Fred Thompson
Known for Acting · 57 credits
- Born
- 1942-08-19
- Died
- 2015-11-01
- Place of birth
- Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.
- Also known as
- Fred Dalton Thompson · Senator Fred Thompson · Фред Далтон Томпсон
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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Known For
TV Shows (15)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Arthur Branch
Law & Order
1990
as Arthur Branch
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Arthur Branch
The Good Wife
2009
as Frank Michael Thomas
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self - Guest
Matlock
1986
as Gordon Lewis
Wiseguy
1987
China Beach
1988
Fox News Sunday
1996
as Self
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
as Arthur Branch
Conviction
2006
as Arthur Branch
Life on Mars
2008
as Chief Harry Woolf
Allegiance
2015
as FBI Director
Roseanne
1988
Glenn Beck
as Self
Movies (42)
Sinister
2012
as Sheriff
Die Hard 2
1990
as Trudeau
The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
Baby's Day Out
1994
as FBI Agent Grissom
Cape Fear
1991
as Tom Broadbent
Days of Thunder
1990
as Big John
Secretariat
2010
as Bull Hancock
Racing Stripes
2005
as Sir Trenton (voice)
In the Line of Fire
1993
as Harry Sargent
No Way Out
1987
as CIA Director Marshall
Curly Sue
1991
as Bernard Oxbar
God's Not Dead 2
2016
as Senior Pastor
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007
as President Ulysses S. Grant
Thunderheart
1992
as William Dawes
Flight of the Intruder
1991
as Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
White Sands
1992
as Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989
as Melrose Hayden Barry
Necessary Roughness
1991
as Carver Purcell
23 Blast
2014
as Coach Powers
90 Minutes in Heaven
2015
as Jay B. Perkins
Born Yesterday
1993
as Senator Hedges
Iron Eagle III
1992
as Stockmann
Class Action
1991
as Dr. Getchell
Unlimited
2013
as Harold Finch
Feds!
1988
as Bill Belecki
Barbarians at the Gate
1993
as Jim Robinson
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
2006
as Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
Alleged
2010
as William Jennings Bryan
Evel Knievel
2004
as Jay Sarno
Marie: A True Story
1985
as Fred Thompson
Bed of Lies
1992
as Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
Persecuted
2014
as Dr. Charles Luther
Unholy Matrimony
1988
as Frank Sweeny
Keep the Change
1992
as Otis
The Genesis Code
2010
as Judge Hardin
Stay the Night
1992
as Det.Malone
All the President's Men Revisited
2013
as Self
The Last Ride
2012
as O'Keefe
Last Best Chance
2005
as President Charles Ross
Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
2009
as Self
A Larger Life
2014
as Robert Parker
Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings
1983
as Himself
About 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… With 57 credits spanning from 1983 to 2016, Fred Thompson has appeared in 42 films and 15 TV shows.
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Most Popular Fred Thompson Movies
- Sinister (2012) — as Sheriff
- Die Hard 2 (1990) — as Trudeau
- The Hunt for Red October (1990) — as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
- Baby's Day Out (1994) — as FBI Agent Grissom
- Cape Fear (1991) — as Tom Broadbent
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