Joe Morton - Celebrity - Milestones
Milestones
- 2003: Cast in the film by director John Woo "Paycheck"
- 2002: Portrayed Dr. Zeke McMillan on "All My Children"
- 2001: Rejoined the London production of "Art", featured with Judd Hirsch and Richard Thomas
- 2001: Appeared in the Off-Broadway play "Brutal Imagination"
- 2001: Cast as the Duke in the New York Shakespeare Festival Central Park staging of "Measure for Measure"
- 1999: Had supporting role in "The Astronaut's Wife"
- 1998: Starred in the short-lived UPN sci-fi medical series "Mercy Point"
- 1998: Acted in the Broadway play "Art"; also performed in the London production alongside Judd Hirsch
- 1997: Co-starred in short-lived NBC drama "Prince Street"
- 1997: Appeared in the award-winning HBO movie "Miss Evers Boys" as one of the doctors treating black men with syphillis
- 1995: Cast as a regular in CBS drama series "New York News"
- 1994: Appeared in ensemble drama "Under One Roof" (CBS)
- 1994: Narrated PBS documentary series, "Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance"
- 1993: Appeared as Carleton, one of two recurring characters on the Fox-TV anthology drama, "Tribeca"
- 1993: TV directorial debut with "The Loft" episode of "Tribeca"
- 1993: Narrated the well-received PBS documentary series, "The Great Depression"
- 1991: Starred in Sayles' "City of Hope"
- 1984: Played first lead in a major feature, as the title character in John Sayles' "The Brother From Another Planet"; first collaboration with writer-director Sayles
- 1977: Played first notable role in a feature, as Ahmed in Joan Micklin Silver's "Between the Lines", a character study of the counterculture
- From 1975 to 1976: Appeared as Hal Marshall, a regular character on the NBC sitcom "Grady", a short-lived NBC spinoff of "Sanford and Son"
- 1973: Starred as Walter Lee Younger in "Raisin", the Broadway musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's drama "A Raisin in the Sun"
- 1972: Starred in the musical version of "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
- 1968: Broadway debut at age 20 in the trendsetting musical, "Hair"
- 1958: Moved with family to Dachau, Germany (date approximate)
- Appeared as a recurring character on "A Different World"
- Decided to become an actor on his first day at Hofstra University
- Moved with mother and family to New York
- Remained in Germany until father's death
- First professional acting job in off-Broadway production of "A Month of Sundays", a modern version of the Noah story
- Had regular role of Dr. Abel Marsh in the TV soap "Another World"
- Cast as a regular in the TV soap "Search for Tomorrow"
- Appeared as a major member of the ensemble cast of "Equal Justice", an ABC-TV legal series
- Raised in Okinawa, Japan and Europe