Fred Thompson
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.
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Acting
Movie
Die Hard 2
as Trudeau
1990
Movie
Sinister
as Sheriff
2012
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Arthur Branch
1999
Movie
Cape Fear
as Tom Broadbent
1991
Movie
The Hunt for Red October
as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
1990
Movie
In the Line of Fire
as Harry Sargent
1993
Movie
Days of Thunder
as Big John
1990
Movie
Baby's Day Out
as FBI Agent Grissom
1994
Movie
No Way Out
as CIA Director Marshall
1987
TV
Law & Order
as Arthur Branch
1990
TV
The Good Wife
as Frank Michael Thomas
2009
Movie
Racing Stripes
as Sir Trenton (voice)
2005
Movie
Secretariat
as Bull Hancock
2010
Movie
Curly Sue
as Bernard Oxbar
1991
Movie
God's Not Dead 2
as Senior Pastor
2016
TV
Roseanne
1988
TV
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Arthur Branch
2001
Movie
Thunderheart
as William Dawes
1992
Movie
90 Minutes in Heaven
as Jay B. Perkins
2015
Movie
White Sands
as Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
1992
Movie
Class Action
as Dr. Getchell
1991
Movie
Fat Man and Little Boy
as Melrose Hayden Barry
1989
Movie
Flight of the Intruder
as Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
1991
Movie
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
as President Ulysses S. Grant
2007
