Fred Thompson
Acting
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.
TV Shows(15)
Allegiance
FBI Director
2015
The Good Wife
Frank Michael Thomas
2009
Life on Mars
Chief Harry Woolf
2008
Conviction
Arthur Branch
2006
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Arthur Branch
2005
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Arthur Branch
2001
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Arthur Branch
1999
Fox News Sunday
Self
1996
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
1992
Law & Order
Arthur Branch
1990
Roseanne
1988
China Beach
1988
Wiseguy
1987
Matlock
Gordon Lewis
1986
Glenn Beck
Self
Movies(42)
God's Not Dead 2
Senior Pastor
2016
90 Minutes in Heaven
Jay B. Perkins
2015
A Larger Life
Robert Parker
2014
23 Blast
Coach Powers
2014
Persecuted
Dr. Charles Luther
2014
Unlimited
Harold Finch
2013
All the President's Men Revisited
Self
2013
The Last Ride
O'Keefe
2012
Sinister
Sheriff
2012
Alleged
William Jennings Bryan
2010
The Genesis Code
Judge Hardin
2010
Secretariat
Bull Hancock
2010
Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
Self
2009
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
President Ulysses S. Grant
2007
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
2006
Racing Stripes
Sir Trenton (voice)
2005
Last Best Chance
President Charles Ross
2005
Evel Knievel
Jay Sarno
2004
Baby's Day Out
FBI Agent Grissom
1994
In the Line of Fire
Harry Sargent
1993
Born Yesterday
Senator Hedges
1993
Barbarians at the Gate
Jim Robinson
1993
Keep the Change
Otis
1992
Stay the Night
Det.Malone
1992
White Sands
Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
1992
Thunderheart
William Dawes
1992
Bed of Lies
Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
1992
Iron Eagle III
Stockmann
1992
Cape Fear
Tom Broadbent
1991
Curly Sue
Bernard Oxbar
1991
Necessary Roughness
Carver Purcell
1991
Class Action
Dr. Getchell
1991
Flight of the Intruder
Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
1991
Die Hard 2
Trudeau
1990
Days of Thunder
Big John
1990
The Hunt for Red October
Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
1990
Fat Man and Little Boy
Melrose Hayden Barry
1989
Feds!
Bill Belecki
1988
Unholy Matrimony
Frank Sweeny
1988
No Way Out
CIA Director Marshall
1987
Marie: A True Story
Fred Thompson
1985
Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings
Himself
1983