Fred Thompson returning to acting?

After a failed run for president, Fred Thompson is apparently going back to his first ‘pretending’ job as an actor.  Thompson dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Jan. 22.  And now he’s leaving the low-paying political part of show business and reentering the high-paid end, the one on a screen of some sort.

Hollywood’s high-powered William Morris Agency announced this week that it has signed the actor/politician, signaling a return to the screen for the former senator from Tennessee.

Thompson most recently appeared as district attorney Arthur Branch on “Law & Order” and has played authority figures in the films “The Hunt For Red October,” “Die Hard II” and “In the Line of Fire.”

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