Former Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson died Sunday.
The onetime Republican presidential candidate, "Law & Order" star and lawmaker was 73. He had been battling a recurrence of lymphoma.
“It is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of grief that we share the passing of our brother, husband, father, and grandfather who died peacefully in Nashville surrounded by his family,” a statement from the Thompson family on Sunday said.
Thompson’s naturally forceful personality came in handy as an actor. He often played political or military leaders on screen. He was an admiral in “The Hunt for Red October,” President Ulysses S. Grant in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” he was a governor in “Ironmen” and played William Jennings Bryan in Alleged. He was also the FBI director in the TV show “Allegiance.” In the satirical “Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World” Thompson played a gruff and stern Fred Dalton Thompson.
But his best-known role was as Arthur Branch, the New York County District attorney on “Law & Order,” NBC's seemingly never-ending crime procedural.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/fred-dalton-thompson-dies-at-73-215426#ixzz3qHoYuqfQ
The onetime Republican presidential candidate, "Law & Order" star and lawmaker was 73. He had been battling a recurrence of lymphoma.
“It is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of grief that we share the passing of our brother, husband, father, and grandfather who died peacefully in Nashville surrounded by his family,” a statement from the Thompson family on Sunday said.
Thompson’s naturally forceful personality came in handy as an actor. He often played political or military leaders on screen. He was an admiral in “The Hunt for Red October,” President Ulysses S. Grant in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” he was a governor in “Ironmen” and played William Jennings Bryan in Alleged. He was also the FBI director in the TV show “Allegiance.” In the satirical “Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World” Thompson played a gruff and stern Fred Dalton Thompson.
But his best-known role was as Arthur Branch, the New York County District attorney on “Law & Order,” NBC's seemingly never-ending crime procedural.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/fred-dalton-thompson-dies-at-73-215426#ixzz3qHoYuqfQ
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