Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

147

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-10-18 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

Joseph Thomas Morton, Jr.
Joseph Thomas Morton
Joseph Morton
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Joe Morton

Biography

Joe Morton is an American stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for his Emmy awarded role as Eli Pope in the television series Scandal, and for playing Reverend Arthur Finer on God Friended Me. Morton studied Drama at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

Known For

6.0%

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Mar 23, 2016

8.1%

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Jul 3, 1991

6.1%

Justice League

Nov 15, 2017

8.1%

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Mar 18, 2021

8.6%

House

Nov 16, 2004

7.1%

Speed

Jun 9, 1994

6.7%

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

May 29, 2019

7.6%

American Gangster

Nov 2, 2007

8.2%

Smallville

Oct 16, 2001

7.9%

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Sep 20, 1999

8.4%

The X-Files

Sep 10, 1993

6.4%

What Lies Beneath

Jul 21, 2000

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Acting

—		War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator as Narrator
—		NOVA: Addiction

2025		Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP as Narrator
2025		Going Dutch as General Davidson

2023

Trinity's Triumph as Monsignor Heck

2022		The U.S. and the Holocaust as (voice)
2022		Sherri as Self - Guest
2022		Inside the Black Box

2021		Our Kind of People as Teddy Franklin
2021		Hemingway as Ralph Ellison (voice)
2021		Zack Snyder's Justice League as Silas Stone

2020		Between the World and Me as Self
2020		Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi as Self
2020		Mr. Tornado as Narrator (voice)

2019		A Million Eyes as Fern
2019		The Politician as Marcus Standish
2019		Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2019		Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Dr. Houston Brooks

2018

God Friended Me as Arthur Finer

2017		T2: Reprogramming The Terminator as Self
2017		Justice League as Silas Stone

2016		Brett Gelman's Dinner in America as Himself
2016		All the Way as Roy Wilkins
2016		Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Silas

2015		Proof as Dr. Charles Russell
2015		Grace and Frankie as Jason
2015		Cleveland Abduction as Agent Solano

2013

Home as Donald Hall

2012		Coma as Nelson
2012		Scandal as Eli 'Rowan' Pope

2010

Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind as Self

2009		White Collar as Kyle Bancroft
2009		The Good Wife as Daniel Golden
2009		Warehouse 13 as Reverend John Hill
2009		The Line as Hodges

2008		Grand Central as Narrator
2008		Lifelines as Dr. Livingston

2007		Badland as Max Astin
2007		American Gangster as Charlie Williams

2006		Brothers and Sisters as Peter Madsen
2006		Eureka as Henry Deacon
2006		The Night Listener as Ashe
2006		The Nuremberg Trials as Narrator (voice)

2005		E-Ring as Steven Algazi
2005		Lenny The Wonder Dog as Dr. Island
2005		Stealth as Dick Marshfield
2005		Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today as Additional Voices
2005		Back in the Day as Reverend Packer
2005		Building the Alaska Highway as Narrator (voice)
2005		Numb3rs
2005		Gone But Not Forgotten as Reggie Stewart

2004		House as Gary Wright
2004		Boston Legal as Attorney Steve Duprey
2004		CSI: NY as Dwight Hillborne
2004		Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004		The Jury

2003		Paycheck as Agent Dodge
2003		Whoopi as Martin James
2003		Jasper, Texas as Walter Diggles
2003		Thoughtcrimes as Jon Harper

2002

Dragonfly as Hugh Campbell

2001		Ali as Chauncey Eskridge
2001		Africa: The Leopards of Zanzibar as Narrator
2001		Smallville as Steven Hamilton
2001		Africa as Narrator
2001		Beyond Human as Narrator

2000		Bounce as Jim Willer
2000		Ali: An American Hero as Malcom X
2000		What Lies Beneath as Dr. Drayton

1999		Y2K as Martin Lowell
1999		Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Ray Bevins
1999		The Astronaut's Wife as Sherman Reese
1999		The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords as Self - Narrator

1998		Apt Pupil as Dan Richler
1998		Mercy Point as Dr. Grote Maxwell
1998		Blues Brothers 2000 as Cab Chamberlain

1997		Trouble on the Corner as Detective Bill
1997		Dellaventura as Councilman Caulder
1997		Speed 2: Cruise Control as Lt. Herb 'Mac' McMahon (uncredited)
1997		Prince Street
1997		The Practice
1997		Miss Evers' Boys as Dr. Sam Brodus
1997		The Pest as Mr. Kent

1996		Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance as Gordon Thomas
1996		Lone Star as Del
1996		Executive Decision as Cappy

1995		New York News as Mitch Cotter
1995		Under One Roof as Ron Langston
1995		The Walking Dead as Sgt. Barkley
1995		In the Shadow of Evil as Lt. Royce
1995		American Cinema as Narrator

1994		Touched by an Angel as Jake Stone
1994		Touched by an Angel as Martin Hunter
1994		New York Undercover
1994		Speed as Capt. McMahon
1994		The Inkwell as Kenny Tate
1994		Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance as Narrator

1993		The Great Depression as Self - Narrator (voice)
1993		The X-Files as Martin Wells
1993		TriBeCa
1993		Homicide: Life on the Street as Sam Thorne
1993		T2: More Than Meets the Eye as Self
1993		The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's as Narrator

1992		Forever Young as Cameron
1992		Of Mice and Men as Crooks
1992		Legacy of Lies as Samuel Flowers

1991		City of Hope as Winn
1991		Terminator 2: Judgment Day as Miles Dyson
1991		The Good Policeman as Sweets Montgomery

1990		Law & Order as Defense Attorney Leon Chiles
1990		Law & Order as Roland Books
1990		The Lost Platoon as World War II soldier
1990		Equal Justice as Mike James
1990		Challenger as Dr. Ronald McNair

1989		Making a Case for Murder as Cederic Sandiford
1989		Tap as Nicky

1988		Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami as Tandy
1988		Police Story: Burnout as Sgt. Jeff Allen
1988		The Good Mother as Frank Williams
1988		American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1988		Zelly & Me as Earl
1988		Alone in the Neon Jungle as Ken Fraker

1987		Stranded as Sheriff McMahon
1987		A Different World as Byron Douglas III

1986

Crossroads as Scratch's Assistant

1985		Trouble in Mind as Solo
1985		The Equalizer as Slate
1985		The Equalizer as Carter Brock

1984		Miami Vice as Lt. Jack Davis
1984		The Brother from Another Planet as The Brother
1984		A Good Sport as Lionel Zachary

1983

Curse of the Pink Panther as Charlie

1982		The Clairvoyant as Detective Rich
1982		Nature as Narrator (voice)

1981

We're Fighting Back as Elgin Jones

1980

Death Penalty as William Terry

1979		...And Justice for All as Prison Doctor
1979		Lawman Without a Gun as Louis

1978

Watch Your Mouth as Mr. Raymond Geeter

1977

Between the Lines as Ahmed

1976

What's Happening!!

1975

Grady as Hal Marshall

1974		NOVA as Narrator
1974		NOVA as Additional Narration

1972		MAS*H as Captain Saunders
1972		Sanford and Son

1966

Mission: Impossible as Clerk

Directing

2018

God Friended Me as Director

2016

Bull as Director

2012

Scandal as Director

2006

Eureka as Director