
Joe Morton
Department: Acting
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

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991

Lawman Without a Gun
1979

Speed
1994

Stealth
2005

City of Hope
1991

Dragonfly
2002

Executive Decision
1996

Forever Young
1992

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
2005

The Astronaut's Wife
1999

American Gangster
2007

The Line
2009

Blues Brothers 2000
1998

Badland
2007

Ali
2001

Trouble in Mind
1985

The Brother from Another Planet
1984

The Night Listener
2006

Paycheck
2003

Back in the Day
2005

Lone Star
1996

Thoughtcrimes
2003

Crossroads
1986

...And Justice for All
1979

Africa: The Leopards of Zanzibar
2001

Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind
2010

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
1999

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020

Stranded
1987

The Walking Dead
1995

The Inkwell
1994

Death Penalty
1980

Miss Evers' Boys
1997

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
1996

Y2K
1999

Home
2013

Alone in the Neon Jungle
1988

Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
1988

A Good Sport
1984

Curse of the Pink Panther
1983

Of Mice and Men
1992

We're Fighting Back
1981

The Lost Platoon
1990

Bounce
2000

Trinity's Triumph
2023

Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997

Apt Pupil
1998

Ali: An American Hero
2000

Cleveland Abduction
2015

Legacy of Lies
1992

Lenny The Wonder Dog
2005

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016

All the Way
2016

Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
2016

What Lies Beneath
2000

Justice League
2017

The Clairvoyant
1982

Between the Lines
1977

Challenger
1990

Zelly & Me
1988

Grand Central
2008

Lifelines
2008

Police Story: Burnout
1988

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004

Tap
1989

In the Shadow of Evil
1995

T2: Reprogramming The Terminator
2017

The Nuremberg Trials
2006

The Pest
1997

War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
—

A Million Eyes
2019

Gone But Not Forgotten
2005

Jasper, Texas
2003

Mr. Tornado
2020

Building the Alaska Highway
2005

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
1994

The Good Mother
1988

Between the World and Me
2020

The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's
1993

Making a Case for Murder
1989

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021

NOVA: Addiction
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T2: More Than Meets the Eye
1993

Beyond Human
2001

Trouble on the Corner
1997

The Good Policeman
1991

Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
2025

A Different World
1987

Law & Order
1990

M*A*S*H
1972

Numb3rs
2005

Brothers and Sisters
2006

Touched by an Angel
1994

E-Ring
2005

What's Happening!!
1976

CSI: NY
2004

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Sanford and Son
1972

New York Undercover
1994

The Practice
1997

The X-Files
1993

Mercy Point
1998

The Equalizer
1985

Smallville
2001

Grady
1975

Eureka
2006

Homicide: Life on the Street
1993

Boston Legal
2004

The Jury
2004

Under One Roof
1995

New York News
1995

TriBeCa
1993

Nature
1982

Warehouse 13
2009

Equal Justice
1990

Prince Street
1997

Our Kind of People
2021

Hemingway
2021

Africa
2001

NOVA
1974

NOVA
1974

White Collar
2009

Coma
2012

Proof
2015

Touched by an Angel
1994

Tamron Hall
2019

Inside the Black Box
2022

The Good Wife
2009

Watch Your Mouth
1978

American Experience
1988

The Great Depression
1993

Law & Order
1990

Mission: Impossible
1966

Sherri
2022

Scandal
2012

God Friended Me
2018

The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022

House
2004

The Politician
2019

Grace and Frankie
2015

Dellaventura
1997

Miami Vice
1984

Whoopi
2003

The Equalizer
1985

Going Dutch
2025

The American Revolution
2025

American Playhouse
1982