Cast & creator
Fred Thompson
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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.
Also known as: Fred Dalton Thompson, Senator Fred Thompson, Фред Далтон Томпсон, フレッド・ダルトン・トンプソン
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1983–2016 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (58)
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Arthur Branch
1999
Law & Order
Arthur Branch
1990
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Arthur Branch
2001
The Good Wife
Frank Michael Thomas
2009
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Guest
1992
Matlock
Gordon Lewis
1986
Wiseguy
1987
Fox News Sunday
Self
1996
China Beach
1988
Die Hard 2
Trudeau
1990
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Arthur Branch
2005
Life on Mars
Chief Harry Woolf
2008
Sinister
Sheriff
2012
The Hunt for Red October
Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
1990
Conviction
Arthur Branch
2006
Days of Thunder
Big John
1990
Roseanne
1988
Cape Fear
Tom Broadbent
1991
Baby's Day Out
FBI Agent Grissom
1994
Allegiance
FBI Director
2015
In the Line of Fire
Harry Sargent
1993
Racing Stripes
Sir Trenton (voice)
2005
Secretariat
Bull Hancock
2010
No Way Out
CIA Director Marshall
1987
Thunderheart
William Dawes
1992
Curly Sue
Bernard Oxbar
1991
90 Minutes in Heaven
Jay B. Perkins
2015
God's Not Dead 2
Senior Pastor
2016
Fat Man and Little Boy
Melrose Hayden Barry
1989
Flight of the Intruder
Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
1991
Class Action
Dr. Getchell
1991
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
President Ulysses S. Grant
2007
White Sands
Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
1992
Necessary Roughness
Carver Purcell
1991
Marie: A True Story
Fred Thompson
1985
Barbarians at the Gate
Jim Robinson
1993
23 Blast
Coach Powers
2014
Iron Eagle III
Stockmann
1992
The Last Ride
O'Keefe
2012
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
2006
Born Yesterday
Senator Hedges
1993
All the President's Men Revisited
Self
2013
Feds!
Bill Belecki
1988
Evel Knievel
Jay Sarno
2004
The Genesis Code
Judge Hardin
2010Glenn Beck
Self
Bed of Lies
Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
1992
Last Best Chance
President Charles Ross
2005
Unholy Matrimony
Frank Sweeny
1988
Stay the Night
Det.Malone
1992
Persecuted
Dr. Charles Luther
2014
Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
Self
2009
Keep the Change
Otis
1992
Alleged
William Jennings Bryan
2010
Unlimited
Harold Finch
2013Unlimited
Executive Producer
2013Summer of Judgement: The Watergate Hearings
Himself
1983A Larger Life
Robert Parker
2014