Tom Skerritt
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Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Broke
2025
as Cliff
Alien: Terror in Space
2025
as Self - Actor
A Look Through His Lens
2024
as Self
Going Home
2022
as Vance Baker
East of the Mountains
2021
as Ben Givens
Catch the Bullet
2021
as Dex
The Phantom 52
2019
as The Phantom
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
as Self
Lucky
2017
as Fred
Day of Days
2017
as Walter
A Hologram for the King
2016
as Ron Clay
Journey Back to Christmas
2016
as Tobias Cook
The American West
2016
as Self
Field of Lost Shoes
2015
as Ulysses S. Grant
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
2014
as Colonel (voice)
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014
as Narrator (voice)
Madam Secretary
2014
as Patrick McCord
At Middleton
2013
as Dr. Roland Emerson
Redwood Highway
2013
as Pete Peterson
Ted
2012
as Tom Skerritt
Soda Springs
2012
as Walt Jackson
Redemption Road
2011
as Santa
Over Hawaii
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Your Love Never Fails
2011
as Jack Connors
Soaring Over America
2010
Whiteout
2009
as Dr. John Fury
For Sale by Owner
2009
as Clive Farrier
The Velveteen Rabbit
2009
as Horse (voice)
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009
as Narrator (voice)
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009
as Narrator
White Collar
2009
as Alan Mitchell
The Good Wife
2009
as James Paisley
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008
as Gabe Utterson
Beer for My Horses
2008
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
Over America
2008
The Trojan Horse
2008
as President Stanfield
Leverage
2008
as Jimmy Ford
Fallen
2007
as Zeke
Killer Wave
2007
as Victor Bannister
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007
as Self
Desperation
2006
as John Edward Marinville
Mammoth
2006
as Simon Abernathy
Bonneville
2006
as Emmett L. Johnson
Fallen
2006
as Zeke
Brothers and Sisters
2006
as William Walker
Vinegar Hill
2005
as Fritz Grier
Category 7: The End of the World
2005
as Colonel Mike Davis
The Colbert Report
2005
as Viper (archive footage)
Category 7: The End of the World
2005
as Colonel Mike Davis
The Closer
2005
as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
Homeland Security
2004
as Admiral McKee
Huff
2004
The Grid
2004
Homeland Security
2004
as Admiral Theodore McKee
Path to War
2003
as William Westmoreland
Tears of the Sun
2003
as Captain Bill Rhodes
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as Self
Swing
2003
as George Verdi
Changing Hearts
2002
as Johnny Pinkley
Greenmail
2002
as Tom Bradshaw
The Alien Saga
2002
as Self
The Dead Zone
2002
as Herb Smith
Texas Rangers
2001
as Richard Dukes
History vs. Hollywood
2001
as Self
High Noon
2000
as Will Kane
An American Daughter
2000
as Walter
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000
as Self
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
Altman on His Own Terms
2000
as Self
Backstory
2000
as Self
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
The Other Sister
1999
as Radley Tate
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
as Fred Maddux
Into the Wild Blue
1999
as Host
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Oliver Taft
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
1999
as Thomas Ahearn
The West Wing
1999
as Chris Carrick
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
as Fred Maddux
Two for Texas
1998
as Sam Houston
Smoke Signals
1998
as Police Chief
Will & Grace
1998
as Dr. Jay Markus
Contact
1997
as David Drumlin
Divided by Hate
1997
as Steve Riordan
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
as Norm Jenkins
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Over California in High Definition
1994
as Narrator (voice)
Chicago Hope
1994
as Jim Kellner
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
A River Runs Through It
1992
as Rev. Maclean
Singles
1992
as Mayor Weber
Knight Moves
1992
as Frank Sedman
Poison Ivy
1992
as Darryl Cooper
Getting Up and Going Home
1992
as Jack Montgomery
In Sickness and in Health
1992
as Jerritt Mattison
Picket Fences
1992
as Jimmy Brock
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991
as Ham McDonald
The Rookie
1990
as Eugene Ackerman
Child in the Night
1990
as Detective Bass
The China Lake Murders
1990
as Sheriff Sam Brodie
She'll Take Romance
1990
as Judge Warren Danvers
A Question About Sex
1990
as Jim
Steel Magnolias
1989
as Drum Eatenton
The Heist
1989
as Ebbet Berens
Big Man on Campus
1989
as Dr. Webster
Red King, White Knight
1989
as Stoner
Poltergeist III
1988
as Bruce Gardner
Nightmare at Bittercreek
1988
as Ding
Moving Target
1988
as Joseph Kellogg
Honor Bound
1988
as Sam Cahill
Maid to Order
1987
as Charles Montgomery
Poker Alice
1987
as Jeremy Collins
The Big Town
1987
as Phil Carpenter
Top Gun
1986
as Viper
Opposing Force
1986
as Logan
SpaceCamp
1986
as Zack
Wisdom
1986
as Lloyd Wisdom
The Parent Trap II
1986
as Bill Grand
Miles to Go…
1986
as Stuart Browning
The Twilight Zone
1985
as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
Danger Bay
1985
as Don Bared
Calendar Girl Murders
1984
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
A Touch of Scandal
1984
as Father Dwelle
The Dead Zone
1983
as Sheriff Bannerman
The Hitchhiker
1983
as Detective Frank Sheen
Ryan's Four
1983
as Dr. Thomas Ryan
Fighting Back
1982
as John D'Angelo
A Dangerous Summer
1982
as Howard Anderson
Cheers
1982
as Evan Drake
Savage Harvest
1981
as Casey
Silence of the North
1981
as Walter Reamer
Alien
1979
as Dallas
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
as John Gosford
Ice Castles
1978
as Marcus Winston
Up in Smoke
1978
as Strawberry
The Turning Point
1977
as Wayne
Plot of Fear
1976
as Chief Inspector
La madama
1976
as Jack
Origins of the Mafia
1976
as Bernardino Campo
The Devil’s Rain
1975
as Tom Preston
The Last Day
1975
as Bill Powers
Baretta
1975
S.W.A.T.
1975
Thieves Like Us
1974
as Dee Mobley
Big Bad Mama
1974
as Fred
Run, Run, Joe!
1974
as Margherito
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
The Manhunter
1974
Get Christie Love!
1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
as Robert W. Palmer
The Birdmen
1973
as Orville Fitzgerald
Fuzz
1972
as Det. Bert Kling
Wild Rovers
1971
as John Buckman
Harold and Maude
1971
as Motorcycle Officer
Cannon
1971
as Bud
Nichols
1971
as Charley Doyle
M*A*S*H
1970
as Duke Forrest
The Moonshine War
1970
as Neighbor (uncredited)
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Lew Morgan
Lancer
1968
The Outsider
1968
as Arnie Cambor
A Bell for Adano
1967
as Sgt. Trapani
Mannix
1967
as Morgan Carpenter
Cimarron Strip
1967
as Enoch Shelton
The Time Tunnel
1966
as Matthew Gebhardt
Felony Squad
1966
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965
as Corky Mardis
The F.B.I.
1965
as Robert Hastings
Run for Your Life
1965
as Lou Patterson
The F.B.I.
1965
as John Clarence Rim
The F.B.I.
1965
as Thorn Hazard
The F.B.I.
1965
as Bill Leonard
One Man's Way
1964
as Leonard Peale, Grown
Those Calloways
1964
as Whit Turner
12 O'Clock High
1964
as Lt. Paddy Gialella
12 O'Clock High
1964
as Lt. Steve Parmalee
The Fugitive
1963
as Neely Hollister
The Fugitive
1963
as Pete Edwards
War Hunt
1962
as Sgt. Stan Showalter
Combat!
1962
as Hicks
The Virginian
1962
as Eric Kroeger
Combat!
1962
as Burke
Combat!
1962
as Sgt. Decker
The Virginian
1962
as Rev. Paul Martinson
The Virginian
1962
as Billy Landers
The Virginian
1962
as Moran
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Frank Farmer
Bonanza
1959
as Jerry
Bonanza
1959
as Corporal Bill Tanner
Wagon Train
1957
as Hamish Browne
The Real McCoys
1957
as Mailman
Gunsmoke
1955
as Edmund Dano
Gunsmoke
1955
as Ben Stone
Gunsmoke
1955
as Orv Timpson
Gunsmoke
1955
as Fred Garth
Gunsmoke
1955
as Tuck Frye
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Corky Mardis
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Norm Jenkins
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self