Tom Skerritt

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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

Alien

Dallas

Ted

Tom Skerritt

Top Gun

Viper

Contact

David Drumlin

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Oliver Taft

Tears of the Sun

Captain Bill Rhodes

The Dead Zone

Sheriff Bannerman

White Collar

Alan Mitchell

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	Broke MOVIE	Cliff
2025	Alien: Terror in Space MOVIE	Self - Actor
2024	A Look Through His Lens MOVIE	Self
2022	Going Home TV	Vance Baker
2021	East of the Mountains MOVIE	Ben Givens
2021	Catch the Bullet MOVIE	Dex
2019	The Phantom 52 MOVIE	The Phantom
2019	Memory: The Origins of Alien MOVIE	Self
2017	Lucky MOVIE	Fred
2017	Day of Days MOVIE	Walter
2016	Journey Back to Christmas MOVIE	Tobias Cook
2016	The American West TV	Self
2016	A Hologram for the King MOVIE	Ron Clay
2015	Field of Lost Shoes MOVIE	Ulysses S. Grant
2014	Madam Secretary TV	Patrick McCord
2014	The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2014	Wings: Sky Force Heroes MOVIE	Colonel (voice)
2013	At Middleton MOVIE	Dr. Roland Emerson
2013	Redwood Highway MOVIE	Pete Peterson
2012	Ted MOVIE	Tom Skerritt
2012	Soda Springs MOVIE	Walt Jackson
2011	Redemption Road MOVIE	Santa
2011	Your Love Never Fails MOVIE	Jack Connors
2011	Over Hawaii MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2010	Soaring Over America MOVIE	Self
2009	The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club MOVIE	Narrator
2009	For Sale by Owner MOVIE	Clive Farrier
2009	White Collar TV	Alan Mitchell
2009	Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2009	The Good Wife TV	James Paisley
2009	Whiteout MOVIE	Dr. John Fury
2009	The Velveteen Rabbit MOVIE	Horse (voice)
2008	Leverage TV	Jimmy Ford
2008	Beer for My Horses MOVIE	Sheriff Wilson Landry
2008	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde MOVIE	Gabe Utterson
2008	The Trojan Horse TV	President Stanfield
2008	Over America MOVIE	Self
2007	Fallen TV	Zeke
2007	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! TV	Self
2007	Killer Wave TV	Victor Bannister
2006	Brothers and Sisters TV	William Walker
2006	Bonneville MOVIE	Emmett L. Johnson
2006	Fallen MOVIE	Zeke
2006	Desperation MOVIE	John Edward Marinville
2006	Mammoth MOVIE	Simon Abernathy
2005	Category 7: The End of the World TV	Colonel Mike Davis
2005	The Colbert Report TV	Viper (archive footage)
2005	The Closer TV	Det. Joey 'O' Olin
2005	Vinegar Hill MOVIE	Fritz Grier
2004	Huff TV	Self
2004	The Grid TV	Self
2004	Homeland Security MOVIE	Admiral McKee
2004	Homeland Security TV	Admiral Theodore McKee
2003	The Beast Within: Making Alien MOVIE	Self
2003	Path to War MOVIE	William Westmoreland
2003	Swing MOVIE	George Verdi
2003	Tears of the Sun MOVIE	Captain Bill Rhodes
2002	The Alien Saga MOVIE	Self
2002	Greenmail MOVIE	Tom Bradshaw
2002	The Dead Zone TV	Herb Smith
2002	Changing Hearts MOVIE	Johnny Pinkley
2001	Texas Rangers MOVIE	Richard Dukes
2001	History vs. Hollywood TV	Self
2000	Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis TV	Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000	Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis MOVIE	Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000	High Noon MOVIE	Will Kane
2000	Backstory TV	Self
2000	An American Daughter MOVIE	Walter
2000	Enlisted: The Story of 'MAS*H' MOVIE	Self
2000	Altman on His Own Terms MOVIE	Self
1999	Aftershock: Earthquake in New York TV	Thomas Ahearn
1999	The West Wing TV	Chris Carrick
1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit TV	Oliver Taft
1999	The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer MOVIE	Fred Maddux
1999	The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer TV	Fred Maddux
1999	Into the Wild Blue MOVIE	Host
1999	The Other Sister MOVIE	Radley Tate
1998	Will & Grace TV	Dr. Jay Markus
1998	Smoke Signals MOVIE	Police Chief
1998	Two for Texas MOVIE	Sam Houston
1997	What the Deaf Man Heard MOVIE	Norm Jenkins
1997	Contact MOVIE	David Drumlin
1997	Divided by Hate MOVIE	Steve Riordan
1996	E! True Hollywood Story TV	Self
1994	Chicago Hope TV	Jim Kellner
1994	Over California in High Definition MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien TV	Self - Guest
1992	A River Runs Through It MOVIE	Rev. Maclean
1992	Singles MOVIE	Mayor Weber
1992	Picket Fences TV	Jimmy Brock
1992	Getting Up and Going Home MOVIE	Jack Montgomery
1992	Poison Ivy MOVIE	Darryl Cooper
1992	In Sickness and in Health MOVIE	Jerritt Mattison
1992	Knight Moves MOVIE	Frank Sedman
1991	Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue MOVIE	Ham McDonald
1990	The Rookie MOVIE	Eugene Ackerman
1990	She'll Take Romance MOVIE	Judge Warren Danvers
1990	A Question About Sex MOVIE	Jim
1990	Child in the Night MOVIE	Detective Bass
1990	The China Lake Murders MOVIE	Sheriff Sam Brodie
1989	Big Man on Campus MOVIE	Dr. Webster
1989	Red King, White Knight MOVIE	Stoner
1989	Steel Magnolias MOVIE	Drum Eatenton
1989	The Heist MOVIE	Ebbet Berens
1988	Poltergeist III MOVIE	Bruce Gardner
1988	Nightmare at Bittercreek MOVIE	Ding
1988	Moving Target MOVIE	Joseph Kellogg
1988	Honor Bound MOVIE	Sam Cahill
1987	The Big Town MOVIE	Phil Carpenter
1987	Maid to Order MOVIE	Charles Montgomery
1987	Poker Alice MOVIE	Jeremy Collins
1986	Wisdom MOVIE	Lloyd Wisdom
1986	Miles to Go… MOVIE	Stuart Browning
1986	Opposing Force MOVIE	Logan
1986	The Parent Trap II MOVIE	Bill Grand
1986	SpaceCamp MOVIE	Zack
1986	Top Gun MOVIE	Viper
1985	Danger Bay TV	Don Bared
1985	The Twilight Zone TV	(segment "What Are Friends For?")
1984	A Touch of Scandal MOVIE	Father Dwelle
1984	Calendar Girl Murders MOVIE	Lieutenant Dan Stoner
1983	The Hitchhiker TV	Detective Frank Sheen
1983	The Dead Zone MOVIE	Sheriff Bannerman
1983	Ryan's Four TV	Dr. Thomas Ryan
1982	A Dangerous Summer MOVIE	Howard Anderson
1982	Cheers TV	Evan Drake
1982	Fighting Back MOVIE	John D'Angelo
1981	Silence of the North MOVIE	Walter Reamer
1981	Savage Harvest MOVIE	Casey
1979	Alien MOVIE	Dallas
1978	Ice Castles MOVIE	Marcus Winston
1978	Up in Smoke MOVIE	Strawberry
1978	Maneaters Are Loose! MOVIE	John Gosford
1977	The Turning Point MOVIE	Wayne
1976	Origins of the Mafia TV	Bernardino Campo
1976	Plot of Fear MOVIE	Chief Inspector
1976	La madama MOVIE	Jack
1975	The Devil’s Rain MOVIE	Tom Preston
1975	S.W.A.T. TV	Self
1975	The Last Day MOVIE	Bill Powers
1975	Baretta TV	Self
1974	Big Bad Mama MOVIE	Fred
1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV	Self
1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV	Robert W. Palmer
1974	The Manhunter TV	Self
1974	Run, Run, Joe! MOVIE	Margherito
1974	Thieves Like Us MOVIE	Dee Mobley
1974	Get Christie Love! TV	Self
1973	The Birdmen MOVIE	Orville Fitzgerald
1972	Fuzz MOVIE	Det. Bert Kling
1971	Harold and Maude MOVIE	Motorcycle Officer
1971	Nichols TV	Charley Doyle
1971	Cannon TV	Bud
1971	Wild Rovers MOVIE	John Buckman
1970	The Moonshine War MOVIE	Neighbor (uncredited)
1970	MAS*H MOVIE	Duke Forrest
1968	Lancer TV	Self
1968	Hawaii Five-O TV	Lew Morgan
1968	The Outsider TV	Arnie Cambor
1967	A Bell for Adano MOVIE	Sgt. Trapani
1967	Mannix TV	Morgan Carpenter
1967	Cimarron Strip TV	Enoch Shelton
1966	Felony Squad TV	Self
1966	The Time Tunnel TV	Matthew Gebhardt
1965	The Further Adventures of Gallegher MOVIE	Corky Mardis
1965	The F.B.I. TV	Robert Hastings
1965	The F.B.I. TV	John Clarence Rim
1965	The F.B.I. TV	Thorn Hazard
1965	The F.B.I. TV	Bill Leonard
1965	Run for Your Life TV	Lou Patterson
1964	Those Calloways MOVIE	Whit Turner
1964	12 O'Clock High TV	Lt. Paddy Gialella
1964	12 O'Clock High TV	Lt. Steve Parmalee
1964	One Man's Way MOVIE	Leonard Peale, Grown
1963	The Fugitive TV	Neely Hollister
1963	The Fugitive TV	Pete Edwards
1962	Combat! TV	Hicks
1962	Combat! TV	Burke
1962	Combat! TV	Sgt. Decker
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV	Self
1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour TV	Frank Farmer
1962	The Virginian TV	Eric Kroeger
1962	The Virginian TV	Rev. Paul Martinson
1962	The Virginian TV	Billy Landers
1962	The Virginian TV	Moran
1962	War Hunt MOVIE	Sgt. Stan Showalter
1959	Bonanza TV	Jerry
1959	Bonanza TV	Corporal Bill Tanner
1957	The Real McCoys TV	Mailman
1957	Wagon Train TV	Hamish Browne
1956	Tony Awards TV	Self - Presenter
1955	Gunsmoke TV	Edmund Dano
1955	Gunsmoke TV	Ben Stone
1955	Gunsmoke TV	Orv Timpson
1955	Gunsmoke TV	Fred Garth
1955	Gunsmoke TV	Tuck Frye
1954	The Wonderful World of Disney TV	Corky Mardis
1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame TV	Norm Jenkins
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self - Nominee
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self

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