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Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt

Acting1933Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

Acting History

2025
Alien: Terror in Space
as Self - Actor
Broke
as Cliff
2024
2021
East of the Mountains
Executive Producer
2019
The Phantom 52
as The Phantom
2017
Lucky
as Fred
Day of Days
as Walter
2016
2015
Battlefield of Lost Souls
as Ulysses S. Grant
Madam Secretary
TVas Patrick McCord• 1 eps
2014
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Colonel (voice)
The Good Wife
TVas James Paisley• 2 eps
2013
Redwood Highway
as Pete Peterson
At Middleton
as Dr. Roland Emerson
2012
Soda Springs
as Walt Jackson
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
White Collar
TVas Alan Mitchell• 1 eps
2011
A Valentine's Date
as Jack Connors
Over Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
2010
Leverage
TVas Jimmy Ford• 2 eps
2009
For Sale by Owner
as Clive Farrier
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Horse (voice)
The Closer
TVas Det. Joey 'O' Olin• 1 eps
2008
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Gabe Utterson
Beer for My Horses
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
The Trojan Horse
TVas President Stanfield
2007
The Dead Zone
TVas Herb Smith• 1 eps
Fallen
TVas Zeke• 1 eps
Killer Wave
TVas Victor Bannister
2006
Desperation
as John Edward Marinville
Fallen
as Zeke
Mammoth
as Simon Abernathy
Bonneville
as Emmett L. Johnson
Brothers and Sisters
TVas William Walker• 6 eps
Tony Awards
TVas Self - Presenter• 1 eps
2005
Vinegar Hill
as Fritz Grier
Category 7: The End of the World
TVas Colonel Mike Davis
The Colbert Report
TVas Viper (archive footage)
2004
Homeland Security
as Admiral McKee
Homeland Security
TVas Admiral Theodore McKee
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TVas Oliver Taft• 1 eps
2003
Tears of the Sun
as Captain Bill Rhodes
Path to War
as William Westmoreland
Swing
as George Verdi
The West Wing
TVas Chris Carrick• 1 eps
2002
Changing Hearts
as Johnny Pinkley
Greenmail
as Tom Bradshaw
Will & Grace
TVas Dr. Jay Markus• 1 eps
2001
Texas Rangers
as Richard Dukes
2000
High Noon
as Will Kane
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
Backstory
TVas Self
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
TVas Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
1999
The Other Sister
as Radley Tate
1998
Smoke Signals
as Police Chief
Two for Texas
as Sam Houston
1997
Contact
as David Drumlin
Divided by Hate
as Steve Riordan
Chicago Hope
TVas Jim Kellner• 1 eps
1996
1994
1993
Golden Globe Awards
TVas Self• 1 eps
1992
In Sickness and in Health
as Jerritt Mattison
Singles
as Mayor Weber
Getting Up and Going Home
as Jack Montgomery
Knight Moves
as Frank Sedman
Poison Ivy
as Darryl Cooper
Picket Fences
TVas Jimmy Brock• 88 eps
1991
1990
Child in the Night
as Detective Bass
The China Lake Murders
as Sheriff Sam Brodie
The Rookie
as Eugene Ackerman
She'll Take Romance
as Judge Warren Danvers
1989
The Heist
as Ebbet Berens
Steel Magnolias
as Drum Eatenton
Big Man on Campus
as Dr. Webster
1988
Poltergeist III
as Bruce Gardner
Moving Target
as Joseph Kellogg
Honor Bound
as Sam Cahill
1987
The Big Town
as Phil Carpenter
Maid to Order
as Charles Montgomery
Poker Alice
as Jeremy Collins
Cheers
TVas Evan Drake• 6 eps
1986
SpaceCamp
as Zack
The Parent Trap II
as Bill Grand
Wisdom
as Lloyd Wisdom
Top Gun
as Viper
Miles to Go…
as Stuart Browning
Danger Bay
TVas Don Bared• 1 eps
The Twilight Zone
TVas (segment "What Are Friends For?")• 1 eps
The Hitchhiker
TVas Detective Frank Sheen• 1 eps
1984
The Calendar Girl Murders
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
A Touch of Scandal
as Father Dwelle
1983
The Dead Zone
as Sheriff Bannerman
Ryan's Four
TVas Dr. Thomas Ryan
1982
Fighting Back
as John D'Angelo
A Dangerous Summer
as Howard Anderson
1981
Silence of the North
as Walter Reamer
1979
Alien
as Dallas
1978
Ice Castles
as Marcus Winston
Up in Smoke
as Strawberry
Maneaters Are Loose!
as John Gosford
1977
1976
Plot of Fear
as Chief Inspector
La madama
as Jack
Origins of the Mafia
TVas Bernardino Campo
1975
The Last Day
as Bill Powers
The Devil's Rain
as Tom Preston
1974
Run, Run, Joe!
as Margherito
Thieves Like Us
as Dee Mobley
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TVas Robert W. Palmer• 1 eps
1973
The Birdmen
as Orville Fitzgerald
Bonanza
TVas Jerry / Corporal Bill Tanner• 1 eps
1972
Fuzz
as Det. Bert Kling
The F.B.I.
TVas Bill Leonard• 1 eps
Gunsmoke
TVas Tuck Frye• 1 eps
1971
Harold and Maude
as Motorcycle Officer
Wild Rovers
as John Buckman
Cannon
TVas Bud• 3 eps
Nichols
TVas Charley Doyle• 1 eps
1970
The Moonshine War
as Neighbor (uncredited)
M*A*S*H
as Duke Forrest
Hawaii Five-O
TVas Lew Morgan• 1 eps
1969
The Outsider
TVas Arnie Cambor• 1 eps
1968
The Virginian
TVas Moran / Billy Landers / Rev. Paul Martinson / Eric Kroeger• 1 eps
Run for Your Life
TVas Lou Patterson• 1 eps
1967
A Bell for Adano
as Sgt. Trapani
Mannix
TVas Morgan Carpenter• 1 eps
Combat!
TVas Sgt. Decker• 1 eps
Cimarron Strip
TVas Enoch Shelton
1966
The Time Tunnel
TVas Matthew Gebhardt• 1 eps
The Fugitive
TVas Pete Edwards• 1 eps
1965
12 O'Clock High
TVas Lt. Steve Parmalee• 1 eps
1964
Those Calloways
as Whit Turner
One Man's Way
as Leonard Peale, Grown
Wagon Train
TVas Hamish Browne• 1 eps
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TVas Frank Farmer• 1 eps
The Real McCoys
TVas Mailman• 1 eps
1962
War Hunt
as Sgt. Stan Showalter
1954
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TVas Norm Jenkins

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
8/25/1933(92 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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