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

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

Appearances as themselves (12)

• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The U.S. and the Holocaust — Self (voice)
• 2020Between the World and Me — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi — Self
• Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• 2017T2: Reprogramming The Terminator — Self
• 2016Brett Gelman's Dinner in America — Himself
• 2010Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind — Self
• 1999The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords — Self - Narrator
• 1993T2: More Than Meets the Eye — Self
• The Great Depression — Self - Narrator (voice)