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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 18, 1947
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Joseph Thomas Morton, Jr.
- Joseph Thomas Morton
- Joseph Morton
Joe Morton
1.7 Popularity
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
5.2
Elisha Bostwick (voice) /Elias Dayton (voice)
The American Revolution
2025
5.2
voice
The American Revolution
2025
10.0
Narrator
Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
2025
5.6
General Davidson
Going Dutch
2025
0.0
Monsignor Heck
Trinity's Triumph
2023
8.3
(voice)
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
3.0
Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
5.0
Inside the Black Box
2022
7.7
Teddy Franklin
Our Kind of People
2021
7.3
Ralph Ellison (voice)
Hemingway
2021
Credits
The American Revolution
as Elisha Bostwick (voice) /Elias Dayton (voice)
2025
5.2
The American Revolution
as voice
2025
5.2
Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
as Narrator
2025
10.0
Going Dutch
as General Davidson
2025
5.6
Trinity's Triumph
as Monsignor Heck
2023
0.0
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as (voice)
2022
8.3
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
3.0
Inside the Black Box
2022
5.0
Our Kind of People
as Teddy Franklin
2021
7.7
Hemingway
as Ralph Ellison (voice)
2021
7.3
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Silas Stone
2021
8.1
Between the World and Me
as Self
2020
7.9
Mr. Tornado
as Narrator (voice)
2020
7.0
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
as Self
2020
6.4
A Million Eyes
as Fern
2019
6.0
The Politician
as Marcus Standish
2019
7.0
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
4.9
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Houston Brooks
2019
6.7
God Friended Me
as Arthur Finer
2018
7.7
T2: Reprogramming The Terminator
as Self
2017
7.4
Justice League
as Silas Stone
2017
6.1
🎬
Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
as Himself
2016
3.5
All the Way
as Roy Wilkins
2016
6.7
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Silas
2016
6.0
Proof
as Dr. Charles Russell
2015
6.5
Grace and Frankie
as Jason
2015
7.7
Cleveland Abduction
as Agent Solano
2015
7.2
Home
as Donald Hall
2013
6.6
Coma
as Nelson
2012
6.4
Scandal
as Eli 'Rowan' Pope
2012
7.2
🎬
Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind
as Self
2010
0.0
White Collar
as Kyle Bancroft
2009
8.2
The Good Wife
as Daniel Golden
2009
7.6
Warehouse 13
as Reverend John Hill
2009
7.7
The Line
as Hodges
2009
4.8
Grand Central
as Narrator
2008
9.0
Lifelines
as Dr. Livingston
2008
3.4
Badland
as Max Astin
2007
6.0
American Gangster
as Charlie Williams
2007
7.6
Brothers and Sisters
as Peter Madsen
2006
7.1
Eureka
as Henry Deacon
2006
7.8
The Night Listener
as Ashe
2006
5.5
The Nuremberg Trials
as Narrator (voice)
2006
8.0
E-Ring
as Steven Algazi
2005
7.9
Lenny The Wonder Dog
as Dr. Island
2005
4.1
Stealth
as Dick Marshfield
2005
5.5
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
as Additional Voices
2005
0.0
Back in the Day
as Reverend Packer
2005
4.9
Building the Alaska Highway
as Narrator (voice)
2005
0.0
Numb3rs
as Peter Lange
2005
7.0
Gone But Not Forgotten
as Reggie Stewart
2005
4.9
House
as Gary Wright
2004
8.6
Boston Legal
as Attorney Steve Duprey
2004
7.9
CSI: NY
as Dwight Hillborne
2004
7.4
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
2004
7.1
The Jury
2004
7.0
Paycheck
as Agent Dodge
2003
6.2
Whoopi
as Martin James
2003
8.7
Jasper, Texas
as Walter Diggles
2003
5.8
Thoughtcrimes
as Jon Harper
2003
6.4
Dragonfly
as Hugh Campbell
2002
6.5
Ali
as Chauncey Eskridge
2001
6.8
Africa: The Leopards of Zanzibar
as Narrator
2001
0.0
Smallville
as Steven Hamilton
2001
8.2
Africa
as Narrator
2001
0.0
Beyond Human
as Narrator
2001
0.0
Bounce
as Jim Willer
2000
5.8
Ali: An American Hero
as Malcom X
2000
4.8
What Lies Beneath
as Dr. Drayton
2000
6.4
Y2K
as Martin Lowell
1999
3.5
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Ray Bevins
1999
7.9
The Astronaut's Wife
as Sherman Reese
1999
5.6
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
as Self - Narrator
1999
5.0
Apt Pupil
as Dan Richler
1998
6.5
Mercy Point
as Dr. Grote Maxwell
1998
0.0
Blues Brothers 2000
as Cab Chamberlain
1998
5.3
Trouble on the Corner
as Detective Bill
1997
1.7
Dellaventura
as Councilman Caulder
1997
0.0
Speed 2: Cruise Control
as Lt. Herb 'Mac' McMahon (uncredited)
1997
4.6
🎬
Prince Street
1997
9.0
The Practice
as U.S. Attorney
1997
7.6
Miss Evers' Boys
as Dr. Sam Brodus
1997
6.3
The Pest
as Mr. Kent
1997
4.7
Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
as Gordon Thomas
1996
4.9
Lone Star
as Delmore "Del" Payne
1996
7.0
Executive Decision
as Cappy
1996
6.3
New York News
as Mitch Cotter
1995
0.0
🎬
Under One Roof
as Ron Langston
1995
0.0
The Walking Dead
as Sgt. Barkley
1995
5.8
In the Shadow of Evil
as Lt. Royce
1995
4.3
Touched by an Angel
as Jake Stone
1994
7.2
Touched by an Angel
as Martin Hunter
1994
7.2
New York Undercover
1994
7.2
Speed
as Capt. McMahon
1994
7.1
The Inkwell
as Kenny Tate
1994
5.3
Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
as Narrator
1994
7.0
The Great Depression
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1993
0.0
The X-Files
as Martin Wells
1993
8.4
🎬
TriBeCa
1993
6.0
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Sam Thorne
1993
8.1
The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's
as Narrator
1993
0.0
T2: More Than Meets the Eye
as Self
1993
6.7
Forever Young
as Cameron
1992
6.5
Of Mice and Men
as Crooks
1992
7.2
Legacy of Lies
as Samuel Flowers
1992
6.0
City of Hope
as Winn
1991
6.6
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
as Miles Dyson
1991
8.1
The Good Policeman
as Sweets Montgomery
1991
0.0
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Leon Chiles
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Roland Books
1990
7.4
The Lost Platoon
as World War II soldier
1990
4.1
Equal Justice
as Mike James
1990
6.3
Challenger
as Dr. Ronald McNair
1990
6.2
Making a Case for Murder
as Cederic Sandiford
1989
0.0
Tap
as Nicky
1989
6.8
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
as Tandy
1988
6.0
Police Story: Burnout
as Sgt. Jeff Allen
1988
0.0
The Good Mother
as Frank Williams
1988
5.7
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
6.9
Zelly & Me
as Earl
1988
5.7
Alone in the Neon Jungle
as Ken Fraker
1988
3.7
Stranded
as Sheriff McMahon
1987
5.2
A Different World
as Byron Douglas III
1987
7.0
Crossroads
as Scratch's Assistant
1986
7.4
Trouble in Mind
as Solo
1985
5.7
The Equalizer
as Slate
1985
7.1
The Equalizer
as Carter Brock
1985
7.1
Miami Vice
as Lt. Jack Davis
1984
7.5
The Brother from Another Planet
as The Brother
1984
6.6
A Good Sport
as Lionel Zachary
1984
0.0
Curse of the Pink Panther
as Charlie
1983
4.6
The Clairvoyant
as Detective Rich
1982
5.0
Nature
as Narrator (voice)
1982
7.8
We're Fighting Back
as Elgin Jones
1981
6.0
Death Penalty
as William Terry
1980
0.0
...And Justice for All
as Prison Doctor
1979
7.1
Lawman Without a Gun
as Louis
1979
0.0
🎬
Watch Your Mouth
as Mr. Raymond Geeter
1978
0.0
Between the Lines
as Ahmed
1977
5.1
What's Happening!!
1976
7.4
Grady
as Hal Marshall
1975
5.0
NOVA
as Additional Narration
1974
7.0
NOVA
as Narrator
1974
7.0
M*A*S*H
as Captain Saunders
1972
7.9
Sanford and Son
1972
7.4
Mission: Impossible
as Clerk
1966
7.6
🎬
War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
as Narrator
N/A
1.0
NOVA: Addiction
N/A
0.0