Fred Thompson

Also Credited As:

Sen. Fred Thompson, Fred Dalton Thompson
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Biography

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 …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

Fred Dalton Thompson on August 19, 1942 in Sheffield, Alabama, USA

LATEST CREDITS

Last Best Chance

Charles Ross

Celsius 41.11

Actor

Sinister

Sheriff

Alleged

William Jennings Bryan

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

DA Arthur Branch

Feds

Bill Belecki

Thunderheart

William Dawes

The Last Ride

Actor

Barbarians At the Gate

James D Robinson III

Curly Sue

Bernard Oxbar

Dayo

Frank DeGeorgio

MARIE: A True Story

Himself

Bed of Lies

Richard "Racehorse" Haynes

Stay the Night

Detective George Malone

In the Line of Fire

Harry Sargent

Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History

Interviewee

Baby's Day Out

FBI Agent Grissom

Evel Knievel

Jay Sarno

Days of Thunder

Big John

Necessary Roughness

Purcell

Keep the Change

Otis Rosewell

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

President Ulysses S. Grant

Secretariat

Bull Hancock

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Himself

No Way Out

Marshall