Tom Skerritt
Known for: Acting
Born: August 25, 1933
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
Desperation
2006
Poltergeist III
1988
Savage Harvest
1981
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
Opposing Force
1986
High Noon
2000
Soda Springs
2012
Fighting Back
1982
A Dangerous Summer
1982
Calendar Girl Murders
1984
The China Lake Murders
1990
Over California
1994
Over Hawaii
2011
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009
Red King, White Knight
1989
Getting Up and Going Home
1992
Soaring Over America
2010
Alien
1979
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009
Day of Days
2017
Over America
1995
The Phantom 52
2019
Into the Wild Blue
1999
East of the Mountains
2021
Poison Ivy
1992
Big Bad Mama
1974
The Parent Trap II
1986
Vinegar Hill
2005
Homeland Security
2004
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
An American Daughter
2000
Child in the Night
1990
Poker Alice
1987
Greenmail
2002
Nightmare at Bittercreek
1988
Moving Target
1988
Run, Run, Joe!
1974
A Touch of Scandal
1984
In Sickness and in Health
1992
A River Runs Through It
1992
M*A*S*H
1970
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991
Fuzz
1972
The Dead Zone
1983
Whiteout
2009
Knight Moves
1992
Wisdom
1986
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008
Mammoth
2006
The Velveteen Rabbit
2009
The Turning Point
1977
The Other Sister
1999
Divided by Hate
1997
The Heist
1989
Swing
2003
Silence of the North
1981
Your Love Never Fails
2011
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
Journey Back to Christmas
2016
Catch the Bullet
2021
Alien: Terror in Space
2025
For Sale by Owner
2009
Ice Castles
1978
Changing Hearts
2002
Two for Texas
1998
Miles to Go…
1986
Contact
1997
Top Gun
1986
The Rookie
1990
Wild Rovers
1971
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
A Hologram for the King
2016
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
2014
Lucky
2017
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
Maid to Order
1987
Texas Rangers
2001
The Devil’s Rain
1975
Bonneville
2006
Redemption Road
2011
At Middleton
2013
Broke
2025
La madama
1976
The Big Town
1987
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000
Steel Magnolias
1989
Thieves Like Us
1974
Tears of the Sun
2003
SpaceCamp
1986
Big Man on Campus
1989
Beer for My Horses
2008
The Last Day
1975
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
Field of Lost Shoes
2015
War Hunt
1962
Fallen
2006
Redwood Highway
2013
She'll Take Romance
1990
The Alien Saga
2002
Singles
1992
The Birdmen
1973
Plot of Fear
1976
Harold and Maude
1971
Path to War
2003
Honor Bound
1988
Those Calloways
1964
Ted
2012
Smoke Signals
1998
A Bell for Adano
1967
A Look Through His Lens
2024
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965
A Question About Sex
1990
Up in Smoke
1978
The Moonshine War
1970
One Man's Way
1964
Altman on His Own Terms
2000
The Time Tunnel
1966
Brothers and Sisters
2006
The F.B.I.
1965
Huff
2004
The Twilight Zone
1985
Hawaii Five-O
1968
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Baretta
1975
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Mannix
1967
History vs. Hollywood
2001
Gunsmoke
1955
Combat!
1962
Cannon
1971
Will & Grace
1998
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Chicago Hope
1994
The Colbert Report
2005
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
Felony Squad
1966
Run for Your Life
1965
The Fugitive
1963
S.W.A.T.
1975
The Virginian
1962
Lancer
1968
The Hitchhiker
1983
The Grid
2004
The Manhunter
1974
The Trojan Horse
2008
Get Christie Love!
1974
Fallen
2007
Ryan's Four
1983
Killer Wave
2007
12 O'Clock High
1964
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
1999
White Collar
2009
The West Wing
1999
Homeland Security
2004
Picket Fences
1992
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Nichols
1971
Danger Bay
1985
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007
The American West
2016
Bonanza
1959
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Wagon Train
1957
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
Category 7: The End of the World
2005
Leverage
2008
Cheers
1982
The Closer
2005
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
The Real McCoys
1957
Backstory
2000
The Good Wife
2009
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Dead Zone
2002
Madam Secretary
2014
The Outsider
1968
Cimarron Strip
1967
Going Home
2022
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
Tony Awards
1956
Origins of the Mafia
1976