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