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Where Are They Now - March 7, 2014
Hello fans,Fred Dalton Thompson is known for more than just his acting career. He has also been an attorney, lobbyist, columnist, and even a radio host! Thompson represented Tennessee in the U.S. Senate from 1994 to 2003, and began portraying Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch on the NBC television series Law & Order in 2002. Read on to find out more about Thompson's roles in acting and politics, and find out what he is up to now.
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Email Melissa *View Past Issues: Where Are They Now Archives*--DEAD OR ALIVE?--See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Sal Mineo: He appeared in the movies "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Exodus", he was stabbed to death on the street
Jamey Sheridan: He plays Captain James Deakins on the TV series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", he's also appeared in the TV mini-series "The Stand", the series "Shannon's Deal", and various movies
Lawrence Kasdan: Director/writer/producer, films include "Body Heat", "The Big Chill", and "The Accidental Tourist", co-wrote the screenplays to "The Empire Strikes Back", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and "Return of the Jedi"
(Answer at the bottom)*Fred Dalton ThompsonLearn More About Fred Dalton Thompson on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: August 19, 1942, Sheffield, Alabama
CLAIM TO FAME: He is known for his role on the NBC television series Law & Order, playing Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch.
FAMILY LIFE: He was married to Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey from 1959-1985. They have three children together. He has been married to Jeri Thompson since 2002 and they have two children.
INFO: Thompson served as a U.S. Attorney and was on the Watergate Committee that investigated Nixon. In 1985, he played himself in the movie Marie, which led to several film roles. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1994 to 2003, after which he played the role of Arthur Branch on Law & Order.
TRIVIA: Went to Memphis State University in 1964 and Vanderbilt University in 1967.
Can be seen on the archival footage of the Watergate Hearings in Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995). He was one of the active lawyers on the Watergate committee during the trial.
Helped introduce President George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention (2004) in New York.
Is one of four cast members from Law & Order (1990) whose character became a regular on a "Law & Order" spin-off.
Has played the same character, District Attorney Arthur Branch, in five different series: Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005)
and Conviction (2006).
WHERE IS HE NOW: Fred Thompson represented Tennessee as a US Senator from 1994 to 2003. Ending months of speculation, declared that he was a candidate for President on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) on 5 September 2007. After failing to win a single primary, Thompson ended his presidential campaign in January 2008 and later endorsed Senator John McCain.
In April 2007, Fred Thompson disclosed that in 2004, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. He said the cancer was in remission and he was suffering no symptoms.
* CREDITS:2012 The Last Ride...O'Keefe
2011-2012 The Good Wife (TV Series)...Frank Michael Thomas
Gloves Come Off (2012)
Foreign Affairs (2011)
2012/I Sinister...Sheriff
2010 Alleged...William Jennings Bryan (as Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson)
2010 Secretariat...Bull Hancock
2010 The Genesis Code...Judge Hardin
2010 Ironmen...Governor Neeley
2009 Life on Mars (TV Series)...Chief Harry Woolf
The Simple Secret of the Note in Us All (2009)
2007 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (TV Movie)...President Ulysses S. Grant (as Fred Thompson)
2002-2007 Law & Order (TV Series)...D.A. Arthur Branch
2006 Conviction (TV Series)...D.A. Arthur Branch
Pilot (2006)
2003-2006 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)...D.A. Arthur Branch
2005-2006 Law & Order: Trial by Jury (TV Series)...D.A. Arthur Branch
2005 Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World...Fred Dalton Thompson
2005 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)...D.A. Arthur Branch
In the Wee Small Hours: Part 2 (2005)
2005 Last Best Chance (Video)...President Charles Ross
2005 Racing Stripes...Sir Trenton (voice)
2004 Evel Knievel (TV Movie)...Jay Sarno
2001 Rachel and Andrew Jackson: A Love Story (TV Movie)...Andrew Jackson (voice)
2000 Sex and the City (TV Series)...Politician on TV
Politically Erect (2000)
1994 Baby's Day Out...FBI Agent Dale Grissom
1993 In the Line of Fire...Harry Sargent
1993 Born Yesterday...Sen. Hedges
1993 Barbarians at the Gate (TV Movie)...Jim Robinson
1989-1993 Matlock (TV Series)...Gordon Lewis / Prosecutor Mr. McGonigal
1992 Keep the Change (TV Movie)...Otis
1992 Day-O (TV Movie)...Frank DeGeorgio
1992 Stay the Night (TV Movie)...Det. Malone
1992 White Sands...Arms Dealer (uncredited)
1992 Thunderheart...William Dawes
1992 Bed of Lies (TV Movie)...Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes
1992 Aces: Iron Eagle III...Stockman
1991 Cape Fear...Tom Broadbent
1991 Curly Sue...Bernard Oxbar
1991 Necessary Roughness...Carver Purcell
1991 Class Action...Dr. Getchell
1991 Flight of the Intruder...Court-Martial Captain (uncredited)
1990 Die Hard 2...Trudeau
1990 Days of Thunder...Big John
1990 The Hunt for Red October...Admiral Painter
1989 Fat Man and Little Boy...Maj. Gen. Melrose Hayden Barry
1989 Roseanne (TV Series)...Keith Faber
Let's Call It Quits (1989)
1989 China Beach (TV Series)...Lt. Col. Reinhardt
Twilight (1989)
1988 Wiseguy (TV Series)...Knox Pooley
1988 Feds...Bill Bilecki
1988 Unholy Matrimony (TV Movie)...Frank Sweeny (as Fred Thompson)
1987 No Way Out...Marshall
To see Then & Now pictures of Fred Dalton Thompson, visit: Celebrity Nooz*--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Sal Mineo - DEAD (Murder)
Born: 001/10/1939 Died: 02/12/1976
Jamey Sheridan - ALIVE
Born: 07/12/1951
Lawrence Kasdan - ALIVE
Born: 01/14/1949
*WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK... 3/5
Vitaly Kovalenko, 66, Russian chess composer.
3/4
Laszlo Fekete, 59, Hungarian footballer.
Mark Freidkin, 60, Russian writer.
Lawrence Patrick Henry, 79, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop (1987-1990) and Archbishop of Cape Town (1990-2009).
Kurt Chew-Een Lee, 87, American military officer, first Asian-American officer in the Marine Corps, recipient of the Navy Cross.
Daniel Moscowitz, 59, American Chabad Rabbi, complications from gall bladder surgery.
Maja Petrin, 41, Croatian television and stage actress, heart failure.
William R. Pogue, 84, American astronaut (Skylab) and Air Force pilot (Thunderbirds).
Wu Tianming, 74, Chinese film director and producer, heart attack.
3/3
Robert Ashley, 83, American composer, complications from cirrhosis.
Christine Buchegger, 71, Austrian actress, complications from surgery.
Stan Koziol, 48, American soccer player, leukemia.
Harold Mowery, 84, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1976-1990) and Senate (1993-2004), pneumonia.
Sherwin B. Nuland, 83, American author and surgeon, prostate cancer.
Stan Rickaby, 89, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion).
Juan A. Rivero, 90, American Puerto Rican biologist, founder of the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo, cancer.
Billy Robinson, 74, British wrestler and trainer.
Don Shows, 75, American football coach.
Joab Thomas, 81, American university administrator, Chancellor of NC State (1975-1981), President of the University of Alabama (1981-1988) and Penn State (1990-1995).
Aino-Maija Tikkanen, 86, Finnish actress (The Harvest Month, Mother of Mine), recipient of the Order of the Lion of Finland (1983).
Xu Chongde, 85, Chinese political scientist and professor.
3/2
Ryhor Baradulin, 79, Belarusian poet.
Peter Bares, 78, German organist and composer.
Cesar Barrientos Pellecer, 61, Guatemalan judge, Justice of the Supreme Court (since 2009), suicide by gunshot.
Alexander Belinsky, 85, Russian theatre director, People's Artist of Russia.
Molly Bobak, 92, Canadian war artist, recipient of the Order of Canada (1995).
Bhuvnesh Chaturvedi, 85, Indian politician, Minister of State (1993-1996), MP for Kota (1978-1996), Rajasthan MLA for Kota (1972-1977).
Porky Chedwick, 96, American radio announcer.
Jap Chong, 71, Singaporean musician, heart attack.
Chung Chi-yung, 94, Chinese Hong Kong educator, co-founder of Shue Yan College.
Gerry Collins, 57, Irish anti-smoking campaigner and football player (Kilmacud Crokes GAA), lung cancer.
Gail Gilmore, 76, Canadian actress, lung cancer.
Jacob Jervell, 88, Norwegian theologian, priest and author.
Justin Kaplan, 88, American biographer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1967), Parkinson's disease.
Benjamin Lambert, 77, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1978-1986) and Senate (1986-2008).
Stanley Rubin, 96, American film and television producer (Revenge, White Hunter Black Heart, Bracken's World, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir)
3/1
Khondker Mahbubuddin Ahmed, 89, Bangladeshi politician, MP for Dhaka (2001-2011).
Nancy Charest, 54, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA for Matane (2003-2007).
Emilio Di Guida, 50, Venezuelan race car driver, suspected heart attack.
Zdenek Hajny, 72, Czech artist.
Alan Heyman, 82, South Korean traditional music scholar.
Eckart Hofling, 77, German Catholic priest and missionary.
Ronnie Kaplan, 87, American racing team owner and designer (Trans-Am Series).
Bangaru Laxman, 74, Indian politician, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (2000-2001), cardiac arrest.
Phil Munroe, 91, American baseball coach (Cal State Northridge Matadors).
Wally Pryor, 86, American sports announcer (Texas Longhorns), Alzheimer's disease.
Alain Resnais, 91, French film director (Night and Fog, Hiroshima mon amour).
Tommy Ed Roberts, 73, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1974-1978) and Senate (1994-2006).
Robert L. Spencer, 94, American fashion designer, heart attack.
Paul Tant, 68, Belgian politician, Mayor of Kruishoutem (1977-2009).
2/28
Autumn Ratke, 28, CEO of Bitcoin exchange firm First Meta, suspected suicide.
Guy Alexandre, 68, Haitian diplomat, Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (1995-2003), heart attack.
Rostislav Belyakov, 94, Russian aircraft designer (MiG-29, MiG-31).
Kevon Carter, 30, Trinidadian footballer, suspected heart attack.
Lawrence Connor, 88, American journalist and editor (The Indianapolis Star).
Hugo Brandt Corstius, 78, Dutch author.
Ophelia DeVore, 93, American businesswoman and model.
Janamaddhi Hanamachhaastri, 90, Indian author.
Robert Holliday, 81, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1962-1968) and Senate (1966-1970, 1980-1996).
Lee Lorch, 98, American desegregation activist.
Michio Mado, 104, Japanese poet.
Laurence O'Dwyer, 77, American stage actor, Helen Hayes Award winner (2010).
Karl Anton Rickenbacher, 73, Swiss conductor, heart attack.
Sam Rosen, 92, Czech-born American Holocaust survivor and activist.
C. R. Simha, 71, Indian actor and director, prostate cancer.
Gib Singleton, 78, American sculptor.
Garnell Stamps, 79, American civil rights activist.
James Tague, 77, American writer, key witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Randy Trautman, 53, American football player (Washington Redskins, Calgary Stampeders).
Bryan Whyte, 34, Scottish darts player, traffic collision.
Norman Yonemoto, 67, American video and visualization artist.
Nadeem Al Zaro, Jordanian politician.
2/27
Lou Abrahams, 86, Australian yachtsman, two-time winner of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
Aaron Allston, 53, American game designer (Dungeons & Dragons) and sci-fi author (X-Wing), heart failure.
Saeed Fleih al-Osman, Iraqi councilman and tribal leader, suicide bombing.
Raymond James Boland, 82, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama (1988-1993) and Kansas City-St Joseph (1993-2005), complications from lung cancer.
Bryan Clarke, 81, British geneticist.
Luis Diaz, 42, Cuban baseball player.
Max Gors, 67, American judge, member of the South Dakota Supreme Court (2001-2002).
Robert Guthrie, 56, American artist and graphic designer, suspected heart attack.
Jan Hoet, 77, Belgian art critic and curator, heart attack.
Tim Kehoe, 43, American author and toy inventor.
Assad Kotaite, 89, Lebanese administrator, Secretary-General and Council President of the International Civil Aviation Organization (1976-2006).
Huber Matos, 95, Cuban dissident, activist and writer, heart attack.
Arnstein Overkil, 76, Norwegian police chief and jurist.
Terry Rand, 79, American basketball player (Marquette Warriors), second round NBA draft pick (1956), heart attack.
Richard Sacher, 71, Czech politician, Czechoslovak Interior Minister (1989-1990), member of the Federal Assembly (1990-1992).
Wilford Scypion, 55, American boxer, Golden Gloves National Middleweight Champion (1978), complications from pneumonia.
Vicente T. Ximenes, 94, American civil rights activist.
2/26
Chua Sian Chin, 80, Singaporean politician, Health Minister (1968-1974), heart failure.
Joseph Dear, 63, American civil servant, Director of OSHA (1993-1997), CIO of CalPERS (since 2009), prostate cancer.
Sorel Etrog, 80, Canadian sculptor, recipient of the Order of Canada (1994).
Georges Hamel, 66, Canadian country music singer-songwriter.
Phyllis Krasilovsky, 87, American children's author, stroke.
Rabi Mustapha, Nigerian actress and singer.
Dezso Novak, 75, Hungarian Olympic champion football player (1964, 1968) and coach.
Gordon Nutt, 81, English footballer (Coventry City).
Frank Reed, 59, American soul singer (The Chi-Lites).
Frankie Sardo, 77, American rock and roll musician, cancer.
Michael Taylor, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Tim Wilson, 52, American stand-up comedian and country music singer, heart attack.
Fumio Yamamoto, 79, Japanese news presenter, alveolar hemorrhage.