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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. F. Murray Abraham (1939 - ) Actor Born: October 24, 1939, Pittsburgh, PA Education: University of Texas; HB Studios, NY Experienced stage actor with an expressive, pock-marked face and a well-modulated speaking voice. Prior to Abraham's bravura, award-winning performance as Salieri in Miloš Forman's acclaimed film, AMADEUS (1984), he had appeared on TV and film mostly in bit-part capacity. After AMADEUS (1984), the actor appeared in EL NOMBRE DE LA ROSA (1986), the prodigious misfire THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (1990), and as Wolf Sr., a hunter of the homeless, in the urban fantasy film EL JUEGO ES MATAR (1994). His stage work of the same era included the vaunted Mike Nichols' production of WAITING FOR GODOT (1988) opposite Robin Williams and Steve Martin. For all of his talent, Abraham seemed to get typecast in Machiavellian roles or as the spokesman of culture. Salieri, the all-too-human composer in the age of Mozart, ostensibly set the pattern for the actor's TV appearances, which have echoed the role's high-toned, sometimes operatic cadence. He has hosted numerous televised Metropolitan Opera presentations, narrated several science specials and played Pope Julius II in a 1991 miniseries A SEASON OF GIANTS. A professor of theater at Brooklyn College, Abraham has also portrayed academics in a fine TV adaptation of Vaclav Havel's play Largo Desolato (1990) and in a version of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993). In 1994, he joined the cast of Angels in America, Tony Kushner's adulated Broadway play, appointed with the difficult task of replacing Ron Liebman, playing one of history's most famous witch hunters, Roy Cohn. Undergoing a sort of manic decay, the Roy Cohn role was a plum for Abraham: Cohn opened the instant classic Angels first act, Millennium Approaches. Abraham's performance was acclaimed for its intelligence rather than his predecessor's whirling vitriol. Academy Awards Actor 1984: AMADEUS (1984)
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