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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

200

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-08-25 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

Tom Skerrit
Thomas Roy Skerritt
Τομ Σκέριτ
汤姆·斯凯里特
톰 스커릿
湯姆·史基瑞
M. Borman
تام اسکریت

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

2025		Broke as Cliff
2025		Alien, Terror in Space as Self - Interviewee

2024

A Look Through His Lens as Self

2021		East of the Mountains as Ben Givens
2021		Catch the Bullet as Dex

2019		The Phantom 52 as The Phantom
2019		Memory: The Origins of Alien as Self

2017		Lucky as Fred
2017		Day of Days as Walter

2016		Journey Back to Christmas as Tobias Cook
2016		The American West as Self
2016		A Hologram for the King as Ron Clay

2015

Field of Lost Shoes as Ulysses S. Grant

2014		Madam Secretary as Patrick McCord
2014		The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway as Narrator (voice)
2014		Wings: Sky Force Heroes as Colonel (voice)

2013		At Middleton as Dr. Roland Emerson
2013		Redwood Highway as Pete Peterson

2012		Ted as Tom Skerritt
2012		Soda Springs as Walt Jackson

2011		Redemption Road as Santa
2011		Your Love Never Fails as Jack Connors
2011		Over Hawaii as Narrator (voice)

2010

Soaring Over America

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
2009		The Velveteen Rabbit as Horse (voice)

2008		Leverage as Jimmy Ford
2008		Beer for My Horses as Sheriff Wilson Landry
2008		Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Gabe Utterson
2008		The Trojan Horse as President Stanfield
2008		Over America

2007		Fallen
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		Bonneville as Emmett L. Johnson
2006		Fallen as Zeke
2006		Desperation as John Edward Marinville
2006		Mammoth as Simon Abernathy

2005		Category 7: The End of the World as Colonel Mike Davis
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
2005		Vinegar Hill as Fritz Grier

2004		Huff
2004		The Grid
2004		Homeland Security as Admiral McKee
2004		Homeland Security as Admiral Theodore McKee

2003		The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
2003		Path to War as William Westmoreland
2003		Swing as George Verdi
2003		Tears of the Sun as Captain Bill Rhodes

2002		The Alien Saga as Self
2002		Greenmail as Tom Bradshaw
2002		The Dead Zone as Herb Smith
2002		Changing Hearts as Johnny Pinkley

2001		Texas Rangers as Richard Dukes
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
2000		Enlisted: The Story of 'MAS*H' as Self
2000		Altman on His Own Terms as Self

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		Smoke Signals as Police Chief
1998		Two for Texas as Sam Houston

1997		What the Deaf Man Heard as Norm Jenkins
1997		Contact as David Drumlin
1997		Divided by Hate as Steve Riordan

1996

E! True Hollywood Story

1994		Chicago Hope
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		Singles as Mayor Weber
1992		Picket Fences as Jimmy Brock
1992		Getting Up and Going Home as Jack Montgomery
1992		Poison Ivy as Darryl Cooper
1992		In Sickness and in Health as Jerritt Mattison
1992		Knight Moves as Frank Sedman

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		Big Man on Campus as Dr. Webster
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		Moving Target as Joseph Kellogg
1988		Honor Bound as Sam Cahill

1987		The Big Town as Phil Carpenter
1987		Maid to Order as Charles Montgomery
1987		Poker Alice as Jeremy Collins

1986		Wisdom as Lloyd Wisdom
1986		Miles to Go… as Stuart Browning
1986		Opposing Force as Logan
1986		The Parent Trap II as Bill Grand
1986		SpaceCamp as Zack
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
1984		Calendar Girl Murders as Lieutenant Dan Stoner

1983		The Hitchhiker as Detective Frank Sheen
1983		The Dead Zone as Sheriff Bannerman
1983		Ryan's Four

1982		A Dangerous Summer as Howard Anderson
1982		Cheers as Evan Drake
1982		Fighting Back as John D'Angelo

1981		Silence of the North as Walter Reamer
1981		Savage Harvest as Casey

1979

Alien as Dallas

1978		Ice Castles as Marcus Winston
1978		Up in Smoke as Strawberry
1978		Maneaters Are Loose! as John Gosford

1977

The Turning Point as Wayne

1976		Origins of the Mafia as Bernardino Campo
1976		Plot of Fear as Chief Inspector
1976		La madama as Jack

1975		The Devil's Rain as Tom Preston
1975		S.W.A.T.
1975		The Last Day as Bill Powers
1975		Baretta

1974		Big Bad Mama as Fred
1974		Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974		Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Robert W. Palmer
1974		The Manhunter
1974		Run, Run, Joe! as Margherito
1974		Thieves Like Us as Dee Mobley
1974		Get Christie Love!

1973

The Birdmen as Orville Fitzgerald

1972

Fuzz as Det. Bert Kling

1971		Harold and Maude as Motorcycle Officer
1971		Nichols as Charley Doyle
1971		Cannon as Bud
1971		Wild Rovers as John Buckman

1970		The Moonshine War as Neighbor (uncredited)
1970		MAS*H as Duke Forrest

1968		Lancer
1968		Hawaii Five-O as Lew Morgan
1968		The Outsider

1967		A Bell for Adano as Sgt. Trapani
1967		Mannix as Morgan Carpenter
1967		Cimarron Strip

1966		Felony Squad
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
1965		Those Calloways as Whit Turner

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
1962		War Hunt as Sgt. Stan Showalter

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

Directing

1997

Divided by Hate as Director

1990

A Question About Sex as Director

1972

ABC Afterschool Special as Director

Production

2021

East of the Mountains as Executive Producer