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