Fred Thompson
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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Known for
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Arthur Branch
Law & Order
Arthur Branch
The Good Wife
Frank Michael Thomas
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Arthur Branch
Matlock
Gordon Lewis
Wiseguy
Sinister
Sheriff
Die Hard 2
Trudeau
China Beach
The Hunt for Red October
Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
Life on Mars
Chief Harry Woolf
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Arthur Branch
Secretariat
Bull Hancock
Roseanne
Baby's Day Out
FBI Agent Grissom
Racing Stripes
Sir Trenton (voice)
Allegiance
FBI Director
Cape Fear
Tom Broadbent
Thunderheart
William Dawes
Days of Thunder
Big John
No Way Out
CIA Director Marshall
In the Line of Fire
Harry Sargent
Conviction
Arthur Branch
Unholy Matrimony
Frank Sweeny
God's Not Dead 2
Senior Pastor
23 Blast
Coach Powers
Necessary Roughness
Carver Purcell
Curly Sue
Bernard Oxbar
Flight of the Intruder
Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
President Ulysses S. Grant
Fat Man and Little Boy
Melrose Hayden Barry
White Sands
Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
Unlimited
Harold Finch
Iron Eagle III
Stockmann
90 Minutes in Heaven
Jay B. Perkins
Class Action
Dr. Getchell
Born Yesterday
Senator Hedges
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
Marie: A True Story
Fred Thompson
Feds!
Bill Belecki
Barbarians at the Gate
Jim Robinson
The Last Ride
O'Keefe
Persecuted
Dr. Charles Luther
Evel Knievel
Jay Sarno
Alleged
William Jennings Bryan
Stay the Night
Det.Malone
All the President's Men Revisited
Self
The Genesis Code
Judge Hardin
Bed of Lies
Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
Keep the Change
Otis
Last Best Chance
President Charles Ross
Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
Self
A Larger Life
Robert Parker
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
Fox News Sunday
Self
Glenn Beck
Self