Tom Skerritt

ActorProducerDirector Aug 25 (age 92) Detroit, Michigan, USA 1944–2025 (81 year career)

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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

Film

Alien

Dallas

Film

Top Gun

Viper

Film

Contact

David Drumlin

Film

Ted

Tom Skerritt

Film

Tears of the Sun

Captain Bill Rhodes

Film

Harold and Maude

Motorcycle Officer

Film

The Dead Zone

Sheriff Bannerman

Film

A River Runs Through It

Rev. Maclean

Filmography

Acting (185)

Movies (118)

Broke

2025

as Cliff

7.0

Alien: Terror in Space

2025

as Self - Actor

6.8

A Look Through His Lens

2024

as Self

East of the Mountains

as Ben Givens

Catch the Bullet

as Dex

Memory: The Origins of Alien

as Self

The Phantom 52

as The Phantom

Lucky

as Fred

Day of Days

as Walter

A Hologram for the King

2016

as Ron Clay

5.9

Journey Back to Christmas

as Tobias Cook

Field of Lost Shoes

as Ulysses S. Grant

Wings: Sky Force Heroes

2014

as Colonel (voice)

5.4

The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway

as Narrator (voice)

Redwood Highway

as Pete Peterson

At Middleton

as Dr. Roland Emerson

Ted

as Tom Skerritt

Soda Springs

as Walt Jackson

Over Hawaii

as Narrator (voice)

Redemption Road

2011

as Santa

5.0

Your Love Never Fails

as Jack Connors

Soaring Over America

Whiteout

as Dr. John Fury

The Velveteen Rabbit

as Horse (voice)

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

2009

as Narrator (voice)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

2008

as Gabe Utterson

4.6

Beer for My Horses

2008

as Sheriff Wilson Landry

4.8

Over America

2008

Desperation

2006

as John Edward Marinville

Bonneville

as Emmett L. Johnson

Mammoth

as Simon Abernathy

Fallen

as Zeke

Category 7: The End of the World

2005

as Colonel Mike Davis

Vinegar Hill

as Fritz Grier

Homeland Security

as Admiral McKee

Tears of the Sun

as Captain Bill Rhodes

6.9

Swing

2003

as George Verdi

8.0

The Beast Within: Making Alien

2003

as Self

8.2

Path to War

2003

as William Westmoreland

Greenmail

as Tom Bradshaw

Changing Hearts

as Johnny Pinkley

The Alien Saga

as Self

Texas Rangers

as Richard Dukes

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

2000

as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy

An American Daughter

as Walter

High Noon

as Will Kane

Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'

2000

as Self

6.0

Altman on His Own Terms

2000

as Self

The Other Sister

1999

as Radley Tate

6.3

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

1999

as Fred Maddux

4.2

Into the Wild Blue

1999

as Host

Two for Texas

as Sam Houston

Smoke Signals

as Police Chief

Contact

as David Drumlin

What the Deaf Man Heard

as Norm Jenkins

Divided by Hate

as Steve Riordan

Over California in High Definition

1994

as Narrator (voice)

6.5

In Sickness and in Health

1992

as Jerritt Mattison

1.0

Getting Up and Going Home

1992

as Jack Montgomery

A River Runs Through It

as Rev. Maclean

Poison Ivy

as Darryl Cooper

Singles

as Mayor Weber

Knight Moves

as Frank Sedman

Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue

as Ham McDonald

The Rookie

as Eugene Ackerman

A Question About Sex

as Jim

The China Lake Murders

1990

as Sheriff Sam Brodie

Child in the Night

as Detective Bass

She'll Take Romance

as Judge Warren Danvers

Steel Magnolias

as Drum Eatenton

The Heist

as Ebbet Berens

Red King, White Knight

as Stoner

Big Man on Campus

as Dr. Webster

Poltergeist III

as Bruce Gardner

Moving Target

as Joseph Kellogg

Nightmare at Bittercreek

1988

as Ding

5.6

Honor Bound

1988

as Sam Cahill

Poker Alice

as Jeremy Collins

The Big Town

as Phil Carpenter

Maid to Order

as Charles Montgomery

Top Gun

as Viper

The Parent Trap II

as Bill Grand

Opposing Force

as Logan

SpaceCamp

as Zack

Wisdom

as Lloyd Wisdom

Miles to Go…

as Stuart Browning

Calendar Girl Murders

1984

as Lieutenant Dan Stoner

4.6

A Touch of Scandal

1984

as Father Dwelle

The Dead Zone

as Sheriff Bannerman

Fighting Back

as John D'Angelo

A Dangerous Summer

as Howard Anderson

Silence of the North

as Walter Reamer

Savage Harvest

as Casey

Alien

as Dallas

Ice Castles

as Marcus Winston

Up in Smoke

as Strawberry

Maneaters Are Loose!

as John Gosford

The Turning Point

as Wayne

Plot of Fear

as Chief Inspector

La madama

as Jack

The Devil’s Rain

as Tom Preston

The Last Day

as Bill Powers

Run, Run, Joe!

as Margherito

Big Bad Mama

as Fred

Thieves Like Us

as Dee Mobley

The Birdmen

as Orville Fitzgerald

Fuzz

as Det. Bert Kling

Harold and Maude

as Motorcycle Officer

Wild Rovers

as John Buckman

M*A*S*H

as Duke Forrest

The Moonshine War

as Neighbor (uncredited)

5.5

A Bell for Adano

1967

as Sgt. Trapani

The Further Adventures of Gallegher

1965

as Corky Mardis

Those Calloways

1964

as Whit Turner

6.3

One Man's Way

1964

as Leonard Peale, Grown

3.3

War Hunt

1962

as Sgt. Stan Showalter

6.5

Television (67)

Going Home

2022

as Vance Baker

The American West

as Self

Madam Secretary

as Patrick McCord

The Good Wife

as James Paisley

White Collar

as Alan Mitchell

Leverage

as Jimmy Ford

The Trojan Horse

as President Stanfield

4.0

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

as Self

Killer Wave

as Victor Bannister

Fallen

as Zeke

Brothers and Sisters

as William Walker

The Colbert Report

as Viper (archive footage)

6.9

The Closer

2005

as Det. Joey 'O' Olin

7.9

Category 7: The End of the World

2005

as Colonel Mike Davis

Huff

The Grid

Homeland Security

as Admiral Theodore McKee

The Dead Zone

2002

as Herb Smith

7.3

History vs. Hollywood

as Self

Backstory

as Self

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

2000

as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy

6.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Oliver Taft

The West Wing

as Chris Carrick

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

1999

as Thomas Ahearn

7.0

The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer

as Fred Maddux

Will & Grace

as Dr. Jay Markus

E! True Hollywood Story

Chicago Hope

as Jim Kellner

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Picket Fences

as Jimmy Brock

The Twilight Zone

as (segment "What Are Friends For?")

Danger Bay

as Don Bared

The Hitchhiker

as Detective Frank Sheen

6.1

Ryan's Four

1983

as Dr. Thomas Ryan

Cheers

1982

as Evan Drake

7.6

Origins of the Mafia

1976

as Bernardino Campo

Baretta

S.W.A.T.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

as Robert W. Palmer

The Manhunter

Get Christie Love!

Cannon

as Bud

Nichols

as Charley Doyle

Hawaii Five-O

as Lew Morgan

Lancer

The Outsider

as Arnie Cambor

Mannix

as Morgan Carpenter

Cimarron Strip

as Enoch Shelton

The Time Tunnel

as Matthew Gebhardt

Felony Squad

The F.B.I.

as Robert Hastings

Run for Your Life

as Lou Patterson

12 O'Clock High

as Lt. Steve Parmalee

7.2

The Fugitive

1963

as Neely Hollister

7.2

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Frank Farmer

The Virginian

as Eric Kroeger

Combat!

as Hicks

Bonanza

as Jerry

Wagon Train

as Hamish Browne

The Real McCoys

as Mailman

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

Gunsmoke

1955

as Edmund Dano

6.6

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Corky Mardis

7.8

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Norm Jenkins

Golden Globe Awards

as Self

Crew (4)

Movies (3)

East of the Mountains

Executive Producer

Divided by Hate

Director

A Question About Sex

Director

Television (1)

ABC Afterschool Special

1972

Director

6.4