Joe Morton at ComicCon 2009, courtesy Wikipedia Commons
Joe Morton is an American character actor who played Senator Gary H. Wright, the patient in the Season 1 episode Role Model.
Morton started in television with a bit part on Mission:Impossible in 1970. However, he has been in a number of notable roles since:
- His first regular role was on the short lived Sanford & Son spin-off Grady.
- He played the title character in the well regarded independent film Brother from Another Planet.
- He played Miles Dyson, the computer scientist who was unwittingly creating the computer which would take over the world in Terminator 2.
- He portrayed Mike James in Equal Justice.
- He portrayed Keanu Reeves' commanding officer Captain McMahon in Speed.
- He had a recurring role as Dr. Steven Hamilton in Smallville.
- Like Peter Jacobson, he had a recurring role as an attorney on Law & Order.
He currently appears as Henry Deacon on the series Eureka.