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
| Birth Location | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
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| Born | 1933-08-25 |
Movies
East of the Mountains
as Ben Givens
2021
Catch the Bullet
as Dex
2021
The Phantom 52
as The Phantom
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
2019
Lucky
as Fred
2017
Day of Days
as Walter
2017
Journey Back to Christmas
as Tobias Cook
2016
A Hologram for the King
as Ron Clay
2016
Field of Lost Shoes
as Ulysses S. Grant
2015
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
as Narrator (voice)
2014
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Colonel (voice)
2014
At Middleton
as Dr. Roland Emerson
2013
Redwood Highway
as Pete Peterson
2013
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
2012
Soda Springs
as Walt Jackson
2012
Redemption Road
as Santa
2011
Your Love Never Fails
as Jack Connors
2011
Over Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
2011
2010
For Sale By Owner
as Clive Farrier
2009
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
as Narrator (voice)
2009
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
2009
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Horse (voice)
2009
Beer for My Horses
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
2008
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Gabe Utterson
2008
2008
Killer Wave
as Victor Bannister
2007
Bonneville
as Emmett L. Johnson
2006
Fallen
as Zeke
2006
Desperation
as John Edward Marinville
2006
Mammoth
as Simon Abernathy
2006
Category 7: The End of the World
as Colonel Mike Davis
2005
Vinegar Hill
as Fritz Grier
2005
Homeland Security
as Admiral McKee
2004
The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self
2003
Path to War
as General William Westmoreland
2003
Swing
as George Verdi
2003
Tears of the Sun
as Captain Bill Rhodes
2003
Greenmail
as Tom Bradshaw
2002
Changing Hearts
as Johnny Pinkley
2002
Texas Rangers
as Richard Dukes
2001
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000
High Noon
as Will Kane
2000
An American Daughter
as Walter
2000
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Self
2000
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
1999
Into the Wild Blue
as Host
1999
The Other Sister
as Radley Tate
1999
Two for Texas
as Sam Houston
1998
Smoke Signals
as Police Chief
1998
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Norm Jenkins
1997
Contact
as David Drumlin
1997
Divided by Hate
as Steve Riordan
1997
Over California in High Definition
as Narrator (voice)
1994
A River Runs Through It
as Rev. Maclean
1992
Singles
as Mayor Weber
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
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
as Ham McDonald
1991
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
1990
Big Man on Campus
as Dr. Webster
1989
Red King, White Knight
as Stoner
1989
Steel Magnolias
as Drum Eatenton
1989
The Heist
as Ebbet Berens
1989
Poltergeist III
as Bruce Gardner
1988
Nightmare at Bittercreek
as Ding
1988
Moving Target
as Joseph Kellogg
1988
Honor Bound
as Sam Cahill
1988
The Big Town
as Phil Carpenter
1987
Maid to Order
as Charles Montgomery
1987
Poker Alice
as Jeremy Collins
1987
Wisdom
as Lloyd Wisdom
1986
Miles to Go…
as Stuart Browning
1986
Opposing Force
as Logan
1986
The Parent Trap II
as Bill Grand
1986
SpaceCamp
as Zack
1986
Top Gun
as Cmdr. Mike 'Viper' Metcalf
1986
A Touch of Scandal
as Father Dwelle
1984
Calendar Girl Murders
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
1984
The Dead Zone
as Sheriff Bannerman
1983
A Dangerous Summer
as Howard Anderson
1982
Fighting Back
as John D'Angelo
1982
Silence of the North
as Walter Reamer
1981
Savage Harvest
as Casey
1981
Alien
as Dallas
1979
Ice Castles
as Marcus Winston
1978
Up in Smoke
as Strawberry
1978
Maneaters Are Loose!
as John Gosford
1978
The Turning Point
as Wayne
1977
Plot of Fear
as Chief Inspector
1976
La madama
as Jack
1976
The Devil's Rain
as Tom Preston
1975
The Last Day
as Bill Powers
1975
Big Bad Mama
as Fred
1974
Run, Run, Joe!
as Margherito
1974
Thieves Like Us
as Dee Mobley
1974
The Birdmen
as Orville Fitzgerald
1973
Fuzz
as Det. Bert Kling
1972
Harold and Maude
as Motorcycle Officer
1971
Wild Rovers
as John Buckman
1971
The Moonshine War
as Neighbor (uncredited)
1970
M*A*S*H
as Duke Forrest
1970
A Bell for Adano
as Sgt. Trapani
1967
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
as Corky Mardis
1965
Those Calloways
as Whit Turner
1965
One Man's Way
as Leonard Peale, Grown
1964
War Hunt
as Sgt. Stan Showalter
1962
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