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Fred Dalton Thompson
Highest Rated: 96% In the Line of Fire (1993)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Aug 19, 1942
Birthplace: Sheffield, Alabama, USA
As an actor and former United States Senator, Fred Dalton Thompson had been both widely-recognized in prominent onscreen roles and active in important historical events. A former litigator, Thompson was plucked from private practice by former Tennessee senator Howard Baker in 1973 to serve as the Republican counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee. Thompson made an immediate splash, asking Richard Nixon's former deputy assist Alexander Butterfield the famous question, "[A]re you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the president?" Since then, Thompson achieved moderate success in all three fields of expertise - acting, politics and litigation. But it was his film and television persona - one incidentally not far afield from his political self - that made him a recognized face, but by no means, a household name. Fred Thompson died on November 1, 2015 of a recurrence of lymphoma. He was 73.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10% | 62% | God's Not Dead 2 | Senior Pastor (Character) | $20.8M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Larger Life | Robert Parker (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 26% | 50% | 90 Minutes in Heaven | Jay B. Perkins (Character) | $4.8M | 2015 |
| 36% | 66% | 23 Blast | Coach Powers (Character) | $485.1K | 2014 |
| 0% | 58% | Persecuted | Dr. Charles Luther (Character) | $1.6M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unlimited | Harold Finch (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 63% | 62% | Sinister | Sheriff (Character) | $48.1M | 2012 |
| 47% | 52% | The Last Ride | O'Keefe (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Alleged | William Jennings Bryan (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 64% | 76% | Secretariat | Bull Hancock (Character) | $59.7M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | The Genesis Code | Judge Hardin (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perfect Valor | Narrator | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | President Ulysses S. Grant (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 43% | 27% | Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World | Self | $887.4K | 2005 |
| 35% | 42% | Racing Stripes | Sir Trenton (Voice) | $49.2M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Best Chance | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Evel Knievel | Jay Sarno (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 24% | 52% | Baby's Day Out | FBI Agent Dale Grissom (Character) | $16.6M | 1994 |
| 71% | 74% | Barbarians at the Gate | Jim Robinson (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 96% | 79% | In the Line of Fire | Harry Sargent (Character) | $102.2M | 1993 |
| 25% | 27% | Born Yesterday | Sen. Hedges (Character) | $17.8M | 1993 |
| 14% | 24% | Aces: Iron Eagle III | Stockman (Character) | $2.5M | 1992 |
| 44% | 41% | White Sands | Arms Dealer (Character) | $8.2M | 1992 |
| 89% | 75% | Thunderheart | William Dawes (Character) | $20.1M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bed of Lies | Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Keep the Change | Otis (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 77% | 51% | Class Action | Dr. George Getchell (Character) | $23.9M | 1991 |
| 75% | 77% | Cape Fear | Tom Broadbent (Character) | $76.4M | 1991 |
| 13% | 50% | Curly Sue | Bernard Oxbar (Character) | $29.7M | 1991 |
| 35% | 47% | Necessary Roughness | Carver Purcell (Character) | $23.6M | 1991 |
| 88% | 88% | The Hunt for Red October | Rear Admiral Joshua Painter - USS Enterprise (Character) | $119.1M | 1990 |
| 38% | 60% | Days of Thunder | Big John (Character) | $80.6M | 1990 |
| 69% | 70% | Die Hard 2 | Trudeau (Character) | $115.3M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock: The Hunting Party | Gordon Lewis (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 33% | 50% | Feds | Bill Bilecki (Character) | $3.5M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unholy Matrimony | Frank Sweeny (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 92% | 72% | No Way Out | CIA Director Marshall (Character) | $31.7M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Marie: A True Story | Fred Thompson (Character) | $1.9M | 1985 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47% | 88% | Allegiance | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 93% | 90% | The Good Wife | Frank Michael Thomas (Guest Star) | 2011-2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life on Mars | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Arthur Branch (Character) | 2002-2007 |
| 22% | 80% | Conviction | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| 78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Arthur Branch (Guest Star) | 2003 2005-2006 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law & Order: Trial by Jury | D.A. Arthur Branch (Character) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
| 76% | 76% | Roseanne | Keith Faber (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wiseguy | Knox Pooley (Guest Star) | 1988 |