# F. Murray Abraham on screen and stage

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F. Murray Abraham is an American actor known for his work in film, television and theatre.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1971 | They Might Be Giants | Clyde | |
| 1973 | Serpico | Serpico's Partner | Uncredited |
| 1975 | The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Taxi Driver | |
| 1975 | The Sunshine Boys | Car Mechanic | |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Paul Leeper | |
| 1976 | The Ritz | Chris | |
| 1978 | The Big Fix | Howard Eppis | |
| 1983 | Scarface | Omar Suárez | |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Antonio Salieri | |
| 1986 | On the Wing | Narrator | Documentary short |
| 1986 | The Name of the Rose | Bernardo Gui | |
| 1988 | The Third Solution | Father Carafa | |
| 1989 | Slipstream | Cornelius | |
| 1989 | Beyond the Stars | Dr. Harry Bertram | |
| 1989 | The Favorite | Abdul Hamid | |
| 1989 | An Innocent Man | Virgil Cane | |
| 1990 | Cadence | Captain Ramon Garcia | Uncredited |
| 1990 | The Battle of the Three Kings | Osrain | |
| 1990 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | District Attorney Abe Weiss | Uncredited |
| 1991 | Mobsters | Arnold Rothstein | |
| 1991 | Money | Will Scarlet | |
| 1991 | By the Sword | Max Suba | |
| 1991 | Eye of the Widow | Kharoun | |
| 1992 | Through an Open Window | Narrator (voice) | Short film |
| 1993 | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon | Dr. Harold Leacher | |
| 1993 | Sweet Killing | Zargo | |
| 1993 | Last Action Hero | Detective John Practice | |
| 1994 | Fresh | Chess Hustler | Uncredited |
| 1994 | L'Affaire | Lucien Haslans | |
| 1994 | Surviving the Game | Derek Wolfe Sr. | |
| 1994 | Nostradamus | Julius Caesar Scaliger | |
| 1995 | Mighty Aphrodite | Leader | |
| 1995 | Dillinger and Capone | Al Capone | |
| 1996 | Children of the Revolution | Joseph Stalin | |
| 1997 | Mimic | Dr. Gates | |
| 1997 | Una vacanza all'inferno | Belisario | |
| 1997 | Eruption | President Mendoza | |
| 1998 | Star Trek: Insurrection | Ahdar Ru'afo | |
| 1999 | Muppets from Space | Noah | Cameo |
| 1999 | The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy | Henry Covington | |
| 2000 | Finding Forrester | Professor Robert Crawford | |
| 2000 | David Proshker | Narrator | Short film |
| 2001 | The Knights of the Quest | Delfinello da Coverzano | |
| 2001 | Thir13en Ghosts | Cyrus Kriticos | |
| 2002 | The Hire | Airport Guru | Segment: "The Ticker" |
| 2002 | Joshua | Father Tardone | |
| 2003 | Five Moons Square | The Entity | |
| 2003 | Rua Alguem 5555: My Father | Paul Minsky | |
| 2004 | Another Way of Seeing Things | Narrator | Short film |
| 2004 | Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers | Jeffrey | |
| 2004 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Viceroy of Peru | |
| 2006 | The Stone Merchant | Shahid | |
| 2006 | Quiet Flows The Don | Pantaley | |
| 2006 | The Inquiry | Nathan | |
| 2007 | Wine and Kisses | Ruggero | |
| 2007 | Blood Monkey | Professor Hamilton | |
| 2008 | Carnera: The Walking Mountain | Léon Sée | |
| 2008 | A House Divided | Grandfather Wahid | |
| 2009 | Perestroika | Professor Gross | |
| 2009 | Barbarossa | Siniscalco Barozzi | |
| 2010 | The Unseen World | John Henry Newman | |
| 2012 | Goltzius and the Pelican Company | The Margrave of Alsace | |
| 2012 | The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 | Father Marco d'Aviano | |
| 2013 | Dead Man Down | Gregor | |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Bud Grossman | |
| 2013 | The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die | Braque | |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Mr. Moustafa | |
| 2014 | The Mystery of Dante | Dante Alter Ego | |
| 2014 | A Little Game | Norman Wallach | |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Jupiter | Voice |
| 2018 | Robin Hood | Cardinal Franklin | |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Grimmel | Voice |
| 2019 | Lady and the Tramp | Tony | |
| 2021 | Things Heard & Seen | Floyd DeBeers | |
| 2022 | The Magic Flute | Dr. Longbow | |
| 2023 | Double Soul | Mentor | |
| 2023 | Mother, Couch | Marcus / Marco | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1975 | How to Survive a Marriage | Joshua Browne | |
| 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 |
| 1977 | The Andros Targets | Bobby Carr | Episode: "The Killing of a Porno Queen" |
| 1977 | 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 | 2 episodes |
| 1990 | A Season of Giants | Pope Julius II | Television film |
| 1992 | The First Circle | Joseph Stalin | Television film |
| 1993 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Professor Harlech | Television film |
| 1993 | Il caso Dozier | Goldstein | Television film |
| 1996 | Dead Man's Walk | Captain Caleb Cobb | 3 episodes |
| 1999 | Excellent Cadavers | Tommaso Buscetta | Television film |
| 1999 | Esther | Mordechai | Television film |
| 2000 | The Darkling | Bruno Rubin | Television film |
| 2000 | ill it Un dono semplice | Thomas Barlow | Television film |
| 2003 | Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites | Narrator (voice) | Television documentary |
| 2003 | Pompeii: The Last Day | Narrator (voice) | Television documentary |
| 2005 | NOVA - Newton's Dark Secrets | Narrator (voice) | Television documentary |
| 2007 | In the Valley of the Wolves | Narrator (voice) | Television documentary |
| 2008 | Shark Swarm | Bill Girdler | Television film |
| 2008 | 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" |
| 2010 | 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 | Episode: "New Jersey/Airport" Episode: "Dad" Episode: "In the Woods - Pt 2" |
| 2012 | Blue Bloods | Leon Goodwin | Episode: "The Job" |
| 2012–2018 | Homeland | Dar Adal | 39 episodes |
| 2013 | Do No Harm | Cozar | Episode: "Six Feet Deep" |
| 2013 | 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" |
| 2019 | Chimerica | Frank Sams | 4 episodes |
| 2020–2021 | Mythic Quest | C.W. Longbottom | 18 episodes |
| 2022 | Moon Knight | Khonshu (voice) | 5 episodes |
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities | Dr. Carl Winters | Episode: "The Autopsy" |
| 2022 | The White Lotus | Bert Di Grasso | 7 episodes |
| 2023 | White House Plumbers | John Sirica | 2 episodes |

## Theatre
### Broadway

F. Murray Abraham Broadway work :
| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
| 1968–69 | The Man in the Glass Booth | Tzelniker-Rudin | Royale Theatre |
| 1972 | 6 Rms Riv Vu | The Expectant Father | Helen Hayes Theatre |
| 1974 | Ravenswood | Roy Pitt | Booth Theatre |
| 1974 | Dunelawn | Mr. Blum | Booth Theatre |
| 1975–76 | The Ritz | Chris | Longacre Theatre |
| 1976 | Legend | Jesse Lymburner | Ethel Barrymore Theatre |
| 1979–80 | Teibele and Her Demon | Alchonon | Brooks Atkinson Theatre |
| 1986–87 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Belasco Theatre |
| 1994 | Angels in America | Roy Cohn | Walter Kerr Theatre |
| 1995 | A Month in the Country | Ignaty Illyich Shpichelsky | Criterion Center Stage Right |
| 1997–98 | Triumph of Love | Hermocrates | Royale Theatre |
| 2007 | Mauritius | Sterling | The Biltmore Theatre |
| 2014–15 | It's Only a Play | Ira Drew | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre |
| 2023 | Gutenberg! The Musical! | Producer (One night only) | James Earl Jones Theatre |

### Off-Broadway and regional

F. Murray Abraham off-Broadway and regional work :
| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
| 1960 | The Fantasticks | The Actor (Henry) | Sullivan Street Playhouse, Off-Broadway |
| 1969 | Tonight in Living Color | Jonathan | Actors' Playhouse, Off-Broadway |
| 1971 | The Survival of St. Joan | Performer | Anderson Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 1971 | Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? | The Men | Eastside Playhouse, Broadway |
| 1974 | Bad Habits | Roy Pitt/Mr. Blum | Astor Place Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 1976 | 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 | The Public Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1980 | The Seagull | Yevgeny Dorn | The Public Theater, Off-Broadway |
| 1982 | The Caretaker | Davies | 23rd Street Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 1982 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 1996 | King Lear | Lear | The Public Theater, Off-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 |
| 2007 | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | The Duke on 42nd Street, Off-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 |
| 2012 | The Golden Age | Gioacchino Rossini | New York City Center, Off-Broadway |
| 2014 | The Threepenny Opera | Jonathan Peachum | Linda Gross Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2016 | White Rabbit Red Rabbit | Performer | Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 2016 | Nathan the Wise | Nathan | Classic Stage Company, Off-Broadway |
| 2018 | Good for Otto | Barnard | Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway |
| 2024 | The Queen of Versailles | David A. Siegel | Emerson Colonial Theatre, Boston |
| 2025 | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp | Irish Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway |

### West End

F. Murray Abraham West End work :
| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
| 1996 | Tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | Aldwych Theatre |
| 2017 | The Mentor | Benjamin Rubin | Vaudeville Theatre |