Joe Morton

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Oct 18, 1947 (77 years old)

Joe Morton

Known For

Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
1h 53m
Movie 2025

Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Walter White looked white; he described himself as “an enigma, a Black man occupying a white body.” Like virtually all light-skinned African Americans of his day, White was descended from enslaved Black women and powerful white men. But he was Black — by law, identity, and conviction and spent his entire life fighting for Black civil rights. Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history.

Trinity's Triumph
1h 26m
Movie 2023

Trinity's Triumph

Three young men enter the seminary and consider becoming priests, guided by the wise and lovable mentor, Monsignor Heck. They must be true to their calling as they make their decision.

The U.S. and the Holocaust
2h 12m
TV Show 2022

The U.S. and the Holocaust

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

Inside the Black Box
1h 0m
TV Show 2022

Inside the Black Box

A new spin on celebrity interview shows, INSIDE THE BLACK BOX spotlights the world’s greatest artists of color, from actors to producers to directors, writers and musicians, and reflects on how one’s complexion affected their journey to success. Led by Emmy Award-winning actor Joe Morton and casting director/celebrity acting coach Tracey Moore and filled with an audience of young artists clamoring to learn as much as they can from our hosts and A-List guests. Each episode is filled with life lessons, history, exciting performance exercises, and honest discussions about the role race plays in the entertainment industry.

Our Kind of People
TV Show 2021

Our Kind of People

A strong-willed single mom sets out to reclaim her family's name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line but discovers a dark secret about her own mother's past that will turn her world upside-down.

Zack Snyder's Justice League
4h 2m
Movie 2021

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

Between the World and Me
1h 25m
Movie 2020

Between the World and Me

Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
1h 23m
Movie 2020

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and sci-fi gems such as "Blade Runner," and "A Clockwork Orange."

Mr. Tornado
0h 54m
Movie 2020

Mr. Tornado

Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying The Super Outbreak of 1974, which was the most intense tornado outbreak on record. Mr. Tornado is the remarkable story of the man whose groundbreaking work in research and applied science saved thousands of lives and helped Americans prepare for and respond to dangerous weather phenomena.

A Million Eyes
0h 24m
Movie 2019

A Million Eyes

A gifted young photographer, grappling with his mother's alcoholism, sets out to capture something he loves with the help of a mentor.

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.

Acting

2025
Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP
2023
Trinity's Triumph
2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
Inside the Black Box
2021
Our Kind of People
2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2020
Between the World and Me
2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020
Mr. Tornado
2019
A Million Eyes
2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2018
God Friended Me
2017
T2: Reprogramming The Terminator
2017
Justice League
2016
All the Way
2015
Proof
2015
Cleveland Abduction
2012
Coma
2012
Scandal
2010
Halves of a Dream: Making Trouble in Mind
2009
The Line
2008
Grand Central
2008
Lifelines
2007
American Gangster
2006
Eureka
2005
E-Ring
2005
Lenny The Wonder Dog
2005
Stealth
2005
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
2005
Back in the Day
2005
Building the Alaska Highway
2005
Gone But Not Forgotten
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2003
Thoughtcrimes
2001
Africa
2000
Ali: An American Hero
2000
What Lies Beneath
1999
The Astronaut's Wife
1999
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
1998
Apt Pupil
1998
Mercy Point
1998
Blues Brothers 2000
1997
Trouble on the Corner
1997
Prince Street
1996
Lone Star
1995
New York News
1995
Under One Roof
1995
In the Shadow of Evil
1995
American Cinema
1994
Speed
1994
The Inkwell
1994
Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
1993
The Great Depression
1993
TriBeCa
1993
T2: More Than Meets the Eye
1993
The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's
1992
Of Mice and Men
1992
Legacy of Lies
1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991
The Good Policeman
1990
Equal Justice
1989
Making a Case for Murder
1989
Tap
1988
Police Story: Burnout
1988
The Good Mother
1988
Zelly & Me
1985
Trouble in Mind

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