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Joe Morton is an American actor who works in stage, television, and film. Born in 1947 in The Bronx, New York, he is educated at Hofstra University. His professional career began in 1970. He speaks and writes in English.
Morton has received the Theatre World Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. He was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1935
- Works
- 5
Top works
- At Canaans Edge America In The King Years 196568
- An empty place at the table, an empty place in the heart
- Exodus
- Invisible Man
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Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
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
- Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP — Narrator2025
- Going Dutch — General Davidson2025
- The American Revolution — Elisha Bostwick / Elias Dayton (voice)2025
- Trinity's Triumph — Monsignor Heck2023
- Inside the Black Box2022
- Sherri — Self - Guest2022
- The U.S. and the Holocaust — Self (voice)2022
- Zack Snyder's Justice League — Silas Stone2021
- Our Kind of People — Teddy Franklin2021
- Hemingway — Ralph Ellison (voice)2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,441
- Total plays
- 9,871
Joseph Thomas Morton Jr. (born October 18, 1947) is an American stage, television and film actor. He has worked with film director John Sayles in The Brother from Another Planet (1984), City of Hope (1991) and Lone Star (1996). Other films he has appeared in include Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Of Mice and Men (1992), Speed (1994), Apt Pupil (1998), Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) as Cabel "Cab" Chamberlain, based upon the late Cab Calloway, What Lies Beneath (2000) <a href="https://www.last.fm
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- PLS-SEM: Indeed a Silver Bullet
· 2011 · cited 16,239x
- Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function
· 1963 · cited 14,274x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,206x
- Superoxide Dismutase
· 1969 · cited 10,051x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Morton
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Joe Morton.jpg
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- Commons category
- Joe Morton
- date of birth
- 1947-10-18
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
- social media followers
- 117526
- writing language
- English language
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