FrameThrower · Actors · Joe Morton
Joe Morton
8 films · 565 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1984–2020
Born 18 October 1947 · 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 565 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1984–2020
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series2014
- Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play2017
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award1984
- Theatre World Award1974
How their films are shot
Measured across 565 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Joe takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 46% low key — the look of the work Joe takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 565 frames from Joe Morton's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.