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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 19, 1942
Died
November 1, 2015
Place of Birth
Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.
Also Known As
- Fred Dalton Thompson
- Senator Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
1.0 Popularity
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Known For
6.1
Senior Pastor
God's Not Dead 2
2016
5.9
Jay B. Perkins
90 Minutes in Heaven
2015
6.8
FBI Director
Allegiance
2015
🎬
0.0
Robert Parker
A Larger Life
2014
6.7
Coach Powers
23 Blast
2014
4.3
Dr. Charles Luther
Persecuted
2014
6.0
Harold Finch
Unlimited
2013
7.0
Self
All the President's Men Revisited
2013
5.3
O'Keefe
The Last Ride
2012
6.9
Sheriff
Sinister
2012
Credits
God's Not Dead 2
as Senior Pastor
2016
6.1
90 Minutes in Heaven
as Jay B. Perkins
2015
5.9
Allegiance
as FBI Director
2015
6.8
🎬
A Larger Life
as Robert Parker
2014
0.0
23 Blast
as Coach Powers
2014
6.7
Persecuted
as Dr. Charles Luther
2014
4.3
Unlimited
as Harold Finch
2013
6.0
All the President's Men Revisited
as Self
2013
7.0
The Last Ride
as O'Keefe
2012
5.3
Sinister
as Sheriff
2012
6.9
Alleged
as William Jennings Bryan
2010
4.2
The Genesis Code
as Judge Hardin
2010
2.5
Secretariat
as Bull Hancock
2010
7.4
The Good Wife
as Frank Michael Thomas
2009
7.6
Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
as Self
2009
0.0
Life on Mars
as Chief Harry Woolf
2008
6.4
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
as President Ulysses S. Grant
2007
6.5
Conviction
as Arthur Branch
2006
5.7
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
as Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
2006
5.1
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Arthur Branch
2005
8.1
Racing Stripes
as Sir Trenton (voice)
2005
5.9
Last Best Chance
as President Charles Ross
2005
4.0
Evel Knievel
as Jay Sarno
2004
4.9
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Arthur Branch
2001
7.6
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Arthur Branch
1999
7.9
Fox News Sunday
as Self
1996
3.3
Baby's Day Out
as FBI Agent Grissom
1994
6.4
In the Line of Fire
as Harry Sargent
1993
7.0
Born Yesterday
as Senator Hedges
1993
5.3
Barbarians at the Gate
as Jim Robinson
1993
6.8
Keep the Change
as Otis
1992
6.0
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
1992
5.4
Stay the Night
as Det.Malone
1992
1.0
White Sands
as Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
1992
5.9
Thunderheart
as William Dawes
1992
6.3
Bed of Lies
as Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
1992
5.0
Iron Eagle III
as Stockmann
1992
4.1
Cape Fear
as Tom Broadbent
1991
7.3
Curly Sue
as Bernard Oxbar
1991
6.4
Necessary Roughness
as Carver Purcell
1991
5.5
Class Action
as Dr. Getchell
1991
6.3
Flight of the Intruder
as Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
1991
5.7
Law & Order
as Arthur Branch
1990
7.4
Die Hard 2
as Trudeau
1990
7.0
Days of Thunder
as Big John
1990
6.4
The Hunt for Red October
as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
1990
7.4
Fat Man and Little Boy
as Melrose Hayden Barry
1989
6.2
Feds!
as Bill Belecki
1988
5.8
Roseanne
1988
6.8
Unholy Matrimony
as Frank Sweeny
1988
8.7
China Beach
1988
7.4
Wiseguy
1987
6.5
No Way Out
as CIA Director Marshall
1987
6.9
Matlock
as Gordon Lewis
1986
7.1
Marie: A True Story
as Fred Thompson
1985
5.6
🎬
Glenn Beck
as Self
N/A
1.0