But he is best known as an actor. Thompson, who is 6 feet 6 inches tall, has appeared in some two dozen movies since 1985, and in the NBC drama "Law and Order," where for five years after leaving the Senate in 2002 he played gruff district attorney Arthur Branch, here with one of his prosecutors, played by Sam Waterston. In May 2007, he left the role, and a month later formed a presidential exploratory committee.
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