Tom Skerritt

Personal Info

Birthday

August 25, 1933

(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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Bonanza

The Colbert Report

The Good Wife

Cheers

White Collar

The West Wing

Combat!

Filmography

2025
Broke
as Cliff
Alien, Terror in Space
as Self - Interviewee
2024
A Look Through His Lens
as Self
2021
East of the Mountains
as Ben Givens
Catch the Bullet
as Dex
2019
The Phantom 52
as The Phantom
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
2017
Lucky
as Fred
Day of Days
as Walter
2016
Journey Back to Christmas
as Tobias Cook
A Hologram for the King
as Ron Clay
2015
Field of Lost Shoes
as Ulysses S. Grant
2014
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
as Narrator (voice)
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Colonel (voice)
2013
At Middleton
as Dr. Roland Emerson
Redwood Highway
as Pete Peterson
2012
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
Soda Springs
as Walt Jackson
2011
Redemption Road
as Santa
Your Love Never Fails
as Jack Connors
Over Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
2009
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
as Narrator
For Sale By Owner
as Clive Farrier
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
as Narrator (voice)
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Horse (voice)
2008
Beer for My Horses
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Gabe Utterson
2006
Bonneville
as Emmett L. Johnson
Fallen
as Zeke
Desperation
as John Edward Marinville
Mammoth
as Simon Abernathy
2005
Vinegar Hill
as Fritz Grier
2003
The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self
Path to War
as William Westmoreland
Swing
as George Verdi
Tears of the Sun
as Captain Bill Rhodes
2002
The Alien Saga
as Self
Greenmail
as Tom Bradshaw
Changing Hearts
as Johnny Pinkley
2001
Texas Rangers
as Richard Dukes
2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
High Noon
as Will Kane
An American Daughter
as Walter
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Self
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
1999
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
Into the Wild Blue
as Host
The Other Sister
as Radley Tate
1998
Smoke Signals
as Police Chief
Two for Texas
as Sam Houston
1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Norm Jenkins
Contact
as David Drumlin
Divided by Hate
as Steve Riordan
1994
Over California in High Definition
as Narrator (voice)
1992
A River Runs Through It
as Rev. Maclean
Singles
as Mayor Weber
Getting Up and Going Home
as Jack Montgomery
Poison Ivy
as Darryl Cooper
In Sickness and in Health
as Jerritt Mattison
Knight Moves
as Frank Sedman
1991
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
as Ham McDonald
1990
The Rookie
as Eugene Ackerman
She'll Take Romance
as Judge Warren Danvers
A Question About Sex
as Jim
Child in the Night
as Detective Bass
The China Lake Murders
as Sheriff Sam Brodie
1989
Big Man on Campus
as Dr. Webster
Red King, White Knight
as Stoner
Steel Magnolias
as Drum Eatenton
The Heist
as Ebbet Berens
1988
Poltergeist III
as Bruce Gardner
Nightmare at Bittercreek
as Ding
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
1986
Wisdom
as Lloyd Wisdom
Miles to Go…
as Stuart Browning
Opposing Force
as Logan
The Parent Trap II
as Bill Grand
SpaceCamp
as Zack
Top Gun
as Viper
1984
A Touch of Scandal
as Father Dwelle
Calendar Girl Murders
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
1982
A Dangerous Summer
as Howard Anderson
Fighting Back
as John D'Angelo
1981
Silence of the North
as Walter Reamer
Savage Harvest
as Casey
1979
Alien
as Dallas
1978
Ice Castles
as Marcus Winston
Up in Smoke
as Strawberry
Maneaters Are Loose!
as John Gosford
1977
The Turning Point
as Wayne
1976
Plot of Fear
as Chief Inspector
La madama
as Jack
1975
The Devil's Rain
as Tom Preston
The Last Day
as Bill Powers
1974
Big Bad Mama
as Fred
Run, Run, Joe!
as Margherito
Thieves Like Us
as Dee Mobley
1973
The Birdmen
as Orville Fitzgerald
1972
Fuzz
as Det. Bert Kling
1971
Harold and Maude
as Motorcycle Officer
Wild Rovers
as John Buckman
1970
The Moonshine War
as Neighbor (uncredited)
M*A*S*H
as Duke Forrest
1967
A Bell for Adano
as Sgt. Trapani
1965
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
as Corky Mardis
1964
Those Calloways
as Whit Turner
One Man's Way
as Leonard Peale, Grown
1962
War Hunt
as Sgt. Stan Showalter