F. Murray Abraham's last scene in Amadeus
F. Murray Abraham (1939 - )
Film Deaths[]
- Scarface (1983) [Omar Suarez]: Hanged when Paul Shenar's thugs drop him from a helicopter, while Al Pacino watches through binoculars.
- Amadeus (1984) [Antonio Salier]: His death is not mentioned in the dialogue, but he dies of old age two years after the sugar roll scene that followed an overnight talk with Richard Frank.
- The Name of the Rose (1986) [Bernardo Gui]: Impaled on a hay thresher after angry villagers push his carriage over an embankment.
- Mobsters (1991) [Arnold Rothstein]: Shot in the back of the head by an assassin while playing a game of poker.
- Eye of the Widow (1991) [Kharoun]: Dies when the bomb put on his yacht by Richard Young explodes.
- Last Action Hero (1993) [John Practice]: Shot in the back by a cartoon cat (voiced by Danny DeVito) as F. Murray is about to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Sweet Killing (1993) [Zargo]: Accidentally poisoned when he drinks the wine with which Anthony Higgins was planning to commit suicide.
- Surviving the Game (1994) [Derek Wolfe, Sr.]: Neck snapped by Ice-T.
- Dillinger and Capone (1995 Video) [Al Capone]: It's not seen on-screen but later a title card reads based on historical facts that his character died in Florida on January 25, 1947 from complications due to syphilis.
- Children of the Revolution (1996) [Josef Stalin]: Dies of a stroke. (I believe he was shown lying on his deathbed, but I can't recall for certain.)
- Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) [Ahdar Ru'afo]: Killed in an explosion after Patrick Stewart activates the self-destruct on F. Murray's ship. (In an alternate scene, he fled in an escape pod towards the rings of the Ba'ku planet, where the intensity of the rings' rejuvenating properties caused him to "de-age" until he disappeared completely). (F. was wearing prosthetic makeup for this role)
- Thir13en Ghosts (2001) [Cyrus Kriticos]: Sliced to pieces by the whirling blades of his demonic machinery after the ghosts throw him in.
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) [Mr. Moustafa]: Presumably dies (off-screen) between the passage of time between the scenes in the 60s and present day.
- How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019; animated) [Grimmel the Grisly]: Playing a voice role, he falls to his death or drowns after plummeting into the sea during an airborne dragon battle.
- Things Heard & Seen (2021) [Floyd DeBeers]: Drowned off-screen by James Norton. His death is revealed when Amanda Seyfried hears the news about it on the radio.
Television Deaths[]
- Kojak: The Godson (1977) [Eddie Gordon]: He and his gang are gunned down by the cops as they try to hijack an armored car.
- BloodMonkey (2007 TV) [Professor Hamilton]: Impaled by a spiked log that swings towards him when he sets off a booby-trap that the intelligent monkeys had set up in the jungle.
- Mythic Quest; Across the Universe (2022) [C.W. Longbottom]: Commits suicide (off screen) by driving off a cliff after being diagnosed with an unspecified disease; Abraham does not appear in the episode, but his death is revealed in a letter written by his character that David Hornsby reads to the rest of the cast.
- Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: The Autopsy (2022) [Dr. Carl Winters]: Slashes his own throat with a scalpel after gouging out his eyes and puncturing his ear drums, in order to trap a parasite inside his body and starve it to death.
Gallery[]
F. Murray Abraham's body hanging in Scarface
F. Murray Abraham's death in Eye of the Widow
F. Murray Abraham's death in Last Action Hero
F. Murray Abraham in Surviving the Game
F. Murray Abraham's death in Star Trek Insurrection
F. Murray Abraham's death in Thirteen Ghosts