F. Murray Abraham
Birthday: 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.
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The Name of the Rose
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Star Trek: Insurrection
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Amadeus
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Finding Forrester
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Excellent Cadavers
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Inside Llewyn Davis
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Color of Justice
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Serpico
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All the President's Men
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Super Cats
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Le Nom de la Rose : Le Documentaire
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Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
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L'Affaire
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Isle of Dogs
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Beyond the Stars
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Looking for Richard
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The Final Inquiry
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Fresh
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The Third Solution
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Jamila
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The Making of 'Amadeus'
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Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
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Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
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Vacation in Hell
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Every Act of Life
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Robin Hood
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
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40 Years of Star Trek
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Lady and the Tramp
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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
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411
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Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
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In the Valley of the Wolves
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The Beauty of Ugly
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Il Trovatore
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Ballerina
The film tells the story of an aspiring dancer who from Eastern Europe is reached in Italy with the ...
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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the sce...
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The Great San Francisco Earthquake
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild....
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The Magic Flute
A seventeen year old travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boardin...
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Things Heard & Seen
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The Unseen World
The film documents John Henry Newman's spirituality and influence on his contemporaries in Victorian...
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Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
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Bookends
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Dead Lawyers
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The Phoenician Scheme
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Out of This World
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Performance Pieces
Starring the Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, shot in high-definition video, and was t...
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