Fred Thompson
ActingFreddie 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
Die Hard 2
Trudeau
Sinister
Sheriff
The Hunt for Red October
Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
In the Line of Fire
Harry Sargent
Cape Fear
Tom Broadbent
Days of Thunder
Big John
Secretariat
Bull Hancock
Baby's Day Out
FBI Agent Grissom
Racing Stripes
Sir Trenton (voice)
No Way Out
CIA Director Marshall
Filmography — Acting
Die Hard 2
Trudeau
Sinister
Sheriff
The Hunt for Red October
Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
In the Line of Fire
Harry Sargent
Cape Fear
Tom Broadbent
Days of Thunder
Big John
Secretariat
Bull Hancock
Baby's Day Out
FBI Agent Grissom
Racing Stripes
Sir Trenton (voice)
No Way Out
CIA Director Marshall
Curly Sue
Bernard Oxbar
God's Not Dead 2
Senior Pastor
Thunderheart
William Dawes
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
President Ulysses S. Grant
90 Minutes in Heaven
Jay B. Perkins
Barbarians at the Gate
Jim Robinson
Flight of the Intruder
Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
White Sands
Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
Necessary Roughness
Carver Purcell
Fat Man and Little Boy
Melrose Hayden Barry
Born Yesterday
Senator Hedges
Class Action
Dr. Getchell
Iron Eagle III
Stockmann
All the President's Men Revisited
Self
Marie: A True Story
Fred Thompson
23 Blast
Coach Powers
Persecuted
Dr. Charles Luther
Feds!
Bill Belecki
Evel Knievel
Jay Sarno
Unholy Matrimony
Frank Sweeny
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
Alleged
William Jennings Bryan
The Last Ride
O'Keefe
Stay the Night
Det.Malone
The Genesis Code
Judge Hardin
Bed of Lies
Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
Last Best Chance
President Charles Ross
Unlimited
Harold Finch
Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
Self
Keep the Change
Otis
Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings
Himself
A Larger Life
Robert Parker