Tom Skerritt
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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
Alien (1979)
as Dallas
Top Gun (1986)
as Viper
Ted (2012)
as Tom Skerritt
Contact (1997)
as David Drumlin
Steel Magnolias (1989)
as Drum Eatenton
Tears of the Sun (2003)
as Captain Bill Rhodes
A River Runs Through It (1992)
as Reverend Maclean
The Dead Zone (1983)
as Sheriff Bannerman
M*A*S*H (1970)
as Duke Forrest
A Hologram for the King (2016)
as Ron Clay
The Rookie (1990)
as Eugene Ackerman
Whiteout (2009)
as Dr. John Fury
Desperation (2006)
as John Edward Marinville
Broke (2025)
as Cliff
Big Bad Mama (1974)
as Fred
Poison Ivy (1992)
as Darryl Cooper
Harold and Maude (1971)
as Motorcycle Officer
Up in Smoke (1978)
as Strawberry
Poltergeist III (1988)
as Bruce Gardner
Knight Moves (1992)
as Frank Sedman
Path to War (2003)
as William Westmoreland
Singles (1992)
as Mayor Weber
SpaceCamp (1986)
as Zack
Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
as Self
Thieves Like Us (1974)
as Dee Mobley
Texas Rangers (2001)
as Richard Dukes
The Other Sister (1999)
as Radley Tate
The Velveteen Rabbit (2009)
as Horse (voice)
The Devil’s Rain (1975)
as Tom Preston
The Turning Point (1977)
as Wayne
Lucky (2017)
as Fred
At Middleton (2013)
as Dr. Roland Emerson
The Big Town (1987)
as Phil Carpenter
Maid to Order (1987)
as Charles Montgomery
Fallen (2006)
as Zeke
Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
as Ulysses S. Grant
Your Love Never Fails (2011)
as Jack Connors
Calendar Girl Murders (1984)
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
Ice Castles (1978)
as Marcus Winston
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991)
as Ham McDonald
East of the Mountains (2021)
as Ben Givens
Catch the Bullet (2021)
as Dex
Poker Alice (1987)
as Jeremy Collins
Bonneville (2006)
as Emmett L. Johnson
Wisdom (1986)
as Lloyd Wisdom
Mammoth (2006)
as Simon Abernathy
Soda Springs (2012)
as Walt Jackson
Fuzz (1972)
as Det. Bert Kling
Smoke Signals (1998)
as Police Chief
The Parent Trap II (1986)
as Bill Grand
Those Calloways (1964)
as Whit Turner
Greenmail (2002)
as Tom Bradshaw
The Heist (1989)
as Ebbet Berens
Fighting Back (1982)
as John D'Angelo
War Hunt (1962)
as Sgt. Stan Showalter
Journey Back to Christmas (2016)
as Tobias Cook
Wild Rovers (1971)
as John Buckman
Child in the Night (1990)
as Detective Bass
Savage Harvest (1981)
as Casey
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2008)
as Gabe Utterson
Opposing Force (1986)
as Logan
Vinegar Hill (2005)
as Fritz Grier
Moving Target (1988)
as Joseph Kellogg
Alien: Terror in Space (2025)
as Self - Actor
Redemption Road (2011)
as Santa
High Noon (2000)
as Will Kane
What the Deaf Man Heard (1997)
as Norm Jenkins
Plot of Fear (1976)
as Chief Inspector
Getting Up and Going Home (1992)
as Jack Montgomery
Altman on His Own Terms (2000)
as Self
The Moonshine War (1970)
as Neighbor (uncredited)
Two for Texas (1998)
as Sam Houston
The Further Adventures of Gallegher (1965)
as Corky Mardis
Swing (2003)
as George Verdi
Big Man on Campus (1989)
as Dr. Webster
Changing Hearts (2002)
as Johnny Pinkley
The Last Day (1975)
as Bill Powers
Beer for My Horses (2008)
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
Homeland Security (2004)
as Admiral McKee
The Alien Saga (2002)
as Self
Nightmare at Bittercreek (1988)
as Ding
The Beast Within: Making Alien (2003)
as Self
A Look Through His Lens (2024)
as Self
Red King, White Knight (1989)
as Stoner
Miles to Go… (1986)
as Stuart Browning
An American Daughter (2000)
as Walter
The Birdmen (1973)
as Orville Fitzgerald
A Question About Sex (1990)
as Jim
Run, Run, Joe! (1974)
as Margherito
For Sale by Owner (2009)
as Clive Farrier
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (2000)
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
Maneaters Are Loose! (1978)
as John Gosford
Silence of the North (1981)
as Walter Reamer
Over California (1994)
as Narrator (voice)
Honor Bound (1988)
as Sam Cahill
Wings: Sky Force Heroes (2014)
as Colonel (voice)
Redwood Highway (2013)
as Pete Peterson
The China Lake Murders (1990)
as Sheriff Sam Brodie
One Man's Way (1964)
as Leonard Peale, Grown
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999)
as Fred Maddux
La madama (1976)
as Jack
A Bell for Adano (1967)
as Sgt. Trapani
In Sickness and in Health (1992)
as Jerritt Mattison
Divided by Hate (1997)
as Steve Riordan
A Touch of Scandal (1984)
as Father Dwelle
A Dangerous Summer (1982)
as Howard Anderson
The Phantom 52 (2019)
as The Phantom
She'll Take Romance (1990)
as Judge Warren Danvers
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club (2009)
as Narrator
Over America (1995)
Actor
Day of Days (2017)
as Walter
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' (2000)
as Self
Into the Wild Blue (1999)
as Host
Over Hawaii (2011)
as Narrator (voice)
Soaring Over America (2010)
Actor
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (2009)
as Narrator (voice)
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway (2014)
as Narrator (voice)