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.

Filmography

• 2016God's Not Dead 2 — Senior Pastor
• 201590 Minutes in Heaven — Jay B. Perkins
• Allegiance — FBI Director
• 201423 Blast — Coach Powers
• 2014A Larger Life — Robert Parker
• 2014Persecuted — Dr. Charles Luther
• 2013Unlimited — Harold Finch, Executive Producer
• 2012Sinister — Sheriff
• 2012The Last Ride — O'Keefe
• 2010Alleged — William Jennings Bryan
• 2010Secretariat — Bull Hancock
• 2010The Genesis Code — Judge Hardin
• The Good Wife — Frank Michael Thomas
• Life on Mars — Chief Harry Woolf
• 2007Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — President Ulysses S. Grant
• Conviction — Arthur Branch
• 2006Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World — Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
• 2005Last Best Chance — President Charles Ross
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury — Arthur Branch
• 2005Racing Stripes — Sir Trenton (voice)
• 2004Evel Knievel — Jay Sarno
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Arthur Branch
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Arthur Branch
• 1994Baby's Day Out — FBI Agent Grissom
• 1993Barbarians at the Gate — Jim Robinson
• 1993Born Yesterday — Senator Hedges
• 1993In the Line of Fire — Harry Sargent
• 1992Bed of Lies — Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
• 1992Iron Eagle III — Stockmann
• 1992Keep the Change — Otis
• 1992Stay the Night — Det.Malone
• 1992Thunderheart — William Dawes
• 1992White Sands — Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
• 1991Cape Fear — Tom Broadbent
• 1991Class Action — Dr. Getchell
• 1991Curly Sue — Bernard Oxbar
• 1991Flight of the Intruder — Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
• 1991Necessary Roughness — Carver Purcell
• 1990Days of Thunder — Big John
• 1990Die Hard 2 — Trudeau
• Law & Order — Arthur Branch
• 1990The Hunt for Red October — Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
• 1989Fat Man and Little Boy — Melrose Hayden Barry
• China Beach
• 1988Feds! — Bill Belecki
• Roseanne
• 1988Unholy Matrimony — Frank Sweeny
• 1987No Way Out — CIA Director Marshall
• Wiseguy
• Matlock — Gordon Lewis
• 1985Marie: A True Story — Fred Thompson

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2013All the President's Men Revisited — Self
• 2009Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson — Self
• Fox News Sunday — Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self - Guest
• 1983Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings — Himself
• Glenn Beck — Self