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








