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