Fred Thompson

Known for ActingBorn 1942-08-19Died 2015-11-01Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.

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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Unholy Matrimony

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Good Wife

Unlimited

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Secretariat

The Hunt for Red October

China Beach

Law & Order

Cape Fear

All the President's Men Revisited

Sinister

23 Blast

Keep the Change

Matlock

In the Line of Fire

Die Hard 2

Allegiance

Barbarians at the Gate

No Way Out

Roseanne

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Life on Mars

Wiseguy

Baby's Day Out

God's Not Dead 2

Thunderheart

Days of Thunder

Curly Sue

Class Action

Fat Man and Little Boy

Conviction

Last Best Chance

90 Minutes in Heaven

Racing Stripes

Bed of Lies

White Sands

Flight of the Intruder

Feds!

Marie: A True Story

The Last Ride

Necessary Roughness

Evel Knievel

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Born Yesterday

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Persecuted