Actor
Tom Skerritt
118 movies as actor · 2 as director
Born Aug 25, 1933 (age 93)From Detroit, Michigan, USAAlso known as Tom Skerrit, Thomas Roy Skerritt, Τομ Σκέριτ
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
1979 · Horror, Sci-Fi
Ted
2012 · Comedy, Fantasy
Top Gun
1986 · Action, Drama
Contact
1997 · Drama, Sci-Fi
Tears of the Sun
2003 · War, Action
The Dead Zone
1983 · Thriller, Horror
A Hologram for the King
2016 · Comedy, Drama
Harold and Maude
1971 · Comedy, Drama
A River Runs Through It
1992 · Drama
M*A*S*H
1970 · Comedy, Drama
Whiteout
2009 · Action, Crime
Steel Magnolias
1989 · Drama, Comedy
Tom Skerritt movies
Broke
2025 · Cliff
Alien: Terror in Space
2025 · Self - Actor
A Look Through His Lens
A Look Through His Lens
2024 · Self
East of the Mountains
2021 · Ben Givens
Catch the Bullet
2021 · Dex
The Phantom 52
2019 · The Phantom
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019 · Self
Lucky
2017 · Fred
Day of Days
2017 · Walter
Journey Back to Christmas
2016 · Tobias Cook
A Hologram for the King
2016 · Ron Clay
Field of Lost Shoes
2015 · Ulysses S. Grant
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014 · Narrator (voice)
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
2014 · Colonel (voice)
At Middleton
2013 · Roland Emerson
Redwood Highway
2013 · Pete Peterson
Ted
2012 · Tom Skerritt
Soda Springs
2012 · Walt Jackson
Redemption Road
2011 · Santa
Your Love Never Fails
2011 · Jack Connors
Over Hawaii
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Soaring Over America
2010
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009 · Narrator
For Sale by Owner
2009 · Clive Farrier
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009 · Narrator (voice)
Whiteout
2009 · Dr. John Fury
The Velveteen Rabbit
2009 · Horse (voice)
Beer for My Horses
2008 · Sheriff Wilson Landry
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008 · Gabe Utterson
Bonneville
2006 · Emmett L. Johnson
Fallen
2006 · Zeke
Desperation
2006 · John Edward Marinville
Mammoth
2006 · Simon Abernathy
Vinegar Hill
2005 · Fritz Grier
Homeland Security
2004 · Admiral McKee
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003 · Self
Path to War
2003 · William Westmoreland
Swing
2003 · George Verdi
Tears of the Sun
2003 · Captain Bill Rhodes
The Alien Saga
2002 · Self
Greenmail
2002 · Tom Bradshaw
Changing Hearts
2002 · Johnny Pinkley
Texas Rangers
2001 · Richard Dukes
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000 · Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
High Noon
2000 · Will Kane
An American Daughter
2000 · Walter
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000 · Self
Altman on His Own Terms
2000 · Self
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999 · Fred Maddux
Into the Wild Blue
1999 · Host
The Other Sister
1999 · Radley Tate
Smoke Signals
1998 · Police Chief
Two for Texas
1998 · Sam Houston
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997 · Norm Jenkins
Contact
1997 · David Drumlin
Divided by Hate
1997 · Steve Riordan
Over America
1995
Over California
1994 · Narrator (voice)
A River Runs Through It
1992 · Reverend Maclean
Singles
1992 · Mayor Weber
Getting Up and Going Home
1992 · Jack Montgomery
Poison Ivy
1992 · Darryl Cooper
In Sickness and in Health
1992 · Jerritt Mattison
Knight Moves
1992 · Frank Sedman
The Making of 'Alien³'
1992 · Self
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991 · Ham McDonald
The Rookie
1990 · Eugene Ackerman
She'll Take Romance
1990 · Judge Warren Danvers
A Question About Sex
1990 · Jim
Child in the Night
1990 · Detective Bass
The China Lake Murders
1990 · Sheriff Sam Brodie
Big Man on Campus
1989 · Dr. Webster
Red King, White Knight
1989 · Stoner
Steel Magnolias
1989 · Drum Eatenton
The Heist
1989 · Ebbet Berens
Poltergeist III
1988 · Bruce Gardner
Nightmare at Bittercreek
1988 · Ding
Moving Target
1988 · Joseph Kellogg
Honor Bound
1988 · Sam Cahill
The Big Town
1987 · Phil Carpenter
Maid to Order
1987 · Charles Montgomery
Poker Alice
1987 · Jeremy Collins
Wisdom
1986 · Lloyd Wisdom
Miles to Go…
1986 · Stuart Browning
Opposing Force
1986 · Logan
The Parent Trap II
1986 · Bill Grand
SpaceCamp
1986 · Zack
Top Gun
1986 · Viper
A Touch of Scandal
1984 · Father Dwelle
Calendar Girl Murders
1984 · Lieutenant Dan Stoner
The Dead Zone
1983 · Sheriff Bannerman
A Dangerous Summer
1982 · Howard Anderson
Fighting Back
1982 · John D'Angelo
Silence of the North
1981 · Walter Reamer
Savage Harvest
1981 · Casey
Alien
1979 · Dallas
Ice Castles
1978 · Marcus Winston
Up in Smoke
1978 · Strawberry
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978 · John Gosford
The Turning Point
1977 · Wayne
Plot of Fear
1976 · Chief Inspector
La madama
1976 · Jack
The Devil’s Rain
1975 · Tom Preston
The Last Day
1975 · Bill Powers
Big Bad Mama
1974 · Fred
Run, Run, Joe!
1974 · Margherito
Thieves Like Us
1974 · Dee Mobley
The Birdmen
1973 · Orville Fitzgerald
Fuzz
1972 · Det. Bert Kling
Harold and Maude
1971 · Motorcycle Officer
Wild Rovers
1971 · John Buckman
The Moonshine War
1970 · Neighbor (uncredited)
M*A*S*H
1970 · Duke Forrest
A Bell for Adano
1967 · Sgt. Trapani
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965 · Corky Mardis
Those Calloways
1964 · Whit Turner
One Man's Way
1964 · Leonard Peale, Grown
War Hunt
1962 · Sgt. Stan Showalter
Directed by Tom Skerritt
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