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Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt

ActingBorn August 25, 1933 (age 92)Detroit, 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.

Filmography

2025
Broke

as Cliff

Movie
2025
Alien: Terror in Space

as Self - Actor

Movie
2024Movie
2022
Going Home

as Vance Baker

TV
2021Movie
2021Movie
2019
The Phantom 52

as The Phantom

Movie
2017
Lucky

as Fred

Movie
2017
Day of Days

as Walter

Movie
2016Movie
2016TV
2016Movie
2015
Field of Lost Shoes

as Ulysses S. Grant

Movie
2014
Madam Secretary

as Patrick McCord

TV
2014Movie
2014
Wings: Sky Force Heroes

as Colonel (voice)

Movie
2013
At Middleton

as Dr. Roland Emerson

Movie
2013
Redwood Highway

as Pete Peterson

Movie
2012
Ted

as Tom Skerritt

Movie
2012
Soda Springs

as Walt Jackson

Movie
2011Movie
2011
Your Love Never Fails

as Jack Connors

Movie
2011
Over Hawaii

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2009
For Sale by Owner

as Clive Farrier

Movie
2009
White Collar

as Alan Mitchell

TV
2009
The Good Wife

as James Paisley

TV
2009
Whiteout

as Dr. John Fury

Movie
2009
The Velveteen Rabbit

as Horse (voice)

Movie
2008
Leverage

as Jimmy Ford

TV
2008
Beer for My Horses

as Sheriff Wilson Landry

Movie
2008
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Gabe Utterson

Movie
2008
The Trojan Horse

as President Stanfield

TV
2007
Fallen

as Zeke

TV
2007
Killer Wave

as Victor Bannister

TV
2006
Brothers and Sisters

as William Walker

TV
2006
Bonneville

as Emmett L. Johnson

Movie
2006
Fallen

as Zeke

Movie
2006
Desperation

as John Edward Marinville

Movie
2006
Mammoth

as Simon Abernathy

Movie
2005TV
2005
The Colbert Report

as Viper (archive footage)

TV
2005
The Closer

as Det. Joey 'O' Olin

TV
2005
Vinegar Hill

as Fritz Grier

Movie
2004TV
2004TV
2004
Homeland Security

as Admiral McKee

Movie
2004
Homeland Security

as Admiral Theodore McKee

TV
2003
Path to War

as William Westmoreland

Movie
2003
Swing

as George Verdi

Movie
2003
Tears of the Sun

as Captain Bill Rhodes

Movie
2002Movie
2002
Greenmail

as Tom Bradshaw

Movie
2002
The Dead Zone

as Herb Smith

TV
2002
Changing Hearts

as Johnny Pinkley

Movie
2001
Texas Rangers

as Richard Dukes

Movie
2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy

TV
2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy

Movie
2000
High Noon

as Will Kane

Movie
2000
Backstory

as Self

TV
2000Movie
2000Movie
1999
The West Wing

as Chris Carrick

TV
1999Movie
1999Movie
1999
The Other Sister

as Radley Tate

Movie
1998
Will & Grace

as Dr. Jay Markus

TV
1998
Smoke Signals

as Police Chief

Movie
1998
Two for Texas

as Sam Houston

Movie
1997Movie
1997
Contact

as David Drumlin

Movie
1997
Divided by Hate

as Steve Riordan

Movie
1995Movie
1994
Chicago Hope

as Jim Kellner

TV
1994
Over California

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1993TV
1992Movie
1992
Singles

as Mayor Weber

Movie
1992
Picket Fences

as Jimmy Brock

TV
1992
Getting Up and Going Home

as Jack Montgomery

Movie
1992
Poison Ivy

as Darryl Cooper

Movie
1992
In Sickness and in Health

as Jerritt Mattison

Movie
1992
Knight Moves

as Frank Sedman

Movie
1991Movie
1990
The Rookie

as Eugene Ackerman

Movie
1990
She'll Take Romance

as Judge Warren Danvers

Movie
1990Movie
1990
Child in the Night

as Detective Bass

Movie
1990
The China Lake Murders

as Sheriff Sam Brodie

Movie
1989
Big Man on Campus

as Dr. Webster

Movie
1989Movie
1989
Steel Magnolias

as Drum Eatenton

Movie
1989
The Heist

as Ebbet Berens

Movie
1988
Poltergeist III

as Bruce Gardner

Movie
1988Movie
1988
Moving Target

as Joseph Kellogg

Movie
1988
Honor Bound

as Sam Cahill

Movie
1987
The Big Town

as Phil Carpenter

Movie
1987
Maid to Order

as Charles Montgomery

Movie
1987
Poker Alice

as Jeremy Collins

Movie
1986
Wisdom

as Lloyd Wisdom

Movie
1986
Miles to Go…

as Stuart Browning

Movie
1986Movie
1986
The Parent Trap II

as Bill Grand

Movie
1986
SpaceCamp

as Zack

Movie
1986
Top Gun

as Viper

Movie
1985
Danger Bay

as Don Bared

TV
1985
The Twilight Zone

as (segment "What Are Friends For?")

TV
1984
A Touch of Scandal

as Father Dwelle

Movie
1984
Calendar Girl Murders

as Lieutenant Dan Stoner

Movie
1983
The Hitchhiker

as Detective Frank Sheen

TV
1983
The Dead Zone

as Sheriff Bannerman

Movie
1983
Ryan's Four

as Dr. Thomas Ryan

TV
1982
A Dangerous Summer

as Howard Anderson

Movie
1982
Cheers

as Evan Drake

TV
1982
Fighting Back

as John D'Angelo

Movie
1981
Silence of the North

as Walter Reamer

Movie
1981Movie
1979
Alien

as Dallas

Movie
1978
Ice Castles

as Marcus Winston

Movie
1978
Up in Smoke

as Strawberry

Movie
1978
Maneaters Are Loose!

as John Gosford

Movie
1977Movie
1976
Origins of the Mafia

as Bernardino Campo

TV
1976
Plot of Fear

as Chief Inspector

Movie
1976
La madama

as Jack

Movie
1975
The Devil’s Rain

as Tom Preston

Movie
1975TV
1975
The Last Day

as Bill Powers

Movie
1975TV
1974Movie
1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

as Robert W. Palmer

TV
1974
Run, Run, Joe!

as Margherito

Movie
1974
Thieves Like Us

as Dee Mobley

Movie
1973
The Birdmen

as Orville Fitzgerald

Movie
1972
Fuzz

as Det. Bert Kling

Movie
1971
Harold and Maude

as Motorcycle Officer

Movie
1971
Nichols

as Charley Doyle

TV
1971
Cannon

as Bud

TV
1971
Wild Rovers

as John Buckman

Movie
1970
The Moonshine War

as Neighbor (uncredited)

Movie
1970
M*A*S*H

as Duke Forrest

Movie
1968TV
1968
Hawaii Five-O

as Lew Morgan

TV
1968
The Outsider

as Arnie Cambor

TV
1967
A Bell for Adano

as Sgt. Trapani

Movie
1967
Mannix

as Morgan Carpenter

TV
1967
Cimarron Strip

as Enoch Shelton

TV
1966
The Time Tunnel

as Matthew Gebhardt

TV
1965Movie
1965
The F.B.I.

as Robert Hastings

TV
1965
The F.B.I.

as John Clarence Rim

TV
1965
The F.B.I.

as Thorn Hazard

TV
1965
The F.B.I.

as Bill Leonard

TV
1965
Run for Your Life

as Lou Patterson

TV
1964
Those Calloways

as Whit Turner

Movie
1964
12 O'Clock High

as Lt. Paddy Gialella

TV
1964
12 O'Clock High

as Lt. Steve Parmalee

TV
1964
One Man's Way

as Leonard Peale, Grown

Movie
1963
The Fugitive

as Neely Hollister

TV
1963
The Fugitive

as Pete Edwards

TV
1962
Combat!

as Hicks

TV
1962
Combat!

as Burke

TV
1962
Combat!

as Sgt. Decker

TV
1962TV
1962
The Virginian

as Eric Kroeger

TV
1962
The Virginian

as Rev. Paul Martinson

TV
1962
The Virginian

as Billy Landers

TV
1962TV
1962
War Hunt

as Sgt. Stan Showalter

Movie
1959
Bonanza

as Jerry

TV
1959
Bonanza

as Corporal Bill Tanner

TV
1957
The Real McCoys

as Mailman

TV
1957
Wagon Train

as Hamish Browne

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV
1955
Gunsmoke

as Edmund Dano

TV
1955
Gunsmoke

as Ben Stone

TV
1955
Gunsmoke

as Orv Timpson

TV
1955
Gunsmoke

as Fred Garth

TV
1955
Gunsmoke

as Tuck Frye

TV
1954TV
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Norm Jenkins

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV
1944TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayAugust 25, 1933
Place of BirthDetroit, Michigan, USA
Popularity2.2