendoza | ||
| 1998 | Star Trek: Insurrection | Ahdar Ru'afo | |
| 1999 | Muppets from Space | Noah | Cameo |
| The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy | Henry Covington | ||
| 2000 | Finding Forrester | Professor Robert Crawford | |
| David Proshker | Narrator | Short film | |
| 2001 | The Knights of the Quest | Delfinello da Coverzano | |
| Thir13en Ghosts | Cyrus Kriticos | ||
| 2002 | The Hire | Airport Guru | Segment: "The Ticker" |
| Joshua | Father Tardone | ||
| 2003 | Five Moons Square | The Entity | |
| Rua Alguem 5555: My Father | Paul Minsky | ||
| 2004 | Another Way of Seeing Things | Narrator | Short film |
| Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers | Jeffrey | ||
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Viceroy of Peru | ||
| 2006 | The Stone Merchant | Shahid | |
| Quiet Flows The Don | Pantaley | ||
| The Inquiry | Nathan | ||
| 2007 | Wine and Kisses | Ruggero | |
| Blood Monkey | Professor Hamilton | ||
| 2008 | Carnera: The Walking Mountain | Léon Sée | |
| A House Divided | Grandfather Wahid | ||
| 2009 | Perestroika | Professor Gross | |
| Barbarossa | Siniscalco Barozzi | ||
| 2010 | The Unseen World | John Henry Newman | |
| 2012 | Goltzius and the Pelican Company | The Margrave of Alsace | |
| The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 | Father Marco d'Aviano | ||
| 2013 | Dead Man Down | Gregor | |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | Bud Grossman | ||
| The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die | Braque | ||
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Mr. Moustafa | |
| The Mystery of Dante | Dante Alter Ego | ||
| A Little Game | Norman Wallach | ||
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Jupiter | Voice |
| Robin Hood | Cardinal Franklin | ||
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Grimmel [4] | Voice |
| Lady and the Tramp | Tony | ||
| 2021 | Things Heard & Seen | Floyd DeBeers | |
| 2022 | The Magic Flute | Dr. Longbow | |
| 2023 | Double Soul | Mentor | |
| Mother, Couch | Marcus / Marco | ||
| 2025 | The Phoenician Scheme | Prophet | |
| 2026 | Out of This World | TBA | Post-production |
| TBA | Bookends | Saul | Post-production |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | How to Survive a Marriage | Joshua Browne | Episode #1.325 |
| 1975, 1977 | Kojak | Solly Nurse / Eddie Gordon | 2 episodes |
| 1976 | All in the Family | Clerk | Episode: "The Unemployment Story: Part 1" |
| 1977 | A.E.S. Hudson Street | Dr. Tony Menzies | Aired pilot; replaced by Gregory Sierra |
| The Andros Targets | Bobby Carr | Episode: "The Killing of a Porno Queen" | |
| Sex and the Married Woman | Duke Skaggs | Television film | |
| 1982–1983 | Marco Polo | Jacopo | 6 episodes |
| 1986 | Dream West | Abraham Lincoln | 2 episodes |
| 1989 | The Betrothed | Innominato | |
| 1990 | A Season of Giants | Pope Julius II | Television film |
| 1992 | The First Circle | Joseph Stalin | |
| 1993 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Professor Harlech | |
| Il caso Dozier | Goldstein | ||
| 1996 | Dead Man's Walk | Captain Caleb Cobb | 3 episodes |
| 1999 | Excellent Cadavers | Tommaso Buscetta | Television film |
| Esther | Mordechai | ||
| 2000 | The Darkling | Bruno Rubin | |
| ill it Un dono semplice | Thomas Barlow | ||
| 2003 | Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites | Narrator (voice) | Television documentary |
| Pompeii: The Last Day | |||
| 2005 | NOVA - Newton's Dark Secrets | ||
| 2007 | In the Valley of the Wolves | ||
| 2008 | Shark Swarm | Bill Girdler | Television film |
| The Wolf That Changed America | Narrator (voice) | Television documentary | |
| 2009 | Saving Grace | Matthew | Episode: "What Would You Do?" |
| 2010 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Dr. Theodore Nichols | Episode: "Three-In-One" |
| Bored to Death | Professor Richard Hawkes | Episode: "I've Been Living Like a Demented God!" | |
| 2011–2014 | The Good Wife | Burl Preston | 4 episodes |
| 2011, 2012, 2014 | Louie | John / Uncle Excelsior / Louie's Dad | 3 Episode |
| 2012 | Blue Bloods | Leon Goodwin | Episode: "The Job" |
| 2012–2018 | Homeland | Dar Adal | 39 episodes |
| 2013 | Do No Harm | Cozar | Episode: "Six Feet Deep" |
| Elementary | Daniel Gottlieb | Episode: "A Landmark Story" | |
| 2016 | Inside Amy Schumer | Diplomat | Episode: "Madame President" |
| 2017 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Himself | Episode: "Fatwa!" |
| 2018 | The Good Fight | Burl Preston | Episode: "Day 436" |
| 2019 | The Orville | Council Chairman | Episode: "Sanctuary" |
| Chimerica | Frank Sams | 4 episodes | |
| 2020–2021 | Mythic Quest | C.W. Longbottom | 18 episodes |
| 2022 | Moon Knight | Khonshu (voice) | 5 episodes |
| Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities | Dr. Carl Winters | Episode: "The Autopsy" | |
| The White Lotus | Bert Di Grasso | 7 episodes | |
| 2023 | White House Plumbers | John Sirica | 2 episodes |
| 2025 | Marvel Zombies | Khonshu (voice) | 2 episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit | Coronet Theatre | |
| 1966–67 | The Fantasticks | The Actor (Henry) | Sullivan Street Playhouse, Off-Broadway |
| 1968–69 | The Man in the Glass Booth | Tzelniker-Rudin | Royale Theatre, Broadway |
| 1969 | Tonight in Living Color | Jonathan | Actors' Playhouse, Off-Broadway [5] |
| 1971 | The Survival of St. Joan | Performer | Anderson Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? | The Men | Eastside Playhouse, Off-Broadway | |
| 1972 | 6 Rms Riv Vu | The Expectant Father | Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway |
| 1974 | Bad Habits | Roy Pitt/Mr. Blum | Astor Place Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| Booth Theatre, Broadway | |||
| 1975–76 | The Ritz | Chris | Longacre Theatre, Broadway |
| 1976 | Legend | Jesse Lymburner | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway |
| Sexual Perversity in Chicago The Duck Variations | Bernard Litko | Cherry Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway | |
| 1977 | Landscape of the Body | Capt. Holahan | The Public Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1978 | The Master and Margarita | Performer | |
| 1979–80 | Teibele and Her Demon | Alchonon | Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway |
| 1980 | The Seagull | Yevgeny Dorn | The Public Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1982 | The Caretaker | Davies | 23rd Street Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| Antigone | Creon | The Public Theater, Off-Broadway | |
| 1983–84 | Uncle Vanya | Mikhail Astrov | La MaMa Annex |
| 1984 | The Golem | Rabbi Judah Leyb | Delacorte Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1985 | The Madwoman of Chaillot | Ragpicker | Theatre at St. Peter's Church, Off-Broadway |
| 1986 | Twelfth Night | Malvolio | Delacorte Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1986–87 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Belasco Theatre, Broadway |
| 1987 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Nick Bottom | The Public Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1988 | Waiting for Godot | Pozzo | Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1992 | A Life in the Theatre | Robert | Jewish Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 1994 | Angels in America | Roy Cohn | Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway |
| 1995 | A Month in the Country | Ignaty Illyich Shpichelsky | Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway |
| 1996 | King Lear | Lear | The Public Theater, Off-Broadway |
| Tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | Aldwych Theatre, West End | |
| 1997–98 | Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | Royale Theatre, Broadway |
| 2003 | Trumbo: Red White and Blacklisted | Dalton Trumbo | Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2006 | An Oak Tree | Father | Barrow Street Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2007 | The Jew of Malta | Barabas | The Duke on 42nd Street, Off-Broadway |
| The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | ||
| Mauritius | Sterling | The Biltmore Theatre, Broadway | |
| 2008 | Almost an Evening | Control/God Who Judges | Bleecker Street Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2009 | Offices | Cassady/Bum | Linda Gross Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 2011 | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | National Tour |
| 2012 | Galileo | Galileo Galilei | Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway |
| The Golden Age | Gioacchino Rossini | New York City Center, Off-Broadway | |
| 2014 | The Threepenny Opera | Jonathan Peachum | Linda Gross Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2014–15 | It's Only a Play | Ira Drew | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway |
| 2016 | White Rabbit Red Rabbit | Performer | Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| Nathan the Wise | Nathan | Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway | |
| 2017 | The Mentor | Benjamin Rubin | Vaudeville Theatre, West End |
| 2018 | Good for Otto | Barnard | Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway |
| 2023 | Gutenberg! The Musical! | Producer (one night only) | James Earl Jones Theatre, Broadway |
| 2024 | The Queen of Versailles | David A. Siegel | Emerson Colonial Theatre, Boston [6] |
| 2025 | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp | Irish Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2025 | The Queen of Versailles | David A. Siegel | St. James Theatre, Broadway |
