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F. Murray Abraham
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Tall, balding character actor of Arabic descent and intense presence. Originally a stage star, his movie career seems decidedly secondary, though he is always compelling, whether as the Abbie Hoffman-like fugitive in The Big Fix (1978), the Bolivian drug lord in Scarface (1983), or the frustrated composer Salieri (his Oscar-winning tour de force) in Amadeus (1984). Abraham demonstrated his comic ability with a hilarious turn as a gay bathhouse denizen in The Ritz (1976), his icy determination as an inquisitor in The Name of the Rose (1986), a convict in An Innocent Man (1989), and his prescience in working without billing in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1991), as the paranoid New York district attorney running for mayor. In 1993 he turned up in two spoofs, National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 and Last Action Hero in which heavy-handed comic reference was made to his role as Salieri.
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