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Acting

Fred Thompson

Career: Active from 1985 to 2014, busiest in 1992 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 5
top three billing

Average score: 53/100

Highest rated: In the Line of Fire
79/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 43 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Fred Thompson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Fantasy
0.6, average 1.7
Uncanny
1.6, average 2.5
Absurdist Humor
1.4, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Underdog Story 3
True Story 2
Nostalgic 2
Family-Friendly 2
Historical Drama 2
Political Thriller 2
Moral Dilemma 2
Feel-Good 2
Lighthearted 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

51

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

12 titles · average score 46

God's Not Dead 2

30

as Senior Pastor

Allegiance

61

TV show · as FBI Director

90 Minutes in Heaven

38

as Jay B. Perkins

Persecuted

24

as Dr. Charles Luther

as Robert Parker

23 Blast

49

as Coach Powers

Unlimited

as Harold Finch

Sinister

63

as Sheriff

The Last Ride

43

as O'Keefe

Secretariat

66

as Bull Hancock

Alleged

36

as William Jennings Bryan

The Genesis Code

49

as Judge Hardin

2000s

10 titles · average score 62

The Good Wife

85

TV show · as Frank Michael Thomas

Life on Mars

73

TV show · as Chief Harry Woolf

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

71

as President Ulysses S. Grant

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

40

as Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson

Conviction

42

TV show · as Arthur Branch

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

77

TV show · as Arthur Branch

Last Best Chance

as President Charles Ross

Racing Stripes

47

as Sir Trenton (voice)

Evel Knievel

53

as Jay Sarno

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

68

TV show · as Arthur Branch

1990s

20 titles · average score 57

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

73

TV show · as Arthur Branch

Baby's Day Out

45

as FBI Agent Grissom

In the Line of Fire

79

as Harry Sargent

Barbarians at the Gate

71

as Jim Robinson

Thunderheart

72

as William Dawes

Iron Eagle III

24

as Stockmann

Curly Sue

35

as Bernard Oxbar

Necessary Roughness

49

as Carver Purcell

Days of Thunder

56

as Big John

Law & Order

74

TV show · as Arthur Branch

Die Hard 2

68

as Trudeau

The Hunt for Red October

75

as Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)

1980s

9 titles · average score 62

Fat Man and Little Boy

54

as Melrose Hayden Barry

Feds!

43

as Bill Belecki

Unholy Matrimony

as Frank Sweeny

China Beach

77

TV show

Roseanne

71

TV show

Wiseguy

59

TV show

No Way Out

77

as CIA Director Marshall

Matlock

54

TV show · as Gordon Lewis

Marie: A True Story

57

as Fred Thompson