
Joe Morton
Acting • Born 1947-10-18
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.
Filmography
147 credits
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Movie • 1991
Miles Dyson

Lawman Without a Gun
Movie • 1979
Louis

Speed
Movie • 1994
Capt. McMahon

Stealth
Movie • 2005
Dick Marshfield

City of Hope
Movie • 1991
Winn

Dragonfly
Movie • 2002
Hugh Campbell

Executive Decision
Movie • 1996
Cappy

Forever Young
Movie • 1992
Cameron

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Movie • 2005
Additional Voices

The Astronaut's Wife
Movie • 1999
Sherman Reese

American Gangster
Movie • 2007
Charlie Williams

The Line
Movie • 2009
Hodges

Blues Brothers 2000
Movie • 1998
Cab Chamberlain

Badland
Movie • 2007
Max Astin

Ali
Movie • 2001
Chauncey Eskridge

Trouble in Mind
Movie • 1985
Solo

The Brother from Another Planet
Movie • 1984
The Brother

The Night Listener
Movie • 2006
Ashe

Paycheck
Movie • 2003
Agent Dodge

Back in the Day
Movie • 2005
Reverend Packer

Lone Star
Movie • 1996
Delmore "Del" Payne

Thoughtcrimes
Movie • 2003
Jon Harper

Crossroads
Movie • 1986
Scratch's Assistant

...And Justice for All
Movie • 1979
Prison Doctor

Africa: The Leopards of Zanzibar
Movie • 2001
Narrator

Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind
Movie • 2010
Self

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Movie • 1999
Self - Narrator

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

Stranded
Movie • 1987
Sheriff McMahon

The Walking Dead
Movie • 1995
Sgt. Barkley

The Inkwell
Movie • 1994
Kenny Tate

Death Penalty
Movie • 1980
William Terry

Miss Evers' Boys
Movie • 1997
Dr. Sam Brodus

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
Movie • 1996

Y2K
Movie • 1999
Martin Lowell

Home
Movie • 2013
Donald Hall

Alone in the Neon Jungle
Movie • 1988
Ken Fraker

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

A Good Sport
Movie • 1984
Lionel Zachary

Curse of the Pink Panther
Movie • 1983
Charlie

Of Mice and Men
Movie • 1992
Crooks

We're Fighting Back
Movie • 1981
Elgin Jones

The Lost Platoon
Movie • 1990
World War II soldier

Bounce
Movie • 2000
Jim Willer

Trinity's Triumph
Movie • 2023
Monsignor Heck

Speed 2: Cruise Control
Movie • 1997
Lt. Herb 'Mac' McMahon (uncredited)

Apt Pupil
Movie • 1998
Dan Richler

Ali: An American Hero
Movie • 2000
Malcom X

Cleveland Abduction
Movie • 2015
Agent Solano

Legacy of Lies
Movie • 1992
Samuel Flowers

Lenny The Wonder Dog
Movie • 2005
Dr. Island

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Movie • 2016
Silas

All the Way
Movie • 2016
Roy Wilkins

Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
Movie • 2016
Himself

What Lies Beneath
Movie • 2000
Dr. Drayton

Justice League
Movie • 2017
Silas Stone

The Clairvoyant
Movie • 1982
Detective Rich

Between the Lines
Movie • 1977
Ahmed

Challenger
Movie • 1990
Dr. Ronald McNair

Zelly & Me
Movie • 1988
Earl

Grand Central
Movie • 2008
Narrator

Lifelines
Movie • 2008
Dr. Livingston

Police Story: Burnout
Movie • 1988
Sgt. Jeff Allen

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Movie • 2019
Dr. Houston Brooks

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie • 2004
Other Voices (voice)

Tap
Movie • 1989
Nicky

In the Shadow of Evil
Movie • 1995
Lt. Royce

T2: Reprogramming The Terminator
Movie • 2017
Self

The Nuremberg Trials
Movie • 2006
Narrator (voice)

The Pest
Movie • 1997
Mr. Kent

War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
Movie
Narrator

A Million Eyes
Movie • 2019
Fern

Gone But Not Forgotten
Movie • 2005
Reggie Stewart

Jasper, Texas
Movie • 2003
Walter Diggles

Mr. Tornado
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)

Building the Alaska Highway
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Movie • 1994
Narrator

The Good Mother
Movie • 1988
Frank Williams

Between the World and Me
Movie • 2020
Self

The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's
Movie • 1993
Narrator

Making a Case for Murder
Movie • 1989
Cederic Sandiford

Zack Snyder's Justice League
Movie • 2021
Silas Stone

NOVA: Addiction
Movie

T2: More Than Meets the Eye
Movie • 1993
Self

Beyond Human
Movie • 2001
Narrator

Trouble on the Corner
Movie • 1997
Detective Bill

The Good Policeman
Movie • 1991
Sweets Montgomery

Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
Movie • 2025
Narrator

A Different World
TV • 1987
Byron Douglas III

Law & Order
TV • 1990
Defense Attorney Leon Chiles

M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Captain Saunders

Numb3rs
TV • 2005
Peter Lange

Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006
Peter Madsen

Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Jake Stone

What's Happening!!
TV • 1976

E-Ring
TV • 2005
Steven Algazi

CSI: NY
TV • 2004
Dwight Hillborne

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Ray Bevins

Sanford and Son
TV • 1972

New York Undercover
TV • 1994

The Practice
TV • 1997
U.S. Attorney

The X-Files
TV • 1993
Martin Wells

Mercy Point
TV • 1998
Dr. Grote Maxwell

The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Slate

Smallville
TV • 2001
Steven Hamilton

Grady
TV • 1975
Hal Marshall

Eureka
TV • 2006
Henry Deacon

Homicide: Life on the Street
TV • 1993
Sam Thorne

Boston Legal
TV • 2004
Attorney Steve Duprey

The Jury
TV • 2004

Under One Roof
TV • 1995
Ron Langston

New York News
TV • 1995
Mitch Cotter

TriBeCa
TV • 1993

Nature
TV • 1982
Narrator (voice)

Warehouse 13
TV • 2009
Reverend John Hill

Equal Justice
TV • 1990
Mike James

Prince Street
TV • 1997

Our Kind of People
TV • 2021
Teddy Franklin

Hemingway
TV • 2021
Ralph Ellison (voice)

Africa
TV • 2001
Narrator

NOVA
TV • 1974
Narrator

NOVA
TV • 1974
Additional Narration

White Collar
TV • 2009
Kyle Bancroft

Coma
TV • 2012
Nelson

Proof
TV • 2015
Dr. Charles Russell

Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Martin Hunter

Tamron Hall
TV • 2019
Self - Guest

Inside the Black Box
TV • 2022

The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Daniel Golden

Watch Your Mouth
TV • 1978
Mr. Raymond Geeter

American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)

The Great Depression
TV • 1993
Self - Narrator (voice)

Law & Order
TV • 1990
Roland Books

Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Clerk

Sherri
TV • 2022
Self - Guest

Scandal
TV • 2012
Eli 'Rowan' Pope

God Friended Me
TV • 2018
Arthur Finer

The U.S. and the Holocaust
TV • 2022
(voice)

House
TV • 2004
Gary Wright

The Politician
TV • 2019
Marcus Standish

Grace and Frankie
TV • 2015
Jason

Dellaventura
TV • 1997
Councilman Caulder

Miami Vice
TV • 1984
Lt. Jack Davis

Whoopi
TV • 2003
Martin James

The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Carter Brock

Going Dutch
TV • 2025
General Davidson

The American Revolution
TV • 2025
Elisha Bostwick / Elias Dayton (voice)