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 Rela...
Known For
Complete Filmography
God's Not Dead 2
2016
as Senior Pastor
When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the publ...
90 Minutes in Heaven
2015
as Jay B. Perkins
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
A Larger Life
2014
as Robert Parker
A small town lawyer, with a comfortable small town life undertakes the biggest case of his career in an area of law he does't handle against corporate...
23 Blast
2014
as Coach Powers
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bra...
Persecuted
2014
as Dr. Charles Luther
Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther...
Unlimited
2013
as Harold Finch
A young genius on the run from the Mexican cartel must hide out in an orphanage while he uncovers the secret to a device that provides unlimited energ...
Unlimited
2013
Executive Producer
A young genius on the run from the Mexican cartel must hide out in an orphanage while he uncovers the secret to a device that provides unlimited energ...
All the President's Men Revisited
2013
as Self
The Watergate case was the original game changer of America politics. How has Watergate changed the Presidency? What effect has the scandal had on our...
The Last Ride
2012
as O'Keefe
At the end of 1952, with the best years of his career behind him, country music legend Hank Williams hires a local kid to drive him through the Appala...
Sinister
2012
as Sheriff
True-crime writer Ellison Oswald is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So...
Alleged
2010
as William Jennings Bryan
Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Charles...
The Genesis Code
2010
as Judge Hardin
A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their spiritual faith and scientific studies.
Secretariat
2010
as Bull Hancock
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. ...
Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson
2009
as Self
A notorious political satirist conceals his identity and poses as a political candidate.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007
as President Ulysses S. Grant
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastm...
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
2006
as Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what make...
Racing Stripes
2005
as Sir Trenton (voice)
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely ...
Last Best Chance
2005
as President Charles Ross
Thriller about governments around the world racing to attempt to stop a terrorist organization from gaining loose nuclear weapons and supplies before ...
Evel Knievel
2004
as Jay Sarno
Legendary daredevil Robbie "Evel" Knievel (George Eads) is profiled in this action-packed biopic helmed by John Badham. Long before extreme sports bec...
Baby's Day Out
1994
as FBI Agent Grissom
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the soci...
In the Line of Fire
1993
as Harry Sargent
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirt...
Born Yesterday
1993
as Senator Hedges
A rich millionaire hires a sophisticated journalist to bring his somewhat dim-witted girlfriend up to the level of his peers. He fears that the showgi...
Barbarians at the Gate
1993
as Jim Robinson
F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fa...
Keep the Change
1992
as Otis
A struggling artist visits his family on their Montana ranch and finds that his former flame, daughter of a family foe, is now married to an old frien...
Stay the Night
1992
as Det.Malone
Based on a true story, Barbara Hershey and Morgan Weisser portray two star crossed lovers who will stop at nothing to be together without any ridicule...
White Sands
1992
as Arms Dealer (Uncredited)
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigat...
Thunderheart
1992
as William Dawes
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Bed of Lies
1992
as Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens...
Iron Eagle III
1992
as Stockmann
Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides ...
Cape Fear
1991
as Tom Broadbent
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14...
Curly Sue
1991
as Bernard Oxbar
Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. ...
Necessary Roughness
1991
as Carver Purcell
When the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from ...
Class Action
1991
as Dr. Getchell
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie ag...
Flight of the Intruder
1991
as Court Martial Officer (uncredited)
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by t...
Die Hard 2
1990
as Trudeau
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Chris...
Days of Thunder
1990
as Big John
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hots...
The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The Ameri...
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989
as Melrose Hayden Barry
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan...
Feds
1988
as Bill Belecki
Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course, in which they learn to deal with guns ...
Unholy Matrimony
1988
as Frank Sweeny
He's after a man who married for money. Insurance money.
No Way Out
1987
as CIA Director Marshall
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretar...
Marie: A True Story
1985
as Fred Thompson
In 1978 Tennessee, a single mother and political appointee risks her career and her life to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in the penal system...