Talk:F. Murray Abraham
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If you're only going to make a partial list, why not include "The Name of the Rose"? 129.177.138.102 22:15, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
F. Murray Abraham was not given a credit in the "Bonfire Of The Vanities" for his role as Mayor Abe Weiss. His role as mayor of New York included numerous scenes and a fair amount of dialog. Why would an Acadamy Award winning actor not be credited in a movie where he clearly had more than just a small part?
[edit] Name at birth
IMDB, a source we cite, says he was born "Fahrid Murray Abraham", yet the article says he was born "Frederico Abrammo Monteglini". Can anyone explain this discrepancy and confirm his true birth name? JackofOz 13:02, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Italian or Arab?
I found a link to F. Murray from the list of Arab-Americans, but here it says he is from Italian heritage, so what is it?
Here is what [1]says:
"His grandfather was a legendary singer in his village in Syria, and his father was the only son to survive the famine in Syria during WWI. His father emigrated, met and married an Italian-American woman, and Abraham was born as WWII started gearing up" I will try edit this article --christos7 23:19, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
He is not Arab-American, he is ethnically Assyrian and Italian.
- A US government website states he is Italian and Assyrian; [[2]] Chaldean 22:27, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
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- How about "Italian" and "Assyrian"/"Arab" (and "American")? :-) -- 201.50.251.197 14:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Command of Italian?
I don't know much about Mr Abraham's work. I see that his mother was "an Italian American, the daughter of an immigrant", and that he has appeared in many films with titles (and I'm guessing, dialogue) in Italian. Does anybody have a cite on his level of fluency in the Italian language? -- 201.50.251.197 14:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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