Joe Morton Filmography

Eureka: Season 03

Actors: Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, Jordan Hinson, Ed Quinn, Erica Cerra, Matt Frewer

Badland

Actors: Jamie Draven, Grace Fulton, Vinessa Shaw, Chandra West, Joe Morton

Synopsis: A veteran of the first Gulf War who later went on to serve in Afghanistan and Iraq discovers that returning to civilian life after the trauma he endured is but an empty dream in director Francesco Lucente's harrowing drama. Years ago, when he served in the first Gulf War, Jerry (Jamie Dreven) was Read More

American Gangster

Actors: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin

Synopsis: Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. There was a time when no one noticed reserved driver Frank Lucas (Washington), but when the Read More

Eureka: Season 02

Actors: Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, Jordan Hinson, Ed Quinn, Erica Cerra, Matt Frewer

The Night Listener

Actors: Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale, Joe Morton, Sandra Oh, Rory Culkin

Synopsis: A man whose life has been touched by tragic illness is drawn into the life of another victim whose story has an unsettling twist in this drama. Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams) is a radio talk show host who has developed a loyal following for his deeply personal on-air monologues, many of which deal Read More

American Experience: The Alaska Pipeline

American Experience: The Berlin Airlift

Synopsis: American Experience: The Berlin Airlift documents the time in 1948 that the Soviet Union blocked off all land access to Berlin, forcing humanitarian efforts to deliver food, medical supplies, and other necessities by plane for almost twelve months. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Eureka: Season 01

Actors: Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Debrah Farentino, Joe Morton, Jordan Hinson, Ed Quinn, Erica Cerra, Matt Frewer

Stealth

Actors: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton, Richard Roxburgh

Synopsis: The latest innovation in high-tech defense hardware turns out to have a very dangerous mind of its own in this action thriller. Kara Wade (Jessica Biel), Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx), and Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas) are three highly ranked U.S. Navy pilots who are part of a top-secret project involving Read More

Freedom Summer (June 21, 1964)

American Experience: Building the Alaska Highway

Synopsis: This documentary chronicles the 1942 building of the Alaskan Highway. It illustrates the effect that the Pearl Harbor bombing had on the decision to begin construction and examines the hardships that the American soldiers tasked with this job were forced to endure, from fierce cold to forced Read More

American Experience: Race to the Moon

Synopsis: Filmmakers explore the historical 1968 lunar mission that laid the groundwork for man's first steps on the moon in this hour-long documentary that originally aired as part of PBS Television's American Experience series. On December 24, 1968, the space race came to a head as Apollo 8 entered lunar Read More

House: Role Model

Synopsis: Faced with the choice of firing one of his team or losing his own job, House (Hugh Laurie) is given a way out by Vogler (Chi McBride). If he will give a speech on behalf of a new drug developed by Vogler's pharamaceutical firm, House will be completely off the hook. The upshot of all this only Read More

American Experience: Minik, The Lost Eskimo

Synopsis: Though innumerable American history books have praised the doings of polar explorer Robert Peary over the years, few relayed a heartbreaking and seldom-publicized story tied directly to Peary's accomplishments. In the spring of 1897, Peary arrived in New York City, with a ship full of Read More

With All Deliberate Speed

Synopsis: Directed by Hoop Dreams producer Peter Gilbert, With All Deliberate Speed is a reflection on the state of civil rights in America 50 years after the May 17, 1954, unanimous Supreme Court ruling stating that the doctrine of "separate but equal" was inconsistent with the constitution of the United Read More

Back in the Day

Actors: Ja Rule, Ving Rhames, Tatyana Ali, Pam Grier

Synopsis: A young man is torn by divided loyalty in this hard-edged urban drama. Reggie (Ja Rule) was raised by his father (Giancarlo Esposito) after a violent incident in the neighborhood where he lived with his mother (Pam Grier). While Reggie has been encouraged to take up a life of crime by his older Read More

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Synopsis: Experience legendary boxer Jack Johnson's remarkable struggle both in and out of the ring in documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' two-part look at the career of one of the sports world's most remarkable athletes. From his childhood in Galveston, TX, as the son of former slaves to his triumph as the Read More

Sunday on the Rocks

Crew: Director

Actors: Julie White, Cady Huffman, Amiee Turner, Suzzanne Douglass

Breaking Dawn

Actors: Kelly Overton, James Haven, Sarah Jane Potts, Hank Harris

Synopsis: The insane ramblings of a madman become all too real for a young medical student assigned to investigate the murder of a mental patient's mother in director Mark Edwin Robinson's twisted tale of psychological horror. Don Wake is a troubled soul whose secrets run deep. As the medical student Read More

Lenny the Wonder Dog

Actors: Sammy Kahn, Craig Ferguson, Michael Winslow, Andrew Shaifer, Evan Adams

Synopsis: A chip designed to instantly train any dog falls into the hands of an evil scientist looking to enslave the children of the world and achieve ultimate power in directors Oren Goldman and Yariv Ozdoba's family-oriented comedy-adventure. Newyville misfit Zach Dylan hasn't had a very good day. In Read More

Mitchellville

Crew: Executive Producer

Paycheck

Actors: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Colm Feore

Synopsis: John Woo directs the sci-fi action thriller Paycheck, based on a story written by Philip K. Dick in 1953. Waking up with his short-term memory erased, engineer Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) learns that he has been doing highly secretive work for the last three years in exchange for billions of Read More

Jasper, Texas

Actors: Jon Voight, Louis Gossett, Jr., Joe Morton, Emily Yancy, Bokeem Woodbine

Synopsis: The time: June 1998. The place: The sleepy town of Jasper, TX. Three young, self-styled white supremists overpower a 49-year-old black man named James Byrd Jr., chain him to the back of their pickup, and literally drag him to death. What follows is a media firestorm, exacerbated by scores of Read More

Thoughtcrimes

Synopsis: On the night of her prom in 1994, teenager Freya McAllister (Navi Rawat) suddenly begins hearing strange voices. As a result, Freya is diagnosed as schizophrenic and squirreled away in a mental hospital, where she remains for the next eight years. Along comes psychologist Michal Welles (Peter Read More

Dragonfly

Actors: Linda Hunt, Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, Kevin Costner plays Joe Darrow, a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily (Susannah Thompson) in a bus accident in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe works extra shifts at the hospital to take his mind off the Read More

Smallville: Nicodemus

Synopsis: A plant created with the DNA of the long-extinct Nicodemus flower is stolen. While attempting to rescue an apparently unhinged man from harming himself, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) comes in contact with the pilfered plant. Under the influence of the Nicodemus flower -- which had been Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Impossible Dream

Synopsis: Musical legend Luther Vandross guest stars as Reggie Hunter, a downtrodden janitor who'd been forced twenty years earlier to give up his dreams of becoming a singer. Only recently has Reggie discovered that he could have had a life-altering audition with Motown records, but that the audition was Read More

Smallville: Duplicity

Synopsis: While rescuing the victim of a hit-and-run accident, Pete Ross (Sam Jones III) stumbles upon the spaceship that brought his friend Clark Kent (Tom Welling) from the planet Krypton. Rather than continue deceiving Pete, Clark reveals his true identity, thereby putting a strain on their friendship. Read More

Smallville: Obscura

Synopsis: Hoping to enhance his reputation, an unbalanced lawman kidnaps Chloe (Allison Mack) for the express purpose of staging a spectacular rescue. Poor Chloe is bound, gagged, blindfolded, and buried alive in a tiny vault stuffed with toy teddy bears. Outside of the rogue lawman, the only person who has Read More

Ali

Actors: Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver

Synopsis: Notoriously obsessive director Michael Mann and star Will Smith devoted nearly two years and over 100 million dollars from the coffers of Columbia Pictures and other financiers to creating this biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time Read More

Smallville: Craving

Synopsis: High school honor student Jodi Melville (Amy Adams) is convinced that her classmates dislike her because she is overweight. In her efforts to reduce, Jodi vows to subsist on a diet consisting only of the vegetables growing in her parents' greenhouse. Alas, those vegetables have been infected with Read More

NOVA: Neanderthals on Trial

Synopsis: This program is part of a series from the popular PBS science show NOVA. This episode investigates those early humans we have come to call our ancestors: the Neanderthals. But new discoveries and research findings have raised questions about whether or not this biped species may not belong to Read More

Bounce

Actors: David Paymer, Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joe Morton, Natasha Henstridge, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy-drama, two people whose lives were touched by the same tragedy find love. Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) is a successful L.A. advertising executive who has a way with the ladies, but inside he longs for a meaningful long-term relationship. One day Buddy sells his seat on a Read More

What Lies Beneath

Actors: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid, Miranda Otto, James Remar, Joe Morton

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, a woman believes that a visitor from another dimension is trying to guide her into a sinister mystery. Feeling lonely after her daughter leaves home for college, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) begins to sense that something is wrong in her house, and feels a spirit is Read More

Ali: An American Hero

Actors: David Ramsey, Clarence Williams III, Joe Morton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Martin Ferrero

Synopsis: Shown on the Fox network, this made-for-TV biopic stars David Ramsey as legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, whose story is told largely in flashbacks. Beginning with Ali's childhood, when he was known as Cassius Clay, Ali: An American Hero traces the boxer's career, love life, and eventual devotion to Read More

John Brown's Holy War

Actors: Joe Morton

Synopsis: This 90-minute PBS documentary chronicles the turbulent life and times of Connecticut-born, Calvinist-raised abolitionist John Brown. His fervent hatred of slavery led Brown down the road of fanaticism after passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed settlers of the Western Read More

Law & Order: Vaya Con Dios

Synopsis: Steven Hill, the sole remaining cast member from Law & Order's first season, appeared as D.A. Adam Schiff for the final time in this episode. In a case reminiscent of the theatrical feature Missing, a father obsessively seeks out the persons responsible for the torture and death of his son in Read More

Law & Order: Burn Baby Burn

Synopsis: Actor-director Clarence Williams III guest stars as Lateef Miller, a former member of the militant Black Panther party. A prominent 1960s activist, Miller again makes headlines when he is accused of murdering a white police detective. Media coverage of the subsequent trial serves as a forum for Read More

The Astronaut's Wife

Actors: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Clea Duvall, Donna Murphy

Synopsis: Science fiction blends with domestic horror in this thriller. Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) is an astronaut on a routine mission in space when something goes horribly wrong and it looks as if he's doomed. However, Spencer is rescued at the last moment and returns to earth a hero. He soon Read More

Y2K

Actors: Ken Olin, Kate Vernon, Joe Morton, Jane McGregor, Michal Suchanek

Synopsis: "What if they're right?" screamed the ad copy for the TV movie Y2K, referring to the millions of otherwise rational, level-headed people who lived in mortal terror that virtually every computer in the world would malfunction on December 31, 1999, because of an imbedded inability to "read" Read More

American Experience: Lost in the Grand Canyon

Synopsis: John Wesley Powell was a Civil War veteran dedicated to surveying one of the last uncharted territories in the United States: the Grand Canyon. His expedition established the Grand Canyon as a national landmark and -- not without scrutiny -- changed the country's attitude toward the West. American Read More

Mutiny

Actors: Michael Jai White, David Ramsey, Duane Martin, Adrian Pasdar, Matthew Glave

Synopsis: This made-for-television docudrama that aired on March 28, 1999 on NBC, relates the story of an actual event that occurred during World War II, but is centered around the lives of fictional characters. On July 17, 1944 at a U.S. naval base near San Francisco, a ship exploded causing the deaths of Read More

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

Actors: Joe Morton

Synopsis: The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords is a documentary about the largely-forgotten history of African-American newspapers. In 1827, a group of black writers and journalists in New York who were tired of the way racial issues were depicted in the press created America's first black-owned and Read More

Apt Pupil

Actors: Kevin Pollak, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Elias Koteas, Joe Morton, David Schwimmer

Synopsis: Bryan Singer directed this Brandon Boyce adaptation of Stephen King's novella about teenager Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), who discovers Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) living in his California hometown. Fascinated with Dussender's wartime atrocities, Bowden blackmails the former Read More

Blues Brothers 2000

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, Evan Bonifant, Nia Peeples

Synopsis: Dan Aykroyd and John Landis teamed to script this sequel to The Blues Brothers (1980), which they also co-scripted. With Landis once again at the helm as director, Aykroyd re-creates his role of rhythm-and-blues man Elwood Blues, and the film's numerous R&B performances and production numbers Read More

Mercy Point

Actors: Joe Morton, Maria Del Mar, Alexandra Wilson, Brian McNamara, Julia Pennington

Synopsis: This TV science fiction series is set in the 23rd century aboard an intergalactic medical facility dedicated to the new science of alien physiology. The space-bound doctors, who care for both aliens and humans, include android ANI, aka Android Nursing Interface (Julia Pennington), alien Read More

Trouble on the Corner

Actors: Tony Goldwyn, Edie Falco, Debi Mazar, Joe Morton, Tammy Grimes

Synopsis: Alan Madison made his directorial debut with this shrink-wrapped souffle of comedic conflicts in the life of lame NYC psychologist Jeff Stewart (Tony Goldwyn), who is burdened with an unloving wife (Edie Falco) and regarded with contempt by his own patients. In addition to criminals sent to him by Read More

Miss Evers' Boys

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Ossie Davis, Joe Morton

Synopsis: Produced for the HBO cable network, this docudrama explores the social and ethical issues at the heart of the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis. From 1932 through 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service studied 600 poor African-American sharecroppers in Macon County, AL -- 399 Read More

Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Charles S. Dutton, Susan Ruttan, Joe Morton, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: In this fifth TV movie based on the character of incorruptible Chicago detective Jack Reed, Brian Dennehy once again wears two hats as both star and director. A multiple murder has occurred in a suburban cemetery in broad daylight. Most of the victims are Russian immigrants, whose friends and Read More

Lone Star

Actors: Miriam Colon, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Joe Morton, Ron Canada, Clifton James, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Reminiscent of a fine novel in depth and complexity, writer-director John Sayles' acclaimed drama uses the investigation of a 25-year-old murder as the framework for a detailed exploration of life in a Texas border town. The nominal center of the film is Sheriff Sam Deeds (the superb, subtle Chris Cooper Read More

Touched By an Angel: Jacob's Ladder

Synopsis: Having shown up at the wrong house for her latest assignment, Monica (Roma Downey) innocently finds herself under arrest for drug possession--and when she insists that she is an angel, she ends up in a mental hospital. Monica's court-appointed lawyer Jake Stone (Joe Morton) is a cynical, athestic Read More

The Pest

Actors: John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Edoardo Ballerini, Freddy Rodriguez, Tammy Townsend

Synopsis: A man discovers the lighter side of being hunted down like an animal in this manic comedy. Pestario "Pest" Vargas (John Leguizamo) is a low-rent con man from Miami's South Beach who has fallen deeply in debt to ill-tempered members of the Scottish mafia (complete with kilts). Desperate to raise Read More

Executive Decision

Actors: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His Read More

The Walking Dead

Actors: Allen Payne, Eddie Griffin, Joe Morton, Vonte Sweet, Roger Floyd

Synopsis: Using relatively unknown actors, first-time screenwriter-director Preston A. Whitmore II examines the effects of the Vietnam War on four black Marines sent on a doomed prisoner-of-war rescue mission. The four men are what's left of a platoon that's been decimated after landing behind enemy lines. Read More

In the Shadow of Evil

Synopsis: Hot on the trail of a serial killer known only as "The Roper", police detective Jack Brennan (Treat Williams) is seriously injured in an accident. When he awakens, Brennan can't remember what he has been doing, nor any of the clues he has been following up. As Brennan is nursed back to health by Read More

Speed

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: If you don't think Speed is the fastest-moving adventure film ever made, we challenge you to find a faster one. Keanu Reeves stars as an LA Bomb Squad specialist whose principal antagonist is elusive bomber-extortionist Dennis Hopper. Seeking vengeance after his latest ransom scheme is thwarted Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street - Happy to Be Here

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Giardello's (Yaphet Kotto) activist friend Sam Thorne (Joe Morton) is shot down after blowing the whistle on a high-scale cocaine operation. The squad searches for the husband of a woman who is still receiving fresh flowers every day, even though she's been dead for two weeks. Munch's (Richard Belzer Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street - A Model Citizen

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: The serial killer responsible for the recent spate of "white glove" murders sues Pembleton (Andre Braugher) for violating her civil rights -- but that's only the beginning of his troubles. Elsewhere, Munch (Richard Belzer) is forced to attend an alcohol awareness seminar; Felton's (Daniel Baldwin) Read More

The Inkwell

Actors: Larenz Tate, Joe Morton, Suzzanne Douglas, Glynn E. Turman, Duane Martin, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vanessa Bell Calloway

Synopsis: Charming comedy about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Actors: Joe Morton

Synopsis: Part social engineering, part artistic happening, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s brought the accomplishments of African-Americans to the forefront of popular culture. Against All Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance remembers the glory days of the New York neighborhood. Read More

Forever Young

Actors: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser, George Wendt

Synopsis: A man undergoes a scientific experiment that causes him to wake up after 50 years without aging a day in this romantic science-fiction tale. In 1939, Daniel (Mel Gibson) is a test pilot who is brave in the air but lacks the nerve to ask his girlfriend Helen (Isabel Glasser) to marry him, even Read More

Of Mice and Men

Actors: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis: Gary Sinese directed this respectful re-telling of John Steinbeck's classic novel, with Sinese as the wily George and John Malkovich as the brutish, simple-minded Lennie. Set during the Depression era, the film opens as George and Lennie are running from a woman with a torn dress, who has sent a Read More

A Different World: Do the Write Thing

Synopsis: To improve her grades so that she can keep her engineering scholarship, Lena (Jada Pinkett) writes a florid "biographical" essay, heavily fictionalizing the accomplishments of her father Grover James (Ron Canada). Certain that no one will ever learn the real story, Lena is terror-stricken when Read More

A Different World: Conflict of Interest

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) adamantly tries to convince everyone (especially herself) that she has fallen out of love with Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison), and IN love with handsome political candidate Byron Douglas (Joe Morton). Elsewhere, Ron (Darryl M. Bell) promises Read More

A Different World: Saving the Best for Last, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of A Different World's two-part Season Five finale, Whitley (Jasmine Guy)is just about to wed Byron Douglas III (Joe Morton) when she realizes that she is still in love with Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison). Whitley's social-climbing mom Marion (Diahann Carroll) works overtime to Read More