Oct 18, 1947 - New York City, New York, USA
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.
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| Movie | 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Miles Dyson | |
| Movie | 1979 | Lawman Without a Gun | Louis | |
| Movie | 1994 | Speed | Capt. McMahon | |
| Movie | 2005 | Stealth | Dick Marshfield | |
| Movie | 1991 | City of Hope | Winn | |
| Movie | 2002 | Dragonfly | Hugh Campbell | |
| Movie | 1996 | Executive Decision | Cappy | |
| Movie | 1992 | Forever Young | Cameron | |
| Movie | 2005 | Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today | Additional Voices | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Astronaut's Wife | Sherman Reese | |
| Movie | 2007 | American Gangster | Charlie Williams | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Line | Hodges | |
| Movie | 1998 | Blues Brothers 2000 | Cab Chamberlain | |
| Movie | 2007 | Badland | Max Astin | |
| Movie | 2001 | Ali | Chauncey Eskridge | |
| Movie | 1985 | Trouble in Mind | Solo | |
| Movie | 1984 | The Brother from Another Planet | The Brother | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Night Listener | Ashe | |
| Movie | 2003 | Paycheck | Agent Dodge | |
| Movie | 2005 | Back in the Day | Reverend Packer | |
| Movie | 1996 | Lone Star | Del | |
| Movie | 2003 | Thoughtcrimes | Jon Harper | |
| Movie | 1986 | Crossroads | Scratch's Assistant | |
| Movie | 1979 | ...And Justice for All | Prison Doctor | |
| Movie | 2001 | Africa: The Leopards of Zanzibar | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2010 | Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind | Self | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords | Self - Narrator | |
| Movie | 2020 | Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi | Self | |
| Movie | 1987 | Stranded | Sheriff McMahon | |
| Movie | 1995 | The Walking Dead | Sgt. Barkley | |
| Movie | 1994 | The Inkwell | Kenny Tate | |
| Movie | 1980 | Death Penalty | William Terry | |
| Movie | 1997 | Miss Evers' Boys | Dr. Sam Brodus | |
| Movie | 1996 | Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance | Gordon Thomas | |
| Movie | 1999 | Y2K | Martin Lowell | |
| Movie | 2013 | Home | Donald Hall | |
| Movie | 1988 | Alone in the Neon Jungle | Ken Fraker | |
| Movie | 1988 | Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami | Tandy | |
| Movie | 1984 | A Good Sport | Lionel Zachary | |
| Movie | 1983 | Curse of the Pink Panther | Charlie | |
| Movie | 1992 | Of Mice and Men | Crooks | |
| Movie | 1981 | We're Fighting Back | Elgin Jones | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Lost Platoon | World War II soldier | |
| Movie | 2000 | Bounce | Jim Willer | |
| Movie | 2023 | Trinity's Triumph | Monsignor Heck | |
| Movie | 1997 | Speed 2: Cruise Control | Lt. Herb 'Mac' McMahon (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1998 | Apt Pupil | Dan Richler | |
| Movie | 2000 | Ali: An American Hero | Malcom X | |
| Movie | 2015 | Cleveland Abduction | Agent Solano | |
| Movie | 1992 | Legacy of Lies | Samuel Flowers | |
| Movie | 2005 | Lenny The Wonder Dog | Dr. Island | |
| Movie | 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Silas | |
| Movie | 2016 | All the Way | Roy Wilkins | |
| Movie | 2016 | Brett Gelman's Dinner in America | Himself | |
| Movie | 2000 | What Lies Beneath | Dr. Drayton | |
| Movie | 2017 | Justice League | Silas Stone | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Clairvoyant | Detective Rich | |
| Movie | 1977 | Between the Lines | Ahmed | |
| Movie | 1990 | Challenger | Dr. Ronald McNair | |
| Movie | 1988 | Zelly & Me | Earl | |
| Movie | 2008 | Grand Central | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2008 | Lifelines | Dr. Livingston | |
| Movie | 1988 | Police Story: Burnout | Sgt. Jeff Allen | |
| Movie | 2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Dr. Houston Brooks | |
| Movie | 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | |
| Movie | 1989 | Tap | Nicky | |
| Movie | 1995 | In the Shadow of Evil | Lt. Royce | |
| Movie | 2017 | T2: Reprogramming The Terminator | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Nuremberg Trials | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Pest | Mr. Kent | |
| Movie | N/A | War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2019 | A Million Eyes | Fern | |
| Movie | 2005 | Gone But Not Forgotten | Reggie Stewart | |
| Movie | 2003 | Jasper, Texas | Walter Diggles | |
| Movie | 2020 | Mr. Tornado | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2005 | Building the Alaska Highway | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1994 | Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1988 | The Good Mother | Frank Williams | |
| Movie | 2020 | Between the World and Me | Self | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1989 | Making a Case for Murder | Cederic Sandiford | |
| Movie | 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Silas Stone | |
| Movie | 1995 | American Cinema | Narrator | |
| Movie | N/A | NOVA: Addiction | ||
| Movie | 1993 | T2: More Than Meets the Eye | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | Beyond Human | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1997 | Trouble on the Corner | Detective Bill | |
| Movie | 1991 | The Good Policeman | Sweets Montgomery | |
| Movie | 2025 | Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP | Narrator | |
| TV Show | 1987 | A Different World | Byron Douglas III | 7 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Law & Order | Defense Attorney Leon Chiles | 4 |
| TV Show | 1972 | M*A*S*H | Captain Saunders | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Numb3rs | Peter Lange | 1 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Brothers and Sisters | Peter Madsen | 2 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Jake Stone | 1 |
| TV Show | 1976 | What's Happening!! | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2005 | E-Ring | Steven Algazi | 22 |
| TV Show | 2004 | CSI: NY | Dwight Hillborne | 2 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Ray Bevins | 1 |
| TV Show | 1972 | Sanford and Son | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1994 | New York Undercover | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1997 | The Practice | U.S. Attorney | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | The X-Files | Martin Wells | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Mercy Point | Dr. Grote Maxwell | 8 |
| TV Show | 1985 | The Equalizer | Slate | 1 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Smallville | Steven Hamilton | 4 |
| TV Show | 1975 | Grady | Hal Marshall | 10 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Eureka | Henry Deacon | 77 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Sam Thorne | 2 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Boston Legal | Attorney Steve Duprey | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | The Jury | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1995 | Under One Roof | Ron Langston | 6 |
| TV Show | 1995 | New York News | Mitch Cotter | 13 |
| TV Show | 1993 | TriBeCa | 7 | |
| TV Show | 1982 | Nature | Narrator (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Warehouse 13 | Reverend John Hill | 1 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Equal Justice | Mike James | 27 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Prince Street | 6 | |
| TV Show | 2021 | Our Kind of People | Teddy Franklin | 12 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Hemingway | Ralph Ellison (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Africa | Narrator | 8 |
| TV Show | 1974 | NOVA | Additional Narration | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | NOVA | Narrator | 2 |
| TV Show | 2009 | White Collar | Kyle Bancroft | 1 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Coma | Nelson | 2 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Proof | Dr. Charles Russell | 10 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Martin Hunter | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Tamron Hall | Self - Guest | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Inside the Black Box | 20 | |
| TV Show | 2009 | The Good Wife | Daniel Golden | 11 |
| TV Show | 1978 | Watch Your Mouth | Mr. Raymond Geeter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 8 |
| TV Show | 1993 | The Great Depression | Self - Narrator (voice) | 7 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Law & Order | Roland Books | 1 |
| TV Show | 1966 | Mission: Impossible | Clerk | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Sherri | Self - Guest | 1 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Scandal | Eli 'Rowan' Pope | 88 |
| TV Show | 2018 | God Friended Me | Arthur Finer | 42 |
| TV Show | 2022 | The U.S. and the Holocaust | (voice) | 3 |
| TV Show | 2004 | House | Gary Wright | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | The Politician | Marcus Standish | 4 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Grace and Frankie | Jason | 2 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Dellaventura | Councilman Caulder | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Miami Vice | Lt. Jack Davis | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Whoopi | Martin James | 1 |
| TV Show | 1985 | The Equalizer | Carter Brock | 3 |
| TV Show | 2025 | Going Dutch | General Davidson | 5 |
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| TV Show | 2006 | Eureka | Director | Directing |
| TV Show | 2012 | Scandal | Director | Directing |
| TV Show | 2018 | God Friended Me | Director | Directing |
| TV Show | 2016 | Bull | Director | Directing |
