Tom Skerritt
Born: 1933-08-25 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Broke as Cliff
- Alien: Terror in Space as Self - Actor
2024
- A Look Through His Lens as Self
2022
- Going Home as Vance Baker
2021
- East of the Mountains as Ben Givens
- Catch the Bullet as Dex
2019
- Memory: The Origins of Alien as Self
- The Phantom 52 as The Phantom
2017
- Day of Days as Walter
- Lucky as Fred
2016
- Journey Back to Christmas as Tobias Cook
- A Hologram for the King as Ron Clay
- The American West as Self
2015
- Field of Lost Shoes as Ulysses S. Grant
2014
- Madam Secretary as Patrick McCord
- Wings: Sky Force Heroes as Colonel (voice)
- The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway as Narrator (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
- Over Hawaii as Narrator (voice)
- Your Love Never Fails as Jack Connors
2010
2009
- The Good Wife as James Paisley
- White Collar as Alan Mitchell
- Whiteout as Dr. John Fury
- The Velveteen Rabbit as Horse (voice)
- The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club as Narrator
- Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition as Narrator (voice)
- For Sale by Owner as Clive Farrier
2008
- Leverage as Jimmy Ford
- Over America
- Beer for My Horses as Sheriff Wilson Landry
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Gabe Utterson
- The Trojan Horse as President Stanfield
2007
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as Self
- Fallen
- Killer Wave as Victor Bannister
2006
- Brothers and Sisters as William Walker
- Fallen as Zeke
- Mammoth as Simon Abernathy
- Bonneville as Emmett L. Johnson
- Desperation as John Edward Marinville
2005
- The Colbert Report as Viper (archive footage)
- The Closer as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
- Vinegar Hill as Fritz Grier
- Category 7: The End of the World as Colonel Mike Davis
- Category 7: The End of the World as Colonel Mike Davis
2004
- Homeland Security as Admiral McKee
- Huff
- The Grid
- Homeland Security as Admiral Theodore McKee
2003
- Tears of the Sun as Captain Bill Rhodes
- Swing as George Verdi
- Path to War as William Westmoreland
- The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
2002
- The Dead Zone as Herb Smith
- Changing Hearts as Johnny Pinkley
- Greenmail as Tom Bradshaw
- The Alien Saga as Self
2001
- Texas Rangers as Richard Dukes
- History vs. Hollywood as Self
2000
- High Noon as Will Kane
- Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
- Altman on His Own Terms as Self
- Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' as Self
- An American Daughter as Walter
- Backstory as Self
- Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Oliver Taft
- The West Wing as Chris Carrick
- The Other Sister as Radley Tate
- Into the Wild Blue as Host
- Aftershock: Earthquake in New York as Thomas Ahearn
- The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer as Fred Maddux
- The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer as Fred Maddux
1998
- Will & Grace as Dr. Jay Markus
- Smoke Signals as Police Chief
- Two for Texas as Sam Houston
1997
- Contact as David Drumlin
- What the Deaf Man Heard as Norm Jenkins
- Divided by Hate as Steve Riordan
1994
- Chicago Hope
- Over California in High Definition as Narrator (voice)
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1992
- Picket Fences as Jimmy Brock
- Knight Moves as Frank Sedman
- A River Runs Through It as Rev. Maclean
- Singles as Mayor Weber
- Poison Ivy as Darryl Cooper
- In Sickness and in Health as Jerritt Mattison
- Getting Up and Going Home as Jack Montgomery
1991
- Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue as Ham McDonald
1990
- The Rookie as Eugene Ackerman
- Child in the Night as Detective Bass
- The China Lake Murders as Sheriff Sam Brodie
- She'll Take Romance as Judge Warren Danvers
- A Question About Sex as Jim
1989
- Steel Magnolias as Drum Eatenton
- The Heist as Ebbet Berens
- Red King, White Knight as Stoner
- Big Man on Campus as Dr. Webster
1988
- Moving Target as Joseph Kellogg
- Nightmare at Bittercreek as Ding
- Honor Bound as Sam Cahill
- Poltergeist III as Bruce Gardner
1987
- The Big Town as Phil Carpenter
- Poker Alice as Jeremy Collins
- Maid to Order as Charles Montgomery
1986
- Top Gun as Viper
- The Parent Trap II as Bill Grand
- Opposing Force as Logan
- Wisdom as Lloyd Wisdom
- Miles to Go… as Stuart Browning
- SpaceCamp as Zack
1985
- The Twilight Zone as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
- Danger Bay as Don Bared
1984
- Calendar Girl Murders as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
- A Touch of Scandal as Father Dwelle
1983
- The Hitchhiker as Detective Frank Sheen
- The Dead Zone as Sheriff Bannerman
- Ryan's Four as Dr. Thomas Ryan
1982
- Cheers as Evan Drake
- Fighting Back as John D'Angelo
- A Dangerous Summer as Howard Anderson
1981
- Savage Harvest as Casey
- Silence of the North as Walter Reamer
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
- Origins of the Mafia as Bernardino Campo
1975
- Baretta
- S.W.A.T.
- The Last Day as Bill Powers
- The Devil's Rain as Tom Preston
1974
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- Run, Run, Joe! as Margherito
- Thieves Like Us as Dee Mobley
- The Manhunter
- Big Bad Mama as Fred
- Get Christie Love!
1973
- The Birdmen as Orville Fitzgerald
1972
- ABC Afterschool Special ... (Director)
- Fuzz as Det. Bert Kling
1971
- Cannon as Bud
- Wild Rovers as John Buckman
- Nichols as Charley Doyle
- Harold and Maude as Motorcycle Officer
1970
- M*A*S*H as Duke Forrest
- The Moonshine War as Neighbor (uncredited)
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Lew Morgan
- Lancer
- The Outsider as Arnie Cambor
1967
- Mannix as Morgan Carpenter
- Cimarron Strip as Enoch Shelton
- A Bell for Adano as Sgt. Trapani
1966
- Felony Squad
- The Time Tunnel as Matthew Gebhardt
1965
- The F.B.I. as Robert Hastings
- Run for Your Life as Lou Patterson
- The Further Adventures of Gallegher as Corky Mardis
1964
- 12 O'Clock High as Lt. Paddy Gialella
- One Man's Way as Leonard Peale, Grown
- Those Calloways as Whit Turner
1963
- The Fugitive as Neely Hollister
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as Eric Kroeger
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Frank Farmer
- Combat! as Hicks
- War Hunt as Sgt. Stan Showalter
1959
- Bonanza as Jerry
1957
- Wagon Train as Hamish Browne
- The Real McCoys as Mailman
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1955
- Gunsmoke as Edmund Dano
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Corky Mardis
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Norm Jenkins
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee