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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-10-18 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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Law & Order

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House

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M*A*S*H

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The X-Files

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Smallville

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NOVA

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Tamron Hall

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CSI: NY

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The Good Wife

Acting

2025

Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP as Narrator

Going Dutch as General Davidson

2023

Trinity's Triumph as Monsignor Heck

2022

Inside the Black Box

Sherri as Self - Guest

The U.S. and the Holocaust as (voice)

2021

Zack Snyder's Justice League as Silas Stone

Our Kind of People as Teddy Franklin

Hemingway as Ralph Ellison (voice)

2020

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi as Self

Mr. Tornado as Narrator (voice)

Between the World and Me as Self

2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Dr. Houston Brooks

A Million Eyes as Fern

Tamron Hall as Self - Guest

The Politician as Marcus Standish

2018

God Friended Me as Arthur Finer

2017

Justice League as Silas Stone

T2: Reprogramming The Terminator as Self

2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Silas

All the Way as Roy Wilkins

Brett Gelman's Dinner in America as Himself

2015

Cleveland Abduction as Agent Solano

Proof as Dr. Charles Russell

Grace and Frankie as Jason

2013

Home as Donald Hall

2012

Coma as Nelson

Scandal as Eli 'Rowan' Pope

2010

Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind as Self

2009

The Line as Hodges

Warehouse 13 as Reverend John Hill

White Collar as Kyle Bancroft

The Good Wife as Daniel Golden

2008

Grand Central as Narrator

Lifelines as Dr. Livingston

2007

American Gangster as Charlie Williams

Badland as Max Astin

2006

The Night Listener as Ashe

The Nuremberg Trials as Narrator (voice)

Brothers and Sisters as Peter Madsen

Eureka as Henry Deacon

2005

Stealth as Dick Marshfield

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today as Additional Voices

Back in the Day as Reverend Packer

Lenny The Wonder Dog as Dr. Island

Gone But Not Forgotten as Reggie Stewart

Building the Alaska Highway as Narrator (voice)

E-Ring as Steven Algazi

2004

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)

CSI: NY as Dwight Hillborne

Boston Legal as Attorney Steve Duprey

House as Gary Wright

2003

Paycheck as Agent Dodge

Thoughtcrimes as Jon Harper

Jasper, Texas as Walter Diggles

Whoopi as Martin James

2002

Dragonfly as Hugh Campbell

2001

Ali as Chauncey Eskridge

Africa: The Leopards of Zanzibar as Narrator

Beyond Human as Narrator

Smallville as Steven Hamilton

Africa as Narrator

2000

Bounce as Jim Willer

Ali: An American Hero as Malcom X

What Lies Beneath as Dr. Drayton

1999

The Astronaut's Wife as Sherman Reese

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords as Self - Narrator

Y2K as Martin Lowell

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Ray Bevins

1998

Blues Brothers 2000 as Cab Chamberlain

Apt Pupil as Dan Richler

Mercy Point as Dr. Grote Maxwell

1997

Miss Evers' Boys as Dr. Sam Brodus

Speed 2: Cruise Control as Lt. Herb 'Mac' McMahon (uncredited)

The Pest as Mr. Kent

Trouble on the Corner as Detective Bill

Dellaventura as Councilman Caulder

1996

Executive Decision as Cappy

Lone Star as Del

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance as Gordon Thomas

1995

The Walking Dead as Sgt. Barkley

In the Shadow of Evil as Lt. Royce

American Cinema as Narrator

Under One Roof as Ron Langston

New York News as Mitch Cotter

1994

Speed as Capt. McMahon

The Inkwell as Kenny Tate

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance as Narrator

Touched by an Angel as Jake Stone

New York Undercover

Touched by an Angel as Martin Hunter

1993

The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's as Narrator

T2: More Than Meets the Eye as Self

The X-Files as Martin Wells

Homicide: Life on the Street as Sam Thorne

The Great Depression as Self - Narrator (voice)

1992

Forever Young as Cameron

Of Mice and Men as Crooks

Legacy of Lies as Samuel Flowers

1991

Terminator 2: Judgment Day as Miles Dyson

City of Hope as Winn

The Good Policeman as Sweets Montgomery

1990

The Lost Platoon as World War II soldier

Challenger as Dr. Ronald McNair

Law & Order as Defense Attorney Leon Chiles

Equal Justice as Mike James

Law & Order as Roland Books

1989

Tap as Nicky

Making a Case for Murder as Cederic Sandiford

1988

Alone in the Neon Jungle as Ken Fraker

Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami as Tandy

Zelly & Me as Earl

Police Story: Burnout as Sgt. Jeff Allen

The Good Mother as Frank Williams

American Experience as Narrator (voice)

1987

Stranded as Sheriff McMahon

A Different World as Byron Douglas III

1986

Crossroads as Scratch's Assistant

1985

Trouble in Mind as Solo

The Equalizer as Slate

The Equalizer as Carter Brock

1984

The Brother from Another Planet as The Brother

A Good Sport as Lionel Zachary

Miami Vice as Lt. Jack Davis

1983

Curse of the Pink Panther as Charlie

1982

The Clairvoyant as Detective Rich

Nature as Narrator (voice)

1981

We're Fighting Back as Elgin Jones

1980

Death Penalty as William Terry

1979

Lawman Without a Gun as Louis

...And Justice for All as Prison Doctor

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

NOVA as Additional Narration

1972

M*A*S*H as Captain Saunders

Sanford and Son

1966

Mission: Impossible as Clerk

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War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator as Narrator

NOVA: Addiction

Directing

2018

God Friended Me as Director

2016

Bull as Director

2012

Scandal as Director

2006

Eureka as Director