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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 25, 1933
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
- تام اسکریت
- Thomas Skerritt
Tom Skerritt
3.2 Popularity
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
Credits
Broke
as Cliff
2025
6.9
Alien: Terror in Space
as Self - Actor
2025
6.8
🎬
A Look Through His Lens
as Self
2024
0.0
Going Home
as Vance Baker
2022
0.0
East of the Mountains
as Ben Givens
2021
5.3
Catch the Bullet
as Dex
2021
5.6
The Phantom 52
as The Phantom
2019
9.4
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
2019
6.3
Lucky
as Fred
2017
7.3
Day of Days
as Walter
2017
3.5
Journey Back to Christmas
as Tobias Cook
2016
6.5
The American West
as Self
2016
6.7
A Hologram for the King
as Ron Clay
2016
5.8
Field of Lost Shoes
as Ulysses S. Grant
2015
6.1
Madam Secretary
as Patrick McCord
2014
7.0
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
as Narrator (voice)
2014
8.0
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Colonel (voice)
2014
5.4
At Middleton
as Dr. Roland Emerson
2013
6.2
Redwood Highway
as Pete Peterson
2013
5.9
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
2012
6.4
Soda Springs
as Walt Jackson
2012
5.6
Redemption Road
as Santa
2011
5.0
Your Love Never Fails
as Jack Connors
2011
5.8
Over Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
2011
0.0
Soaring Over America
2010
0.0
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
as Narrator
2009
6.2
For Sale by Owner
as Clive Farrier
2009
3.3
White Collar
as Alan Mitchell
2009
8.2
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
as Narrator (voice)
2009
0.0
The Good Wife
as James Paisley
2009
7.6
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
2009
5.6
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Horse (voice)
2009
6.6
Leverage
as Jimmy Ford
2008
7.6
Beer for My Horses
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
2008
4.8
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Gabe Utterson
2008
4.6
The Trojan Horse
as President Stanfield
2008
4.0
Over America
2008
0.0
Fallen
2007
6.7
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
as Self
2007
7.4
Killer Wave
as Victor Bannister
2007
6.2
Brothers and Sisters
as William Walker
2006
7.1
Bonneville
as Emmett L. Johnson
2006
5.6
Fallen
as Zeke
2006
6.9
Desperation
as John Edward Marinville
2006
5.5
Mammoth
as Simon Abernathy
2006
4.5
Category 7: The End of the World
as Colonel Mike Davis
2005
6.1
Category 7: The End of the World
as Colonel Mike Davis
2005
6.5
The Colbert Report
as Viper (archive footage)
2005
6.9
The Closer
as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
2005
7.9
Vinegar Hill
as Fritz Grier
2005
3.5
Huff
2004
7.7
The Grid
2004
6.5
Homeland Security
as Admiral McKee
2004
3.8
Homeland Security
as Admiral Theodore McKee
2004
0.0
The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self
2003
8.2
Path to War
as William Westmoreland
2003
6.7
Swing
as George Verdi
2003
0.0
Tears of the Sun
as Captain Bill Rhodes
2003
6.9
The Alien Saga
as Self
2002
6.6
Greenmail
as Tom Bradshaw
2002
2.3
The Dead Zone
as Herb Smith
2002
7.3
Changing Hearts
as Johnny Pinkley
2002
6.3
Texas Rangers
as Richard Dukes
2001
6.0
History vs. Hollywood
as Self
2001
7.7
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000
6.0
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000
0.0
High Noon
as Will Kane
2000
5.2
Backstory
as Self
2000
6.5
An American Daughter
as Walter
2000
3.8
🎬
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Self
2000
6.0
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
2000
0.0
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
as Thomas Ahearn
1999
7.0
The West Wing
as Chris Carrick
1999
8.2
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Oliver Taft
1999
7.9
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
1999
4.7
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
1999
4.2
Into the Wild Blue
as Host
1999
0.0
The Other Sister
as Radley Tate
1999
6.3
Will & Grace
as Dr. Jay Markus
1998
6.8
Smoke Signals
as Police Chief
1998
6.8
Two for Texas
as Sam Houston
1998
6.0
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Norm Jenkins
1997
6.2
Contact
as David Drumlin
1997
7.4
Divided by Hate
as Steve Riordan
1997
6.7
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Chicago Hope
as Jim Kellner
1994
7.2
🎬
Over California in High Definition
as Narrator (voice)
1994
6.5
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
A River Runs Through It
as Rev. Maclean
1992
7.0
Picket Fences
as Jimmy Brock
1992
7.4
Singles
as Mayor Weber
1992
6.4
Getting Up and Going Home
as Jack Montgomery
1992
0.0
Poison Ivy
as Darryl Cooper
1992
5.4
In Sickness and in Health
as Jerritt Mattison
1992
1.0
Knight Moves
as Frank Sedman
1992
5.8
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
as Ham McDonald
1991
5.3
The Rookie
as Eugene Ackerman
1990
5.9
She'll Take Romance
as Judge Warren Danvers
1990
2.5
A Question About Sex
as Jim
1990
0.0
Child in the Night
as Detective Bass
1990
5.4
The China Lake Murders
as Sheriff Sam Brodie
1990
5.2
Big Man on Campus
as Dr. Webster
1989
6.2
Red King, White Knight
as Stoner
1989
6.0
Steel Magnolias
as Drum Eatenton
1989
7.2
The Heist
as Ebbet Berens
1989
4.9
Poltergeist III
as Bruce Gardner
1988
5.2
Nightmare at Bittercreek
as Ding
1988
5.6
Moving Target
as Joseph Kellogg
1988
6.0
Honor Bound
as Sam Cahill
1988
0.0
The Big Town
as Phil Carpenter
1987
5.6
Maid to Order
as Charles Montgomery
1987
5.4
Poker Alice
as Jeremy Collins
1987
6.3
Wisdom
as Lloyd Wisdom
1986
5.9
Miles to Go…
as Stuart Browning
1986
6.0
Opposing Force
as Logan
1986
4.3
The Parent Trap II
as Bill Grand
1986
5.4
SpaceCamp
as Zack
1986
5.9
Top Gun
as Viper
1986
7.1
Danger Bay
as Don Bared
1985
7.1
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
1985
7.8
A Touch of Scandal
as Father Dwelle
1984
0.0
Calendar Girl Murders
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
1984
4.4
The Hitchhiker
as Detective Frank Sheen
1983
6.1
The Dead Zone
as Sheriff Bannerman
1983
7.0
Ryan's Four
as Dr. Thomas Ryan
1983
0.0
A Dangerous Summer
as Howard Anderson
1982
3.7
Cheers
as Evan Drake
1982
7.6
Fighting Back
as John D'Angelo
1982
5.7
Silence of the North
as Walter Reamer
1981
4.0
Savage Harvest
as Casey
1981
5.7
Alien
as Dallas
1979
8.2
Ice Castles
as Marcus Winston
1978
7.3
Up in Smoke
as Strawberry
1978
6.6
Maneaters Are Loose!
as John Gosford
1978
0.0
The Turning Point
as Wayne
1977
6.5
Origins of the Mafia
as Bernardino Campo
1976
0.0
Plot of Fear
as Chief Inspector
1976
5.2
La madama
as Jack
1976
5.2
The Devil's Rain
as Tom Preston
1975
5.0
S.W.A.T.
1975
7.0
The Last Day
as Bill Powers
1975
6.2
Baretta
1975
6.4
Big Bad Mama
as Fred
1974
5.6
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
7.6
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Robert W. Palmer
1974
7.6
The Manhunter
1974
5.0
Run, Run, Joe!
as Margherito
1974
5.0
Thieves Like Us
as Dee Mobley
1974
6.5
Get Christie Love!
1974
7.9
The Birdmen
as Orville Fitzgerald
1973
7.5
Fuzz
as Det. Bert Kling
1972
5.4
Harold and Maude
as Motorcycle Officer
1971
7.6
Nichols
as Charley Doyle
1971
5.0
Cannon
as Bud
1971
6.6
Wild Rovers
as John Buckman
1971
6.2
The Moonshine War
as Neighbor (uncredited)
1970
5.5
M*A*S*H
as Duke Forrest
1970
7.0
Lancer
1968
4.7
Hawaii Five-O
as Lew Morgan
1968
7.1
The Outsider
as Arnie Cambor
1968
5.2
A Bell for Adano
as Sgt. Trapani
1967
0.0
Mannix
as Morgan Carpenter
1967
6.7
Cimarron Strip
as Enoch Shelton
1967
5.5
Felony Squad
1966
6.4
The Time Tunnel
as Matthew Gebhardt
1966
7.6
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
as Corky Mardis
1965
0.0
The F.B.I.
as Robert Hastings
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as John Clarence Rim
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Thorn Hazard
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Bill Leonard
1965
5.4
Run for Your Life
as Lou Patterson
1965
7.2
Those Calloways
as Whit Turner
1964
6.3
12 O'Clock High
as Lt. Paddy Gialella
1964
7.2
12 O'Clock High
as Lt. Steve Parmalee
1964
7.2
One Man's Way
as Leonard Peale, Grown
1964
3.3
The Fugitive
as Neely Hollister
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Pete Edwards
1963
7.2
Combat!
as Hicks
1962
7.7
Combat!
as Burke
1962
7.7
Combat!
as Sgt. Decker
1962
7.7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Frank Farmer
1962
7.8
The Virginian
as Eric Kroeger
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Rev. Paul Martinson
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Billy Landers
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Moran
1962
6.4
War Hunt
as Sgt. Stan Showalter
1962
6.5
Bonanza
as Jerry
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Corporal Bill Tanner
1959
7.5
The Real McCoys
as Mailman
1957
5.6
Wagon Train
as Hamish Browne
1957
6.6
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Gunsmoke
as Edmund Dano
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Ben Stone
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Orv Timpson
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Fred Garth
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Tuck Frye
1955
6.6
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Corky Mardis
1954
7.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Norm Jenkins
1951
8.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1944
7.2