Name	Joe Morton
Height	5' 9"
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	18 October 1947
Place of Birth	New York, USA
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Deciding to become an actor on his first day at Hofstra University, Joe Morton began his career on stage and made his Broadway debut in the trend-setting musical “Hair” when he was 21. He starred in the musical version of “Two Gentlemen of Verona” three years later in 1972, but it was his subsequent starring turn, as Walter Lee Younger, in “Raisin,” the 1973 Broadway musical revival of Lorraine Hansberry's drama “A Raisin in the Sun,” that won the actor notice. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his work in the play.

Morton went on to make his TV debut as a regular in the daytime soap “Search for Tomorrow,” playing Dr. James Foster from 1973 to 1974, and then had a regular role as Hal Marshall in the NBC sitcom “Grady,” a 1975-76 spin-off of “Sanford and Son.” He also starred as Mr. Jeter in the short-lived comedy “Watch Your Month” (1978). Morton had his first taste in front of the film camera as Ahmed in director Joan Micklin Silver's Between the Lines (1977), starring John Heard and Lindsay Crouse, and made his second venture with a smaller role in Al Pacino's ...And Justice for All (1979). The same year, he also made his TV movie bow in Lawman Without a Gun.

After a series of TV work, including a 1983-84 turn as Dr. Abel Marsh in the soap “Another World,” and a couple of film appearances, such as in Blake Edwards' Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Morton scored his motion picture breakthrough role as the mute alien in writer/director John Sayles' The Brother From Another Planet (1984). Delivering a virtuoso performance, he was handed a Caixa de Catalunya honor for Best Actor from the 1984 Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival. The success led to a number of film works throughout the decade, and then in 1991 he rejoined Sayles for the award-winning drama City of Hope, where he was excellent as an idealistic politician named Wynn. It was also in 1991 that Morton was introduced to mainstream audience with his pivotal supporting role in the box office hit Terminator 2: Judgement Day, playing Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson, the scientist who is influenced by Arnold Schwarzenegger and friends to demolish the cyborg components he has been researching. He continued to play supporting roles in the movies Of Mice and Men (1992), Mel Gibson's Forever Young (1992) and Speed (1994). He starred with Larenz in Tate in Matty Rich's The Inkwell (also 1994).

Morton maintained a busy performer on the small screen, though enjoyed little success. He acted in the docudrama Challenger (1990, as astronaut Dr. Ronald McNair) and the ensemble dramatic series “Equal Justice” (1990-91, as lawyer Michael James), and proved credible as a debonair senator candidate who became romantically involved with Jasmine Guy in seven episodes of “A Different World” (1992), a spin-off of of “The Cosby Show.” Morton also played the recurring role of a cop in Robert De Niro's first (and fugitive) TV project, “Tribeca” (1993), in which he also directed the episode “The Loft,” narrated the successful PBS documentary series “The Great Depression” (1993) and PBS documentary series “Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance” (1994), as well as had regular roles in the ensemble drama “Under One Roof” (CBS, 1995) and the CBS short-lived drama “New York News” (also 1995), as the managing editor of a tabloid newspaper.

The reminder of the 1990s saw Morton continue to alternate between TV and film. He was cast as one of the doctors treating black men with syphilis in the HBO movie Miss Evers Boys (1997), which was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, starred as Lt. Tom Warner on short-lived NBC police drama “Prince Street (1997) and Dr. Grote Maxwell on the UPN sci-fi medical series “Mercy Point” (1998-1999). His film credits include Lone Star (1996), Trouble on the Corner (1997), Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Apt Pupil (1998) and The Astronaut's Wife (1999, starred Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron).

The actor made a strong return to the stage by playing a role opposite Judd Hirsch and George Wendt in the award-winning Broadway play “Art” (1998), a part he later reprised in the 2001 London production of the same name. He then appeared in the Off-Broadway play “Brutal Imagination” (2001) and was cast as the Duke in the New York Shakespeare Festival Central Park staging of “Measure for Measure” (also 2001). Morton offered a memorable appearance as Dr. Hamilton in the first and second seasons of “Smallville” (2001-02), which he followed with a regular role as Dr. Zeke McMillan in the daytime serial “All My Children” (2002) as well as a string of TV episodic roles such as in “Law & Order,” “JAG,” “CSI: NY.” He also played the recurring role of Steven Algazi in “E-Ring” (2005), starring Benjamin Bratt and Dennis Hopper. Meanwhile, on the big screen, he could be seen in projects like John Woo's Paycheck (2003), the big budget Stealth (2005, with Jamie Foxx) and the based-on-book The Night Listener (2006), directed by Patrick Stettner.

Currently, Morton plays scientist Henry Deacon on the Sci-Fi Channel series “Eureka” (2006-present), opposite Colin Ferguson as Sheriff Jack Carter, Salli Richardson as Allison Blake and Jordan Hinson as Zoe Carter. The series received a Saturn nomination for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series in 2007. The respected actor has a supporting role in the forthcoming feature Badland (2007), scripted and helmed by Francesco Lucente.