Q: Let me quickly ask about Hofstra, where you went and did not graduate. He’s starred in dozens of TV series over the decades, beginning with the soap “Search for Tomorrow” in the early ’70s, then “M*A*S*H.” Oh, and the movies? There’s been a few of those too, most recently 2017’s “Justice League.” version, would play the lead on Broadway, too. Morton, who’s already starred in the L.A. (“Turn me loose” were the last words spoken by civil rights leader Medgar Evers before he was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963). He’s also leading an effort to bring the John Legend-produced play “Turn Me Loose” - about comedian/activist Dick Gregory - to Broadway. Morton recently wrapped a stage run with Tom Hanks and Hamish Linklater in a Los Angeles production of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” with Morton as Hal and Hanks as Falstaff (if you can picture that). Legendary actor Joe Morton is starring in CBS’ “God Friended Me,” although you may best recall him as Rowan Pope, the treacherous paterfamilias of “Scandal.” Both roles are just tips of a remarkable iceberg.
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