Tom Skerritt

Personal Info

Known For Actor

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

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

Actor

2021
East of the Mountains

as Ben Givens

2021
2019
The Phantom 52

as The Phantom

2017
Lucky

as Fred

2017
Day of Days

as Walter

2016
2016
2016
2015
Field of Lost Shoes

as Ulysses S. Grant

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
2011
Your Love Never Fails

as Jack Connors

2011
Over Hawaii

as Narrator (voice)

2009
For Sale By Owner

as Clive Farrier

2009
Whiteout

as Dr. John Fury

2009
The Velveteen Rabbit

as Horse (voice)

2009
White Collar

as Alan Mitchell

2009
The Good Wife

as James Paisley

2008
Beer for My Horses

as Sheriff Wilson Landry

2008
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Gabe Utterson

2008
Leverage

as Jimmy Ford

2008
The Trojan Horse

as President Stanfield

2007
Killer Wave

as Victor Bannister

2007
2007
Killer Wave

as Victor Bannister

2006
Bonneville

as Emmett L. Johnson

2006
Fallen

as Zeke

2006
Desperation

as John Edward Marinville

2006
Mammoth

as Simon Abernathy

2006
Brothers and Sisters

as William Walker

2005
Category 7: The End of the World

as Colonel Mike Davis

2005
Vinegar Hill

as Fritz Grier

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

2004
Homeland Security

as Admiral McKee

2004
2004
Homeland Security

as Admiral Theodore McKee

2003
Path to War

as William Westmoreland

2003
Swing

as George Verdi

2003
Tears of the Sun

as Captain Bill Rhodes

2002
2002
Greenmail

as Tom Bradshaw

2002
Changing Hearts

as Johnny Pinkley

2001
Texas Rangers

as Richard Dukes

2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy

2000
High Noon

as Will Kane

2000
2000
Backstory

as Self

1999
1999
The Other Sister

as Radley Tate

1999
The West Wing

as Senator Chris Carrick

1998
Smoke Signals

as Police Chief

1998
Two for Texas

as Sam Houston

1998
Will & Grace

as Dr. Jay Markus

1997
What the Deaf Man Heard

as Norm Jenkins

1997
Contact

as David Drumlin

1997
Divided by Hate

as Steve Riordan

1994
1993
1992
A River Runs Through It

as Rev. Maclean

1992
Singles

as Mayor Weber

1992
Picket Fences: Pilot

as Sheriff 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

1992
Picket Fences

as Jimmy Brock

1990
The Rookie

as Eugene Ackerman

1990
She'll Take Romance

as Judge Warren Danvers

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
Steel Magnolias

as Drum Eatenton

1989
The Heist

as Ebbet Berens

1988
Poltergeist III

as Bruce Gardner

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
1986
The Parent Trap II

as Bill Grand

1986
SpaceCamp

as Zack

1986
Top Gun

as Viper

1985
Danger Bay

as Don Bared

1984
A Touch of Scandal

as Father Dwelle

1984
Calendar Girl Murders

as Lieutenant Dan Stoner

1983
The Dead Zone

as Sheriff Bannerman

1983
The Hitchhiker

as Detective Frank Sheen

1982
A Dangerous Summer

as Howard Anderson

1982
Fighting Back

as John D'Angelo

1982
Cheers

as Evan Drake

1981
Silence of the North

as Walter Reamer

1981
1979
Alien

as Dallas

1978
Ice Castles

as Marcus Winston

1978
Up in Smoke

as Strawberry

1978
Maneaters Are Loose!

as John Gosford

1977
1976
Plot of Fear

as Chief Inspector

1976
La madama

as Jack

1976
Origins of the Mafia

as Bernardino Campo

1975
The Devil's Rain

as Tom Preston

1975
The Last Day

as Bill Powers

1974
Big Bad Mama

as Fred

1974
Run, Run, Joe!

as Margherito

1974
Thieves Like Us

as Dee Mobley

1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

as Robert W. Palmer

1973
The Birdmen

as Orville Fitzgerald

1972
Fuzz

as Det. Bert Kling

1971
Harold and Maude

as Motorcycle Officer

1971
Wild Rovers

as John Buckman

1971
Nichols

as Charley Doyle

1971
Cannon

as Bud

1970
The Moonshine War

as Neighbor (uncredited)

1970
M*A*S*H

as Duke Forrest

1968
1968
Hawaii Five-O

as Lew Morgan

1967
A Bell for Adano

as Sgt. Trapani

1967
Mannix

as Morgan Carpenter

1966
The Time Tunnel

as Matthew Gebhardt

1965
Those Calloways

as Whit Turner

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

1964
One Man's Way

as Leonard Peale, Grown

1964
12 O'Clock High

as Lt. Paddy Gialella

1964
12 O'Clock High

as Lt. Steve Parmalee

1963
The Fugitive

as Neely Hollister

1963
The Fugitive

as Pete Edwards

1962
War Hunt

as Sgt. Stan Showalter

1962
Combat!

as Hicks

1962
Combat!

as Burke

1962
Combat!

as Sgt. Decker

1962
1962
The Virginian

as Eric Kroeger

1962
The Virginian

as Rev. Paul Martinson

1962
The Virginian

as Billy Landers

1962
The Virginian

as Moran

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
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Norm Jenkins

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Director

1997
Divided by Hate

as Director

1990
1972

Producer

2021
East of the Mountains

as Executive Producer