Floyd James Thompson

Acting

Birthday

1933/07/08

Day of death

2002/07/16 (69 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States

Also know as

Jim Thompson, Major Floyd Thompson, Floyd Thompson

Biography

Floyd James "Jim" Thompson was a United States Army colonel. He was the longest-held American prisoner of war in U.S. history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in the jungle camps and mountains of South Vietnam and Laos, and in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Acting
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(1973) Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective)

as Self