Tom Skerritt
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-08-25 (91 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
(2025)
Broke
as Cliff
(2025)
Alien, Terror in Space
as Self - Interviewee
(2024)
A Look Through His Lens
as Self
(2021)
Catch the Bullet
as Dex
(2021)
East of the Mountains
as Ben Givens
(2019)
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
(2019)
The Phantom 52
as The Phantom
(2017)
Lucky
as Fred
(2017)
Day of Days
as Walter
(2016)
A Hologram for the King
as Ron Clay
(2016)
Journey Back to Christmas
as Tobias Cook
(2015)
Field of Lost Shoes
as Ulysses S. Grant
(2014)
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Colonel (voice)
(2014)
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
as Narrator (voice)
(2013)
At Middleton
as Dr. Roland Emerson
(2013)
Redwood Highway
as Pete Peterson
(2012)
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
(2012)
Soda Springs
as Walt Jackson
(2011)
Your Love Never Fails
as Jack Connors
(2011)
Redemption Road
as Santa
(2011)
Over Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
(2010)
(2009)
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
(2009)
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Horse (voice)
(2009)
For Sale By Owner
as Clive Farrier
(2009)
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
as Narrator (voice)
(2009)
(2008)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Gabe Utterson
(2008)
(2008)
Beer for My Horses
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
(2007)
Killer Wave
as Victor Bannister
(2006)
Fallen
as Zeke
(2006)
Desperation
as John Edward Marinville
(2006)
Mammoth
as Simon Abernathy
(2006)
Bonneville
as Emmett L. Johnson
(2005)
Category 7: The End of the World
as Colonel Mike Davis
(2005)
Vinegar Hill
as Fritz Grier
(2004)
Homeland Security
as Admiral McKee
(2003)
Tears of the Sun
as Captain Bill Rhodes
(2003)
Path to War
as William Westmoreland
(2003)
(2003)
Swing
as George Verdi
(2002)
Changing Hearts
as Johnny Pinkley
(2002)
The Alien Saga
as Self
(2002)
Greenmail
as Tom Bradshaw
(2001)
Texas Rangers
as Richard Dukes
(2000)
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
(2000)
High Noon
as Will Kane
(2000)
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
(2000)
An American Daughter
as Walter
(2000)
(1999)
The Other Sister
as Radley Tate
(1999)
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
(1999)
Into the Wild Blue
as Host
(1998)
Smoke Signals
as Police Chief
(1998)
Two for Texas
as Sam Houston
(1997)
Contact
as David Drumlin
(1997)
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Norm Jenkins
(1997)
Divided by Hate
as Steve Riordan
(1994)
Over California in High Definition
as Narrator (voice)
(1992)
A River Runs Through It
as Rev. Maclean
(1992)
Poison Ivy
as Darryl Cooper
(1992)
Singles
as Mayor Weber
(1992)
Knight Moves
as Frank Sedman
(1992)
Getting Up and Going Home
as Jack Montgomery
(1992)
In Sickness and in Health
as Jerritt Mattison
(1991)
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
as Ham McDonald
(1990)
The Rookie
as Eugene Ackerman
(1990)
Child in the Night
as Detective Bass
(1990)
The China Lake Murders
as Sheriff Sam Brodie
(1990)
A Question About Sex
as Jim
(1990)
She'll Take Romance
as Judge Warren Danvers
(1989)
Steel Magnolias
as Drum Eatenton
(1989)
Big Man on Campus
as Dr. Webster
(1989)
The Heist
as Ebbet Berens
(1989)
Red King, White Knight
as Stoner
(1988)
Poltergeist III
as Bruce Gardner
(1988)
Moving Target
as Joseph Kellogg
(1988)
Nightmare at Bittercreek
as Ding
(1988)
Honor Bound
as Sam Cahill
(1987)
The Big Town
as Phil Carpenter
(1987)
Maid to Order
as Charles Montgomery
(1987)
Poker Alice
as Jeremy Collins
(1986)
Top Gun
as Viper
(1986)
SpaceCamp
as Zack
(1986)
The Parent Trap II
as Bill Grand
(1986)
Wisdom
as Lloyd Wisdom
(1986)
Opposing Force
as Logan
(1986)
Miles to Go…
as Stuart Browning
(1984)
Calendar Girl Murders
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
(1984)
A Touch of Scandal
as Father Dwelle
(1983)
The Dead Zone
as Sheriff Bannerman
(1982)
Fighting Back
as John D'Angelo
(1982)
A Dangerous Summer
as Howard Anderson
(1981)
Savage Harvest
as Casey
(1981)
Silence of the North
as Walter Reamer
(1979)
Alien
as Dallas
(1978)
Up in Smoke
as Strawberry
(1978)
Ice Castles
as Marcus Winston
(1978)
Maneaters Are Loose!
as John Gosford
(1977)
The Turning Point
as Wayne
(1976)
Plot of Fear
as Chief Inspector
(1976)
La madama
as Jack
(1975)
The Devil's Rain
as Tom Preston
(1975)
The Last Day
as Bill Powers
(1974)
Big Bad Mama
as Fred
(1974)
Thieves Like Us
as Dee Mobley
(1974)
Run, Run, Joe!
as Margherito
(1973)
The Birdmen
as Orville Fitzgerald
(1972)
Fuzz
as Det. Bert Kling
(1971)
Harold and Maude
as Motorcycle Officer
(1971)
Wild Rovers
as John Buckman
(1970)
M*A*S*H
as Duke Forrest
(1970)
The Moonshine War
as Neighbor (uncredited)
(1967)
A Bell for Adano
as Sgt. Trapani
(1965)
Those Calloways
as Whit Turner
(1965)
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
as Corky Mardis
(1964)
One Man's Way
as Leonard Peale, Grown
(1962)
War Hunt
as Sgt. Stan Showalter
Crew
(2021)
East of the Mountains
Executive Producer
(1997)
Divided by Hate
Director
(1990)
A Question About Sex
Director