Fred Thompson

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

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Good Wife

Matlock

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Wiseguy

China Beach

All Movies (42)

• God's Not Dead 22016 · as Senior Pastor
• 90 Minutes in Heaven2015 · as Jay B. Perkins
• A Larger Life2014 · as Robert Parker
• 23 Blast2014 · as Coach Powers
• Persecuted2014 · as Dr. Charles Luther
• Unlimited2013 · as Harold Finch
• All the President's Men Revisited2013 · as Self
• Sinister2012 · as Sheriff
• The Last Ride2012 · as O'Keefe
• Alleged2010 · as William Jennings Bryan
• The Genesis Code2010 · as Judge Hardin
• Secretariat2010 · as Bull Hancock
• Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson2009 · as Self
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee2007 · as President Ulysses S. Grant
• Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World2006 · as Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
• Racing Stripes2005 · as Sir Trenton (voice)
• Last Best Chance2005 · as President Charles Ross
• Evel Knievel2004 · as Jay Sarno
• Baby's Day Out1994 · as FBI Agent Grissom
• In the Line of Fire1993 · as Harry Sargent
• Born Yesterday1993 · as Senator Hedges
• Barbarians at the Gate1993 · as Jim Robinson
• Keep the Change1992 · as Otis
• Stay the Night1992 · as Det.Malone
• White Sands1992 · as Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
• Thunderheart1992 · as William Dawes
• Bed of Lies1992 · as Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
• Iron Eagle III1992 · as Stockmann
• Cape Fear1991 · as Tom Broadbent
• Curly Sue1991 · as Bernard Oxbar
• Necessary Roughness1991 · as Carver Purcell
• Class Action1991 · as Dr. Getchell
• Flight of the Intruder1991 · as Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
• Die Hard 21990 · as Trudeau
• Days of Thunder1990 · as Big John
• The Hunt for Red October1990 · as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
• Fat Man and Little Boy1989 · as Melrose Hayden Barry
• Feds!1988 · as Bill Belecki
• Unholy Matrimony1988 · as Frank Sweeny
• No Way Out1987 · as CIA Director Marshall
• Marie: A True Story1985 · as Fred Thompson
• Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings1983 · as Himself

All TV Shows (15)

• Allegiance2015 · as FBI Director
• The Good Wife2009 · as Frank Michael Thomas
• Life on Mars2008 · as Chief Harry Woolf
• Conviction2006 · as Arthur Branch
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury2005 · as Arthur Branch
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Arthur Branch
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Arthur Branch
• Fox News Sunday1996 · as Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992 · as Self - Guest
• Law & Order1990 · as Arthur Branch
• Roseanne1988
• China Beach1988
• Wiseguy1987
• Matlock1986 · as Gordon Lewis
• Glenn Beck— · as Self