Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1942-08-19
Day of Death
2015-11-01
Place of Birth
Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.
Fred Thompson
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filmography (42)
God's Not Dead 2
2016
90 Minutes in Heaven
2015A Larger Life
2014
23 Blast
2014
Persecuted
2014
Unlimited
2013
All the President's Men Revisited
2013
The Last Ride
2012
Sinister
2012
Alleged
2010
The Genesis Code
2010
Secretariat
2010
Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
2009
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007
