
Tom Skerritt
August 25, 1933 (91 years old) in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. He is known for his film roles in M*A*S*H, Alien, The Dead Zone, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, Up in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences. Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Skerritt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Alien, Terror in Space as Self - Interviewee
- 2024 · A Look Through His Lens as Self
- 2021 · Catch the Bullet as Dex
- 2019 · Memory: The Origins of Alien as Self
- 2016 · Journey Back to Christmas as Tobias Cook
- 2015 · Field of Lost Shoes as Ulysses S. Grant
- 2014 · Wings: Sky Force Heroes as Colonel (voice)
- 2013 · At Middleton as Dr. Roland Emerson
- 2011 · Your Love Never Fails as Jack Connors
- 2009 · The Velveteen Rabbit as Horse (voice)
- 2008 · Beer for My Horses as Sheriff Wilson Landry
- 2008 · Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Gabe Utterson
- 2008 · Over America as
- 2006 · Bonneville as Emmett L. Johnson
- 2006 · Desperation as John Edward Marinville
- 2006 · Mammoth as Simon Abernathy
- 2005 · Category 7: The End of the World as Colonel Mike Davis
- 2005 · Vinegar Hill as Fritz Grier
- 2004 · The Grid as
- 2004 · Homeland Security as Admiral Theodore McKee
- 2003 · Path to War as William Westmoreland
- 2002 · Greenmail as Tom Bradshaw
- 2002 · Changing Hearts as Johnny Pinkley
- 2001 · Texas Rangers as Richard Dukes
- 2000 · Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' as Self
- 2000 · Altman on His Own Terms as Self
- 1998 · Smoke Signals as Police Chief
- 1997 · What the Deaf Man Heard as Norm Jenkins
- 1992 · Getting Up and Going Home as Jack Montgomery
- 1992 · Knight Moves as Frank Sedman
- 1989 · Big Man on Campus as Dr. Webster
- 1988 · Moving Target as Joseph Kellogg
- 1987 · The Big Town as Phil Carpenter
- 1987 · Maid to Order as Charles Montgomery
- 1986 · Wisdom as Lloyd Wisdom
- 1986 · Opposing Force as Logan
- 1986 · The Parent Trap II as Bill Grand
- 1986 · SpaceCamp as Zack
- 1984 · Calendar Girl Murders as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
- 1982 · Fighting Back as John D'Angelo
- 1981 · Savage Harvest as Casey
- 1978 · Ice Castles as Marcus Winston
- 1977 · The Turning Point as Wayne
- 1976 · Plot of Fear as Chief Inspector
- 1975 · The Devil's Rain as Tom Preston
- 1974 · Thieves Like Us as Dee Mobley
- 1972 · Fuzz as Det. Bert Kling
- 1971 · Wild Rovers as John Buckman
- 1970 · The Moonshine War as Neighbor (uncredited)
- 1965 · Those Calloways as Whit Turner
- 1962 · War Hunt as Sgt. Stan Showalter
- Future · Broke as
- 2021 · East of the Mountains as Ben Givens
- 2019 · The Phantom 52 as The Phantom
- 2017 · Lucky as Fred
- 2017 · Day of Days as Walter
- 2016 · The American West as Self
- 2016 · A Hologram for the King as Ron Clay
- 2014 · The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Redwood Highway as Pete Peterson
- 2012 · Ted as Tom Skerritt
- 2012 · Soda Springs as Walt Jackson
- 2011 · Redemption Road as Santa
- 2011 · Over Hawaii as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Soaring Over America as
- 2009 · The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club as Narrator
- 2009 · For Sale By Owner as Clive Farrier
- 2009 · White Collar as Alan Mitchell
- 2009 · Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · The Good Wife as James Paisley
- 2009 · Whiteout as Dr. John Fury
- 2008 · Leverage as Jimmy Ford
- 2008 · The Trojan Horse as President Stanfield
- 2007 · Fallen as
- 2007 · Killer Wave as Victor Bannister
- 2007 · Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Self
- 2007 · Killer Wave as Victor Bannister
- 2006 · Brothers and Sisters as William Walker
- 2006 · Fallen as Zeke
- 2005 · Category 7: The End of the World as Colonel Mike Davis
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as Viper (archive footage)
- 2005 · The Closer as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
- 2004 · Huff as
- 2004 · Homeland Security as Admiral McKee
- 2003 · The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
- 2003 · Swing as George Verdi
- 2003 · Tears of the Sun as Captain Bill Rhodes
- 2002 · The Alien Saga as Self
- 2002 · The Dead Zone as Herb Smith
- 2001 · History vs. Hollywood as Self
- 2000 · Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
- 2000 · High Noon as Will Kane
- 2000 · Backstory as Self
- 2000 · An American Daughter as Walter
- 1999 · Aftershock: Earthquake in New York as Thomas Ahearn
- 1999 · The West Wing as Senator Chris Carrick
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Oliver Taft
- 1999 · The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer as Fred Maddux
- 1999 · The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer as Fred Maddux
- 1999 · Into the Wild Blue as Host
- 1999 · The Other Sister as Radley Tate
- 1998 · Will & Grace as Dr. Jay Markus
- 1998 · Two for Texas as Sam Houston
- 1997 · Contact as David Drumlin
- 1997 · Divided by Hate as Steve Riordan
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1994 · Chicago Hope as
- 1994 · Over California in High Definition as Narrator (voice)
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · A River Runs Through It as Rev. Maclean
- 1992 · Picket Fences as Jimmy Brock
- 1992 · Singles as Mayor Weber
- 1992 · Poison Ivy as Darryl Cooper
- 1992 · In Sickness and in Health as Jerritt Mattison
- 1991 · Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue as Ham McDonald
- 1990 · The Rookie as Eugene Ackerman
- 1990 · She'll Take Romance as Judge Warren Danvers
- 1990 · A Question About Sex as Jim
- 1990 · Child in the Night as Detective Bass
- 1990 · The China Lake Murders as Sheriff Sam Brodie
- 1989 · Red King, White Knight as Stoner
- 1989 · Steel Magnolias as Drum Eatenton
- 1989 · The Heist as Ebbet Berens
- 1988 · Poltergeist III as Bruce Gardner
- 1988 · Nightmare at Bittercreek as Ding
- 1988 · Honor Bound as Sam Cahill
- 1987 · Poker Alice as Jeremy Collins
- 1986 · Miles to Go… as Stuart Browning
- 1986 · Top Gun as Viper
- 1985 · Danger Bay as Don Bared
- 1985 · The Twilight Zone as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
- 1984 · A Touch of Scandal as Father Dwelle
- 1983 · The Hitchhiker as Detective Frank Sheen
- 1983 · The Dead Zone as Sheriff Bannerman
- 1983 · Ryan's Four as
- 1982 · A Dangerous Summer as Howard Anderson
- 1982 · Cheers as Evan Drake
- 1981 · Silence of the North as Walter Reamer
- 1979 · Alien as Dallas
- 1978 · Up in Smoke as Strawberry
- 1978 · Maneaters Are Loose! as John Gosford
- 1976 · Origins of the Mafia as Bernardino Campo
- 1976 · La madama as Jack
- 1975 · S.W.A.T. as
- 1975 · The Last Day as Bill Powers
- 1975 · Baretta as
- 1974 · Big Bad Mama as Fred
- 1974 · Kolchak: The Night Stalker as
- 1974 · Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Robert W. Palmer
- 1974 · The Manhunter as
- 1974 · Run, Run, Joe! as Margherito
- 1974 · Get Christie Love! as
- 1973 · The Birdmen as Orville Fitzgerald
- 1971 · Harold and Maude as Motorcycle Officer
- 1971 · Nichols as Charley Doyle
- 1971 · Cannon as Bud
- 1970 · M*A*S*H as Duke Forrest
- 1968 · Lancer as
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Lew Morgan
- 1968 · The Outsider as
- 1967 · A Bell for Adano as Sgt. Trapani
- 1967 · Mannix as Morgan Carpenter
- 1967 · Cimarron Strip as
- 1966 · Felony Squad as
- 1966 · The Time Tunnel as Matthew Gebhardt
- 1965 · The Further Adventures of Gallegher as Corky Mardis
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Robert Hastings
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as John Clarence Rim
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Thorn Hazard
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Bill Leonard
- 1965 · Run for Your Life as Lou Patterson
- 1964 · 12 O'Clock High as Lt. Paddy Gialella
- 1964 · 12 O'Clock High as Lt. Steve Parmalee
- 1964 · One Man's Way as Leonard Peale, Grown
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Neely Hollister
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Pete Edwards
- 1962 · Combat! as Hicks
- 1962 · Combat! as Burke
- 1962 · Combat! as Sgt. Decker
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1962 · The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Frank Farmer
- 1962 · The Virginian as Eric Kroeger
- 1962 · The Virginian as Rev. Paul Martinson
- 1962 · The Virginian as Billy Landers
- 1962 · The Virginian as Moran
- 1959 · Bonanza as Jerry
- 1959 · Bonanza as Corporal Bill Tanner
- 1957 · The Real McCoys as Mailman
- 1957 · Wagon Train as Hamish Browne
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Edmund Dano
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Ben Stone
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Orv Timpson
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Fred Garth
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Tuck Frye
- 1954 · The Wonderful World of Disney as Corky Mardis
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Norm Jenkins
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter