
Fred Thompson
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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.
Known for
Credits

Die Hard 2 (1990)
as Trudeau

Sinister (2012)
as Sheriff

The Hunt for Red October (1990)
as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)

Days of Thunder (1990)
as Big John

Baby's Day Out (1994)
as FBI Agent Grissom

In the Line of Fire (1993)
as Harry Sargent

Cape Fear (1991)
as Tom Broadbent

No Way Out (1987)
as CIA Director Marshall

Secretariat (2010)
as Bull Hancock

Racing Stripes (2005)
as Sir Trenton (voice)

Thunderheart (1992)
as William Dawes

Curly Sue (1991)
as Bernard Oxbar

God's Not Dead 2 (2016)
as Senior Pastor

90 Minutes in Heaven (2015)
as Jay B. Perkins

Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
as Melrose Hayden Barry

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
as President Ulysses S. Grant

Flight of the Intruder (1991)
as Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)

White Sands (1992)
as Arms Dealer (Uncredited)

Class Action (1991)
as Dr. Getchell

Necessary Roughness (1991)
as Carver Purcell

Iron Eagle III (1992)
as Stockmann

23 Blast (2014)
as Coach Powers

Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
as Jim Robinson

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)
as Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson

Marie: A True Story (1985)
as Fred Thompson

The Last Ride (2012)
as O'Keefe

Born Yesterday (1993)
as Senator Hedges

Feds! (1988)
as Bill Belecki

Last Best Chance (2005)
as President Charles Ross

All the President's Men Revisited (2013)
as Self

Stay the Night (1992)
as Det.Malone

The Genesis Code (2010)
as Judge Hardin

Unholy Matrimony (1988)
as Frank Sweeny

Evel Knievel (2004)
as Jay Sarno

Bed of Lies (1992)
as Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes

Persecuted (2014)
as Dr. Charles Luther

Alleged (2010)
as William Jennings Bryan

Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson (2009)
as Self

Unlimited (2013)
as Harold Finch

Keep the Change (1992)
as Otis
Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings (1983)
as Himself
A Larger Life (2014)
as Robert Parker





