Tom Skerritt
Acting • Born 1933-08-25
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.
Filmography
200 credits
A River Runs Through It
Movie • 1992
Rev. Maclean
M*A*S*H
Movie • 1970
Duke Forrest
Contact
Movie • 1997
David Drumlin
Desperation
Movie • 2006
John Edward Marinville
Top Gun
Movie • 1986
Viper
Poltergeist III
Movie • 1988
Bruce Gardner
Maid to Order
Movie • 1987
Charles Montgomery
Steel Magnolias
Movie • 1989
Drum Eatenton
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
Movie • 1991
Ham McDonald
Fuzz
Movie • 1972
Det. Bert Kling
Singles
Movie • 1992
Mayor Weber
The Dead Zone
Movie • 1983
Sheriff Bannerman
Whiteout
Movie • 2009
Dr. John Fury
Path to War
Movie • 2003
William Westmoreland
Knight Moves
Movie • 1992
Frank Sedman
Savage Harvest
Movie • 1981
Casey
The Rookie
Movie • 1990
Eugene Ackerman
One Man's Way
Movie • 1964
Leonard Peale, Grown
The Moonshine War
Movie • 1970
Neighbor (uncredited)
Maneaters Are Loose!
Movie • 1978
John Gosford
Thieves Like Us
Movie • 1974
Dee Mobley
For Sale by Owner
Movie • 2009
Clive Farrier
War Hunt
Movie • 1962
Sgt. Stan Showalter
Poison Ivy
Movie • 1992
Darryl Cooper
Tears of the Sun
Movie • 2003
Captain Bill Rhodes
Texas Rangers
Movie • 2001
Richard Dukes
Opposing Force
Movie • 1986
Logan
SpaceCamp
Movie • 1986
Zack
Wisdom
Movie • 1986
Lloyd Wisdom
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 2008
Gabe Utterson
Mammoth
Movie • 2006
Simon Abernathy
The Velveteen Rabbit
Movie • 2009
Horse (voice)
Wild Rovers
Movie • 1971
John Buckman
Those Calloways
Movie • 1964
Whit Turner
The Turning Point
Movie • 1977
Wayne
Plot of Fear
Movie • 1976
Chief Inspector
Big Bad Mama
Movie • 1974
Fred
The Devil’s Rain
Movie • 1975
Tom Preston
Bonneville
Movie • 2006
Emmett L. Johnson
The Other Sister
Movie • 1999
Radley Tate
Divided by Hate
Movie • 1997
Steve Riordan
Fallen
Movie • 2006
Zeke
The Parent Trap II
Movie • 1986
Bill Grand
Ice Castles
Movie • 1978
Marcus Winston
Changing Hearts
Movie • 2002
Johnny Pinkley
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Movie • 2003
Self
High Noon
Movie • 2000
Will Kane
Ted
Movie • 2012
Tom Skerritt
The Heist
Movie • 1989
Ebbet Berens
Redemption Road
Movie • 2011
Santa
A Bell for Adano
Movie • 1967
Sgt. Trapani
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
Movie • 1965
Corky Mardis
Soda Springs
Movie • 2012
Walt Jackson
Vinegar Hill
Movie • 2005
Fritz Grier
Swing
Movie • 2003
George Verdi
Fighting Back
Movie • 1982
John D'Angelo
Homeland Security
Movie • 2004
Admiral McKee
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Movie • 1999
Fred Maddux
Two for Texas
Movie • 1998
Sam Houston
A Dangerous Summer
Movie • 1982
Howard Anderson
Calendar Girl Murders
Movie • 1984
Lieutenant Dan Stoner
An American Daughter
Movie • 2000
Walter
Child in the Night
Movie • 1990
Detective Bass
The China Lake Murders
Movie • 1990
Sheriff Sam Brodie
Poker Alice
Movie • 1987
Jeremy Collins
Over California in High Definition
Movie • 1994
Narrator (voice)
At Middleton
Movie • 2013
Dr. Roland Emerson
Greenmail
Movie • 2002
Tom Bradshaw
Over Hawaii
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
Nightmare at Bittercreek
Movie • 1988
Ding
Moving Target
Movie • 1988
Joseph Kellogg
Big Man on Campus
Movie • 1989
Dr. Webster
Redwood Highway
Movie • 2013
Pete Peterson
Run, Run, Joe!
Movie • 1974
Margherito
A Hologram for the King
Movie • 2016
Ron Clay
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Movie • 2009
Narrator (voice)
Red King, White Knight
Movie • 1989
Stoner
Broke
Movie • 2025
Cliff
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
Movie • 2014
Colonel (voice)
La madama
Movie • 1976
Jack
Up in Smoke
Movie • 1978
Strawberry
The Big Town
Movie • 1987
Phil Carpenter
Silence of the North
Movie • 1981
Walter Reamer
Beer for My Horses
Movie • 2008
Sheriff Wilson Landry
The Last Day
Movie • 1975
Bill Powers
She'll Take Romance
Movie • 1990
Judge Warren Danvers
Getting Up and Going Home
Movie • 1992
Jack Montgomery
Your Love Never Fails
Movie • 2011
Jack Connors
A Look Through His Lens
Movie • 2024
Self
Harold and Maude
Movie • 1971
Motorcycle Officer
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Movie • 2000
Self
Soaring Over America
Movie • 2010
What the Deaf Man Heard
Movie • 1997
Norm Jenkins
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Movie • 2000
Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
Alien
Movie • 1979
Dallas
Field of Lost Shoes
Movie • 2015
Ulysses S. Grant
Miles to Go…
Movie • 1986
Stuart Browning
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
Movie • 2014
Narrator (voice)
A Touch of Scandal
Movie • 1984
Father Dwelle
The Alien Saga
Movie • 2002
Self
Journey Back to Christmas
Movie • 2016
Tobias Cook
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
Movie • 2009
Narrator
Category 7: The End of the World
Movie • 2005
Colonel Mike Davis
Lucky
Movie • 2017
Fred
In Sickness and in Health
Movie • 1992
Jerritt Mattison
Honor Bound
Movie • 1988
Sam Cahill
Day of Days
Movie • 2017
Walter
Over America
Movie • 2008
The Phantom 52
Movie • 2019
The Phantom
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Movie • 2019
Self
Smoke Signals
Movie • 1998
Police Chief
Into the Wild Blue
Movie • 1999
Host
East of the Mountains
Movie • 2021
Ben Givens
The Birdmen
Movie • 1973
Orville Fitzgerald
Catch the Bullet
Movie • 2021
Dex
A Question About Sex
Movie • 1990
Jim
Alien: Terror in Space
Movie • 2025
Self - Actor
Altman on His Own Terms
Movie • 2000
Self
The Time Tunnel
TV • 1966
Matthew Gebhardt
Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006
William Walker
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Robert Hastings
Huff
TV • 2004
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "What Are Friends For?")
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Lew Morgan
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Baretta
TV • 1975
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Oliver Taft
Mannix
TV • 1967
Morgan Carpenter
History vs. Hollywood
TV • 2001
Self
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Edmund Dano
Combat!
TV • 1962
Hicks
Cannon
TV • 1971
Bud
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
Dr. Jay Markus
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Norm Jenkins
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Jim Kellner
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Viper (archive footage)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV • 1974
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Lou Patterson
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Neely Hollister
S.W.A.T.
TV • 1975
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Eric Kroeger
Lancer
TV • 1968
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Pete Edwards
The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Detective Frank Sheen
The Grid
TV • 2004
The Manhunter
TV • 1974
The Trojan Horse
TV • 2008
President Stanfield
Get Christie Love!
TV • 1974
Fallen
TV • 2007
Zeke
Ryan's Four
TV • 1983
Dr. Thomas Ryan
Killer Wave
TV • 2007
Victor Bannister
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Lt. Paddy Gialella
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
TV • 1999
Thomas Ahearn
White Collar
TV • 2009
Alan Mitchell
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV • 1974
Robert W. Palmer
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Chris Carrick
Homeland Security
TV • 2004
Admiral Theodore McKee
Picket Fences
TV • 1992
Jimmy Brock
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Corky Mardis
Nichols
TV • 1971
Charley Doyle
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
John Clarence Rim
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Thorn Hazard
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Bill Leonard
Combat!
TV • 1962
Burke
Combat!
TV • 1962
Sgt. Decker
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Rev. Paul Martinson
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Billy Landers
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Ben Stone
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Orv Timpson
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Fred Garth
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Tuck Frye
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Moran
Danger Bay
TV • 1985
Don Bared
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
TV • 2007
Self
The American West
TV • 2016
Self
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Jerry
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Corporal Bill Tanner
Origins of the Mafia
TV • 1976
Bernardino Campo
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Hamish Browne
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
TV • 1999
Fred Maddux
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Lt. Steve Parmalee
Category 7: The End of the World
TV • 2005
Colonel Mike Davis
Leverage
TV • 2008
Jimmy Ford
Cheers
TV • 1982
Evan Drake
The Closer
TV • 2005
Det. Joey 'O' Olin
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Frank Farmer
The Real McCoys
TV • 1957
Mailman
Backstory
TV • 2000
Self
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
James Paisley
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self
The Dead Zone
TV • 2002
Herb Smith
Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Patrick McCord
The Outsider
TV • 1968
Arnie Cambor
Cimarron Strip
TV • 1967
Enoch Shelton
Going Home
TV • 2022
Vance Baker
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
TV • 2000
Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy