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Joe Morton

Acting

Born October 18, 1947 · New York City, New York, USA

Also known as Joseph Thomas Morton, Jr. · Joseph Thomas Morton · Joseph 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.

Awards & recognition

  • Lucille Lortel AwardOutstanding Lead Actor in a Play · 2017
  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series · 2014
  • Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award · 1984
  • Theatre World Award · 1974
  • Tony AwardBest Actor in a Musical · 1974 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Making a Case for Murder

1989as Cederic Sandiford

House

2004as Gary Wright

The X-Files

1993as Martin Wells

The U.S. and the Holocaust

2022as Self (voice)

White Collar

2009as Kyle Bancroft

Smallville

2001as Steven Hamilton

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991as Miles Dyson

Zack Snyder's Justice League

2021as Silas Stone

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993as Sam Thorne

Between the World and Me

2020as Self

Boston Legal

2004as Attorney Steve Duprey

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999as Ray Bevins

Nature

1982as Narrator (voice)

M*A*S*H

1972as Captain Saunders

Our Kind of People

as Teddy Franklin

God Friended Me

2018as Arthur Finer

Grace and Frankie

2015as Jason

Warehouse 13

2009as Reverend John Hill

Eureka

2006as Henry Deacon

The Practice

1997as U.S. Attorney

The Good Wife

2009as Daniel Golden

American Gangster

2007as Charlie Williams

Mission: Impossible

1966as Clerk

Hemingway

2021as Ralph Ellison (voice)

Miami Vice

1984as Lt. Jack Davis

Sanford and Son

1972

Grady

as Hal Marshall

What's Happening!!

1976as Manager

CSI: NY

2004as Dwight Hillborne

New York Undercover

1994

Of Mice and Men

1992as Crooks

Law & Order

1990as Defense Attorney Leon Chiles

Crossroads

1986as Scratch's Assistant

Cleveland Abduction

2015as Agent Solano

Scandal

2012as Eli 'Rowan' Pope

Speed

1994as Capt. McMahon

Touched by an Angel

1994as Martin Hunter

Brothers and Sisters

2006as Peter Madsen

And Justice for All

1979as Prison Doctor

Mr. Tornado

2020as Narrator (voice)

The Politician

2019as Marcus Standish

Bull

2016Director

Numb3rs

2005as Peter Lange

Lone Star

1996as Delmore "Del" Payne

A Different World

1987as Byron Douglas III

NOVA

1974as Additional Narration

Home

2013as Donald Hall

Ali

2001as Chauncey Eskridge

City of Hope

1991as Winn

Tap

1989as Nicky