For the director, see Morgan J. Freeman

In 1980, he had a small role as Walter in the drama Brubaker, which starred Robert Redford as a prison warden.[25] Freeman next appeared in the television film, Attica (1980), which is about the 1971 Attica Prison riot and its aftermath.[26] A year later he had a lead role in Peter Yates’ Eyewitness with co-stars William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver.[27] From 1982 to 1984, Freeman was a cast member of the soap opera Another World, playing architect Roy Bingham.[28] After several small roles in dramas, he starred in Marie (1985), a film adaptation of Marie: A True Story by Peter Maas; he portrayed Charles Traughber.[29] He also appeared in the miniseries The Atlanta Child Murders.[30] Freeman also had a small role in the drama That Was Then… This Is Now, based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton.[31] In the mid-1980s, he began accepting prominent supporting roles in feature films, earning him a reputation for depicting wise, fatherly characters.[10]