Biographies: Fred Thompson - Actor

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Fred Thompson was an American politician, actor, lobbyist, and attorney. He was born on August 19, 1942, in Sheffield, Alabama, and raised in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Memphis with a double major in philosophy and political science in 1964, and in 1967, he was awarded a scholarship to study law at Vanderbilt University Law School. He began his career as a lawyer in Tennessee's courts, but in 1973 he moved to work as a legal advisor to the minority counsel to assist the Republican senators on the Senate Watergate Committee that investigated the Watergate scandal. Additionally, he served as the chairman of the U.S. Department of State's International Security Advisory Board, a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a councilor for foreign relations, and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute with a focus on national security and intelligence. In the latter months of his 2002 term in the U.S. Senate, he joined the cast of Law & Order (2002-2007). As an actor, he is known for The Hunt for Red October (1990), No Way Out (1987), and Baby's Day Out (1994). He passed away on November 1, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

• 27 September 2022
• Salma El-Sharkawy