FrameThrower · Actors · F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham
5 films · 278 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1983–2019
Born 24 October 1939 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
F. Murray Abraham 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).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 278 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1983–2019
- Academy Award for Best Actor1985
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1985
How their films are shot
Measured across 278 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work F. takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work F. takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 278 frames from F. Murray Abraham's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.