Fred Thompson
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Sinister
as Sheriff 2012
Cape Fear
as Tom Broadbent 1991
The Hunt for Red October
as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group) 1990
In the Line of Fire
as Harry Sargent 1993
Days of Thunder
as Big John 1990
Baby's Day Out
as FBI Agent Grissom 1994
No Way Out
as CIA Director Marshall 1987
Racing Stripes
as Sir Trenton (voice) 2005
Secretariat
as Bull Hancock 2010
Curly Sue
as Bernard Oxbar 1991
God's Not Dead 2
as Senior Pastor 2016
Thunderheart
as William Dawes 1992
White Sands
as Arms Dealer (Uncredited) 1992
90 Minutes in Heaven
as Jay B. Perkins 2015
Class Action
as Dr. Getchell 1991
Fat Man and Little Boy
as Melrose Hayden Barry 1989