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