Tom Skerritt

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-08-25 (92 years old)

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

Acting

1992

1970

M*A*S*H

as Duke Forrest

1997

Contact

as David Drumlin

2006

Desperation

as John Edward Marinville

1986

Top Gun

as Viper

1988

Poltergeist III

as Bruce Gardner

1987

Maid to Order

as Charles Montgomery

1989

Steel Magnolias

as Drum Eatenton

1972

Fuzz

as Det. Bert Kling

1992

Singles

as Mayor Weber

1983

The Dead Zone

as Sheriff Bannerman

2009

Whiteout

as Dr. John Fury

2003

Path to War

as William Westmoreland

1992

Knight Moves

as Frank Sedman

1981

1990

The Rookie

as Eugene Ackerman

1964

One Man's Way

as Leonard Peale, Grown

1970

The Moonshine War

as Neighbor (uncredited)

1978

Maneaters Are Loose!

as John Gosford

1974

Thieves Like Us

as Dee Mobley

2009

For Sale By Owner

as Clive Farrier

1962

War Hunt

as Sgt. Stan Showalter

1992

Poison Ivy

as Darryl Cooper

2003

Tears of the Sun

as Captain Bill Rhodes

2001

Texas Rangers

as Richard Dukes

1986

1986

SpaceCamp

as Zack

1986

Wisdom

as Lloyd Wisdom

2008

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Gabe Utterson

2006

Mammoth

as Simon Abernathy

2009

The Velveteen Rabbit

as Horse (voice)

1971

Wild Rovers

as John Buckman

1964

Those Calloways

as Whit Turner

1977

1976

Plot of Fear

as Chief Inspector

1974

1975

The Devil's Rain

as Tom Preston

2006

Bonneville

as Emmett L. Johnson

1999

The Other Sister

as Radley Tate

1997

Divided by Hate

as Steve Riordan

2006

Fallen

as Zeke

1986

The Parent Trap II

as Bill Grand

1978

Ice Castles

as Marcus Winston

2002

Changing Hearts

as Johnny Pinkley

2000

High Noon

as Will Kane

2012

Ted

as Tom Skerritt

1989

The Heist

as Ebbet Berens

2011

1967

A Bell for Adano

as Sgt. Trapani

2012

Soda Springs

as Walt Jackson

2005

Vinegar Hill

as Fritz Grier

2003

Swing

as George Verdi

1982

Fighting Back

as John D'Angelo

2004

Homeland Security

as Admiral McKee

1998

Two for Texas

as Sam Houston

1982

A Dangerous Summer

as Howard Anderson

1984

Calendar Girl Murders

as Lieutenant Dan Stoner

1990

Child in the Night

as Detective Bass

1990

The China Lake Murders

as Sheriff Sam Brodie

1987

Poker Alice

as Jeremy Collins

1994

2013

At Middleton

as Dr. Roland Emerson

2002

Greenmail

as Tom Bradshaw

2011

Over Hawaii

as Narrator (voice)

1988

Moving Target

as Joseph Kellogg

1989

Big Man on Campus

as Dr. Webster

2013

Redwood Highway

as Pete Peterson

1974

Run, Run, Joe!

as Margherito

2025

Broke

as Cliff

2014

Wings: Sky Force Heroes

as Colonel (voice)

1976

La madama

as Jack

1978

Up in Smoke

as Strawberry

1987

The Big Town

as Phil Carpenter

1981

Silence of the North

as Walter Reamer

2008

Beer for My Horses

as Sheriff Wilson Landry

1975

The Last Day

as Bill Powers

1990

She'll Take Romance

as Judge Warren Danvers

1992

Getting Up and Going Home

as Jack Montgomery

2011

Your Love Never Fails

as Jack Connors

1971

Harold and Maude

as Motorcycle Officer

2007

Killer Wave

as Victor Bannister

1997

2000

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy

1979

Alien

as Dallas

2015

Field of Lost Shoes

as Ulysses S. Grant

1986

Miles to Go…

as Stuart Browning

2014

1984

A Touch of Scandal

as Father Dwelle

2002

2016

2005

2017

Lucky

as Fred

1992

In Sickness and in Health

as Jerritt Mattison

1988

Honor Bound

as Sam Cahill

2017

Day of Days

as Walter

2019

The Phantom 52

as The Phantom

1998

Smoke Signals

as Police Chief

2021

1973

The Birdmen

as Orville Fitzgerald

2025

Alien, Terror in Space

as Self - Interviewee

Production

1997

Divided by Hate

as Director

2021

East of the Mountains

as Executive Producer

1990

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