Tom Skerritt
- Acting
- August 25, 1933 · 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Broke · Cliff
- Alien: Terror in Space · Self
- A Look Through His Lens · Self
- Going Home · Vance Baker
- East of the Mountains · Ben Givens, Executive producer
- Catch the Bullet · Dex
- The Phantom 52 · The Phantom
- Memory: The Origins of Alien · Self
- Lucky · Fred
- Day of Days · Walter
- Journey Back to Christmas · Tobias Cook
- The American West · Self
- A Hologram for the King · Ron Clay
- Field of Lost Shoes · Ulysses S. Grant
- Madam Secretary · Patrick McCord
- The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway · Narrator (Voice)
- Wings: Sky Force Heroes · Colonel (Voice)
- At Middleton · Roland Emerson
- Redwood Highway · Pete Peterson
- Ted · Tom Skerritt
- Soda Springs · Walt Jackson
- Redemption Road · Santa
- Your Love Never Fails · Jack Connors
- Over Hawaii · Narrator (Voice)
- Soaring Over America
- The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club · Narrator
- For Sale by Owner · Clive Farrier
- White Collar · Alan Mitchell
- Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition · Narrator (Voice)
- The Good Wife · James Paisley
- Whiteout · Dr. John Fury
- The Velveteen Rabbit · Horse (Voice)
- Leverage · Jimmy Ford
- Beer for My Horses · Sheriff Wilson Landry
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · Gabe Utterson
- The Trojan Horse · President Stanfield
- Fallen · Zeke
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! · Self
- Killer Wave · Victor Bannister
- Brothers and Sisters · William Walker
- Bonneville · Emmett L. Johnson
- Fallen · Zeke
- Desperation · John Edward Marinville
- Mammoth · Simon Abernathy
- Category 7: The End of the World · Colonel Mike Davis
- The Closer · Det. Joey 'O' Olin
- Vinegar Hill · Fritz Grier
- Huff
- The Grid
- Homeland Security · Admiral McKee
- Homeland Security · Admiral Theodore McKee
- The Beast Within: Making Alien · Self
- Path to War · William Westmoreland
- Swing · George Verdi
- Tears of the Sun · Captain Bill Rhodes
- The Alien Saga · Self
- Greenmail · Tom Bradshaw
- The Dead Zone · Herb Smith
- Changing Hearts · Johnny Pinkley
- Texas Rangers · Richard Dukes
- History vs. Hollywood · Self
- Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis · Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
- Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis · Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
- High Noon · Will Kane
- Backstory · Self
- An American Daughter · Walter
- Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' · Self
- Altman on His Own Terms · Self
- Aftershock: Earthquake in New York · Thomas Ahearn
- The West Wing · Chris Carrick
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Oliver Taft
- The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer · Fred Maddux
- The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer · Fred Maddux
- Into the Wild Blue · Host
- The Other Sister · Radley Tate
- Will & Grace · Dr. Jay Markus
- Smoke Signals · Police Chief
- Two for Texas · Sam Houston
- What the Deaf Man Heard · Norm Jenkins
- Contact · David Drumlin