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Dec 5, 2021 · Unlike the majority of his "Law & Order" co-stars, actor Fred Thompson, who died in 2015, didn't come from an acting background. Born in Alabama in 1942, Thompson embarked on a career as an ...
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Fred Dalton Thompson was an actor who played District Attorney Arthur Branch on Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial By Jury. He was a regular cast member on Law & Order for five seasons. He first appeared in the Season 13 episode "American Jihad", and made his last appearance in the Season 17 episode "The Family Hour". Thompson was also a regular cast member on Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
He appeared in eleven different episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He first appeared in the Season 4 episode "Fallacy", and made his last appearance in the Season 7 episode "Gone". He also appeared in the episode "In the Wee Small Hours (2)" from Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Thompson appeared as D.A. Arthur Branch in the pilot episode of Conviction.
He died on November 1, 2015, after a battle with lymphoma at the age of 73.
•He is the only actor to be a regular on two different Law & Order series at the same time. From March to May 2005, he played DA Arthur Branch on both Law & Order (1990) and Law & Order: Trial by Jury.
•Thompson's character Branch is one of only five characters who have appeared in all of the first four series in the Law & Order franchise. The other four are Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin), Elizabeth Rodgers (Leslie Hendrix), Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach), and Elizabeth Olivet (Carolyn McCormick).
•Along with Chris Noth, Dann Florek, Alana De La Garza, and Jerry Orbach, he is one of five Law & Order cast members who later joined the regular cast of one of the spin-off series, although as noted above, he was on two shows at the same time.
•Fred Thompson represented Tennessee as a US Senator from 1994 to 2003. He was also a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2008.
1.Fred Thompson, with larger-than-life persona, dies at 73
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In 2002, during the final months of his Senate term, Thompson joined the cast of the NBC television series Law & Order, playing conservative District Attorney Arthur Branch, a role that he would ultimately portray for the next five years.
Nov 1, 2015 · Nov 1, 2015 3:12pm PT. Fred Thompson, ‘Law & Order’ Actor and Former Senator, Dies at 73. By Carmel Dagan. REX Shutterstock. Fred Thompson, a former U.S. senator for Tennessee and actor...
November 1, 2015 4:17pm. Fred Thompson, former U.S. senator and longtime actor in the TV series Law & Order has died. Thompson, who died in Nashville after a recurrence of lymphoma, was...
Nov 3, 2015 · November 3, 2015 9:53am. NBC/Photofest. Law & Order executive producers are paying tribute to the show’s late star Fred Thompson, who passed away Sunday at the age of 73. “Fred was one of...
Nov 1, 2015 · By M. Johnson, M. Alex Johnson. Former Sen. Fred Thompson, the Watergate investigator-turned-actor-turned national political figure, died Sunday at 73 from lymphona, with which he had struggled...
