Name
Fred Thompson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1942-08-19
Deathday
2015-11-01 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.
Biography
Freddie Dalton 'Fred' Thompson (August 19, 1942 - November 1, 2015), credited as Fred Thompson and Fred Dalton Thompson, is an American politician, actor, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, and radio host. He served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1994 through 2003. He served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State, was a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence.
As an actor, he has appeared in a large number of movies and television shows. He has frequently portrayed governmental figures. In the final months of his U.S. Senate term in 2002, he joined the cast of the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, playing Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch. In May 2007, he took a break from acting in order to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. In 2009, he returned to acting with a guest appearance on television series; and co-starred with Brian Dennehy in the movie Alleged, about the Scopes Monkey Trial.
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- 1992 Iron Eagle III as Stockmann
- 1990 Days of Thunder as Big John
- 1990 Die Hard 2 as Trudeau
- 1991 Cape Fear as Tom Broadbent
- 1990 The Hunt for Red October as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
- 1987 No Way Out as CIA Director Marshall
- 2006 Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World as Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
- 1988 Feds! as Bill Belecki
- 1993 In the Line of Fire as Harry Sargent
- 2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as President Ulysses S. Grant
- 2010 Secretariat as Bull Hancock
- 2012 Sinister as Sheriff
- 2010 Alleged as William Jennings Bryan
- 2012 The Last Ride as O'Keefe
- 2013 All the President's Men Revisited as Self
- 2013 Unlimited as Harold Finch
- 2014 Persecuted as Dr. Charles Luther
- 2005 Last Best Chance as President Charles Ross
- 2014 A Larger Life as Robert Parker
- 2004 Evel Knievel as Jay Sarno
- 1991 Curly Sue as Bernard Oxbar
- 2015 90 Minutes in Heaven as Jay B. Perkins
- 2005 Racing Stripes as Sir Trenton (voice)
- 1991 Class Action as Dr. Getchell
- 1992 Thunderheart as William Dawes
- 1985 Marie: A True Story as Fred Thompson
- 2014 23 Blast as Coach Powers
- 1988 Unholy Matrimony as Frank Sweeny
- 1994 Baby's Day Out as FBI Agent Grissom
- 1993 Barbarians at the Gate as Jim Robinson
- 2010 The Genesis Code as Judge Hardin
- 1992 Stay the Night as Det.Malone
- 1992 Bed of Lies as Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
- 1989 Fat Man and Little Boy as Melrose Hayden Barry
- 2009 Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson as Self
- 1993 Born Yesterday as Senator Hedges
- 1992 White Sands as Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
- 2016 God's Not Dead 2 as Senior Pastor
- 1991 Necessary Roughness as Carver Purcell
- 1992 Keep the Change as Otis
- 1991 Flight of the Intruder as Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
- 1983 Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings as Himself
- 1990 Law & Order ( 116 episodes ) as Arthur Branch
- 1986 Matlock ( 3 episodes ) as Gordon Lewis
- 1988 China Beach ( 1 episode )
- 2006 Conviction ( 1 episode ) as Arthur Branch
- 1988 Roseanne ( 1 episode )
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 11 episodes ) as Arthur Branch
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2005 Law & Order: Trial by Jury ( 13 episodes ) as Arthur Branch
- 2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Arthur Branch
- 1987 Wiseguy ( 3 episodes )
- 2015 Allegiance ( 3 episodes ) as FBI Director
- 2008 Life on Mars ( 1 episode ) as Chief Harry Woolf
- 2009 The Good Wife ( 2 episodes ) as Frank Michael Thomas
- Soon Glenn Beck ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 Fox News Sunday ( 1 episode ) as Self
