Acting

Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson este cunoscut mai ales pentru Lege și ordine: Brigada specială, Lege și ordine, Soția perfectă și Roseanne. Fred Thompson s-a născut pe 19 august 1942. Fred Thompson a murit pe 1 noiembrie 2015, la vârsta de 73 ani.

Născut: 19 august 1942
Locul nașterii: Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.
Decedat: 1 noiembrie 2015 (73 ani)

Biografie

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.

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