Tom Skerritt
Department: Acting
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
A River Runs Through It
1992
M*A*S*H
1970
Contact
1997
Desperation
2006
Top Gun
1986
Poltergeist III
1988
Maid to Order
1987
Steel Magnolias
1989
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991
Fuzz
1972
Singles
1992
The Dead Zone
1983
Whiteout
2009
Path to War
2003
Knight Moves
1992
Savage Harvest
1981
The Rookie
1990
One Man's Way
1964
The Moonshine War
1970
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
Thieves Like Us
1974
For Sale by Owner
2009
War Hunt
1962
Poison Ivy
1992
Tears of the Sun
2003
Texas Rangers
2001
Opposing Force
1986
SpaceCamp
1986
Wisdom
1986
Mammoth
2006
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008
The Velveteen Rabbit
2009
Wild Rovers
1971
Those Calloways
1964
The Turning Point
1977
Plot of Fear
1976
Big Bad Mama
1974
The Devil’s Rain
1975
Bonneville
2006
The Other Sister
1999
Divided by Hate
1997
Fallen
2006
The Parent Trap II
1986
Ice Castles
1978
Changing Hearts
2002
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
High Noon
2000
Ted
2012
The Heist
1989
Redemption Road
2011
A Bell for Adano
1967
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965
Soda Springs
2012
Vinegar Hill
2005
Swing
2003
Fighting Back
1982
Homeland Security
2004
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
Two for Texas
1998
A Dangerous Summer
1982
Calendar Girl Murders
1984
An American Daughter
2000
Child in the Night
1990
The China Lake Murders
1990
Poker Alice
1987
Over California in High Definition
1994
At Middleton
2013
Greenmail
2002
Over Hawaii
2011
Nightmare at Bittercreek
1988
Moving Target
1988
Big Man on Campus
1989
Redwood Highway
2013
Run, Run, Joe!
1974
A Hologram for the King
2016
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009
Red King, White Knight
1989
Broke
2025
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
2014
La madama
1976
Up in Smoke
1978
The Big Town
1987
Silence of the North
1981
Beer for My Horses
2008
The Last Day
1975
She'll Take Romance
1990
Getting Up and Going Home
1992
A Look Through His Lens
2024
Your Love Never Fails
2011
Harold and Maude
1971
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000
Soaring Over America
2010
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
Alien
1979
Field of Lost Shoes
2015
Miles to Go…
1986
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014
A Touch of Scandal
1984
The Alien Saga
2002
Journey Back to Christmas
2016
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009
Lucky
2017
In Sickness and in Health
1992
Honor Bound
1988
Day of Days
2017
Over America
2008
The Phantom 52
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
Smoke Signals
1998
Into the Wild Blue
1999
East of the Mountains
2021
The Birdmen
1973
Catch the Bullet
2021
A Question About Sex
1990
Alien: Terror in Space
2025
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 Fugitive
1963
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
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
The West Wing
1999
Homeland Security
2004
Picket Fences
1992
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Nichols
1971
The F.B.I.
1965
The F.B.I.
1965
The F.B.I.
1965
Combat!
1962
Combat!
1962
The Virginian
1962
The Virginian
1962
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
The Virginian
1962
Danger Bay
1985
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007
The American West
2016
Bonanza
1959
Bonanza
1959
Origins of the Mafia
1976
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Wagon Train
1957
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
12 O'Clock High
1964
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
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