Tom Skerritt
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Skerritt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Acting History
2025
Broke as Cliff
2025Alien: Terror in Space as Self - Actor
2024A Look Through His Lens as Self
2022Going Home as Vance Baker
2021East of the Mountains as Ben Givens
2021Catch the Bullet as Dex
2019The Phantom 52 as The Phantom
2019Memory: The Origins of Alien as Self
2017Lucky as Fred
2017Day of Days as Walter
2016Journey Back to Christmas as Tobias Cook
2016The American West as Self
2016A Hologram for the King as Ron Clay
2015Field of Lost Shoes as Ulysses S. Grant
2014Madam Secretary as Patrick McCord
2014The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway as Narrator (voice)
2014Wings: Sky Force Heroes as Colonel (voice)
2013At Middleton as Dr. Roland Emerson
2013Redwood Highway as Pete Peterson
2012Ted as Tom Skerritt
2012Soda Springs as Walt Jackson
2011Redemption Road as Santa
2011Your Love Never Fails as Jack Connors
2011Over Hawaii as Narrator (voice)
2010Soaring Over America
2009The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club as Narrator
2009For Sale by Owner as Clive Farrier
2009White Collar as Alan Mitchell
2009Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition as Narrator (voice)
2009The Good Wife as James Paisley
2009Whiteout as Dr. John Fury
2009The Velveteen Rabbit as Horse (voice)
2008Leverage as Jimmy Ford
2008Beer for My Horses as Sheriff Wilson Landry
2008Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Gabe Utterson
2008The Trojan Horse as President Stanfield
2008Over America
2007Fallen
2007Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Self
2007Killer Wave as Victor Bannister
2006Brothers and Sisters as William Walker
2006Bonneville as Emmett L. Johnson
2006Fallen as Zeke
2006Desperation as John Edward Marinville
2006Mammoth as Simon Abernathy
2005Category 7: The End of the World as Colonel Mike Davis
2005Category 7: The End of the World as Colonel Mike Davis
2005The Colbert Report as Viper (archive footage)
2005The Closer as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
2005Vinegar Hill as Fritz Grier
2004Huff
2004The Grid
2004Homeland Security as Admiral McKee
2004Homeland Security as Admiral Theodore McKee
2003The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
2003Path to War as William Westmoreland
2003Swing as George Verdi
2003Tears of the Sun as Captain Bill Rhodes
2002The Alien Saga as Self
2002Greenmail as Tom Bradshaw
2002The Dead Zone as Herb Smith
2002Changing Hearts as Johnny Pinkley
2001Texas Rangers as Richard Dukes
2001History vs. Hollywood as Self
2000Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000High Noon as Will Kane
2000Backstory as Self
2000An American Daughter as Walter
2000Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' as Self
2000Altman on His Own Terms as Self
1999Aftershock: Earthquake in New York as Thomas Ahearn
1999The West Wing as Chris Carrick
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Oliver Taft
1999The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer as Fred Maddux
1999The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer as Fred Maddux
1999Into the Wild Blue as Host
1999The Other Sister as Radley Tate
1998Will & Grace as Dr. Jay Markus
1998Smoke Signals as Police Chief
1998Two for Texas as Sam Houston
1997What the Deaf Man Heard as Norm Jenkins
1997Contact as David Drumlin
1997Divided by Hate as Steve Riordan
1996E! True Hollywood Story
1994Chicago Hope as Jim Kellner
1994Over California in High Definition as Narrator (voice)
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1992A River Runs Through It as Rev. Maclean
1992Picket Fences as Jimmy Brock
1992Singles as Mayor Weber
1992Getting Up and Going Home as Jack Montgomery
1992Poison Ivy as Darryl Cooper
1992In Sickness and in Health as Jerritt Mattison
1992Knight Moves as Frank Sedman
1991Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue as Ham McDonald
1990The Rookie as Eugene Ackerman
1990She'll Take Romance as Judge Warren Danvers
1990A Question About Sex as Jim
1990Child in the Night as Detective Bass
1990The China Lake Murders as Sheriff Sam Brodie
1989Big Man on Campus as Dr. Webster
1989Red King, White Knight as Stoner
1989Steel Magnolias as Drum Eatenton
1989The Heist as Ebbet Berens
1988Poltergeist III as Bruce Gardner
1988Nightmare at Bittercreek as Ding
1988Moving Target as Joseph Kellogg
1988Honor Bound as Sam Cahill
1987The Big Town as Phil Carpenter
1987Maid to Order as Charles Montgomery
1987Poker Alice as Jeremy Collins
1986Wisdom as Lloyd Wisdom
1986Miles to Go… as Stuart Browning
1986Opposing Force as Logan
1986The Parent Trap II as Bill Grand
1986SpaceCamp as Zack
1986Top Gun as Viper
1985Danger Bay as Don Bared
1985The Twilight Zone as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
1984A Touch of Scandal as Father Dwelle
1984Calendar Girl Murders as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
1983The Hitchhiker as Detective Frank Sheen
1983The Dead Zone as Sheriff Bannerman
1983Ryan's Four as Dr. Thomas Ryan
1982A Dangerous Summer as Howard Anderson
1982Cheers as Evan Drake
1982Fighting Back as John D'Angelo
1981Silence of the North as Walter Reamer
1981Savage Harvest as Casey
1979Alien as Dallas
1978Ice Castles as Marcus Winston
1978Up in Smoke as Strawberry
1978Maneaters Are Loose! as John Gosford
1977The Turning Point as Wayne
1976Origins of the Mafia as Bernardino Campo
1976Plot of Fear as Chief Inspector
1976La madama as Jack
1975The Devil's Rain as Tom Preston
1975S.W.A.T.
1975The Last Day as Bill Powers
1975Baretta
1974Big Bad Mama as Fred
1974Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Robert W. Palmer
1974The Manhunter
1974Run, Run, Joe! as Margherito
1974Thieves Like Us as Dee Mobley
1974Get Christie Love!
1973The Birdmen as Orville Fitzgerald
1972Fuzz as Det. Bert Kling
1971Harold and Maude as Motorcycle Officer
1971Nichols as Charley Doyle
1971Cannon as Bud
1971Wild Rovers as John Buckman
1970The Moonshine War as Neighbor (uncredited)
1970M*A*S*H as Duke Forrest
1968Lancer
1968Hawaii Five-O as Lew Morgan
1968The Outsider as Arnie Cambor
1967A Bell for Adano as Sgt. Trapani
1967Mannix as Morgan Carpenter
1967Cimarron Strip as Enoch Shelton
1966Felony Squad
1966The Time Tunnel as Matthew Gebhardt
1965The Further Adventures of Gallegher as Corky Mardis
1965The F.B.I. as Robert Hastings
1965The F.B.I. as John Clarence Rim
1965The F.B.I. as Thorn Hazard
1965The F.B.I. as Bill Leonard
1965Run for Your Life as Lou Patterson
1964Those Calloways as Whit Turner
196412 O'Clock High as Lt. Paddy Gialella
196412 O'Clock High as Lt. Steve Parmalee
1964One Man's Way as Leonard Peale, Grown
1963The Fugitive as Neely Hollister
1963The Fugitive as Pete Edwards
1962Combat! as Hicks
1962Combat! as Burke
1962Combat! as Sgt. Decker
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Frank Farmer
1962The Virginian as Eric Kroeger
1962The Virginian as Rev. Paul Martinson
1962The Virginian as Billy Landers
1962The Virginian as Moran
1962War Hunt as Sgt. Stan Showalter
1959Bonanza as Jerry
1959Bonanza as Corporal Bill Tanner
1957The Real McCoys as Mailman
1957Wagon Train as Hamish Browne
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1955Gunsmoke as Edmund Dano
1955Gunsmoke as Ben Stone
1955Gunsmoke as Orv Timpson
1955Gunsmoke as Fred Garth
1955Gunsmoke as Tuck Frye
1954The Wonderful World of Disney as Corky Mardis
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Norm Jenkins
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self