The "Law & Order" alum, a former U.S. senator and GOP candidate for president, stars in a new movie about corruption in the U.S. Senate. By Paul Bond Fred Thompson - P 2012 In the film ...

Spacek-as-Ragghianti: “Somebody has to stand up to them, Fred!” Thompson-as-Thompson: “Marie, they’re going to smear you with everything they can.” The movie was not a huge smash.

He had a formidable presence both on the U.S. Senate floor and the movie screen. Now family and friends from Washington to Hollywood are mourning the death of Fred Thompson. The former senator and ...

Fred Dalton Thompson, a giant in Tennessee politics whose ... said that Thompson always played himself — in politics, movies and life. “Why would he be anyone else?” he said.

You didn't have to agree with Fred Dalton Thompson's politics to enjoy him ... But for generations of movie and TV fans, he was better known as a take-no-BS (yet folksy and approachable ...

Fred Thompson, whose main profession has been as a lawyer and lobbyist, has risen to prominence by playing many versions of the same authority figure in 21 movies and a variety of TV shows.

Fred Thompson, who straddled the worlds of Hollywood ... Fred was the same man on the floor of the Senate, the movie studio, or the town square of Lawrenceburg, his home. "Fred believed that ...

“Fred was the same man on the floor of the Senate, the movie studio, or the town square of … his home.” During his acting career, Thompson appeared in a number of movies, television shows ...

She was ordered reinstated. A book was written about the case, and a movie was made. The credits included the words “Fred Thompson as Himself.” Hailed as an acting natural, he found himself in ...