Tom Skerritt
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.
As actor 182
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The West Wing
1999
The Good Wife
2009
The Closer
2005
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Chicago Hope
1994
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Cheers
1982
Bonanza
1959
Mannix
1967
White Collar
2009
Hawaii Five-O
1969
Will & Grace
1998
Wagon Train
1957
The Fugitive
1963
Tony Awards
1956
Madam Secretary
2014
Brothers and Sisters
2006
The Virginian
1962
The Dead Zone
2002
Cannon
1971
Alien
1979
Baretta
1975
Combat!
1962
The Twilight Zone
1985
Leverage
2008
Run for Your Life
1965
Gunsmoke
1955
The F.B.I.
1965
The Hitchhiker
1983
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007
Top Gun
1986
Ted
2012
Picket Fences
1992
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Real McCoys
1957
Felony Squad
1966
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
The Time Tunnel
1966
Contact
1997
12 O'Clock High
1964
Lancer
1968
Tears of the Sun
2003
Huff
2004
Danger Bay
1985
The Dead Zone
1983
Cimarron Strip
1967
Steel Magnolias
1989
Nichols
1971
The Manhunter
1974
The Outsider
1968
The Rookie
1990
M*A*S*H
1970
Fallen
2007
Singles
1992
A River Runs Through It
1992
S.W.A.T.
1975
Whiteout
2009
Big Bad Mama
1974
Harold and Maude
1971
A Hologram for the King
2016
Get Christie Love!
1974
Origins of the Mafia
1976
Poltergeist III
1988
Poison Ivy
1992
Broke
2025
Up in Smoke
1978
Desperation
2006
Killer Wave
2007
The American West
2016
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Backstory
2000
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
1999
Knight Moves
1992
The Turning Point
1977
Going Home
2022
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
SpaceCamp
1986
Path to War
2003
The Grid
2004
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
Lucky
2017
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
Fallen
2006
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Big Town
1987
The Other Sister
1999
Thieves Like Us
1974
Bonneville
2006
Ice Castles
1978
At Middleton
2013
Fuzz
1972
Over California
1994
Soda Springs
2012
Mammoth
2006
Those Calloways
1964
History vs. Hollywood
2001
Catch the Bullet
2021
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991
The Parent Trap II
1986
The Devil’s Rain
1975
Swing
2003
Maid to Order
1987
East of the Mountains
2021
Ryan's Four
1983
Alien: Terror in Space
2025
The Velveteen Rabbit
2009
Texas Rangers
2001
Your Love Never Fails
2011
Wild Rovers
1971
Category 7: The End of the World
2005
Beer for My Horses
2008
Calendar Girl Murders
1984
Smoke Signals
1998
The Trojan Horse
2008
Field of Lost Shoes
2015
Greenmail
2002
The Moonshine War
1970
Poker Alice
1987
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008
Fighting Back
1982
Child in the Night
1990
Wisdom
1986
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
A Question About Sex
1990
Journey Back to Christmas
2016
The China Lake Murders
1990
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997
Moving Target
1988
Redemption Road
2011
Opposing Force
1986
The Birdmen
1973
Altman on His Own Terms
2000
Plot of Fear
1976
Big Man on Campus
1989
Savage Harvest
1981
For Sale by Owner
2009
War Hunt
1962
A Look Through His Lens
2024
The Alien Saga
2002
Homeland Security
2004
The Heist
1989
One Man's Way
1964
Day of Days
2017
High Noon
2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
Redwood Highway
2013
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
2014
Silence of the North
1981
Changing Hearts
2002
The Last Day
1975
La madama
1976
Two for Texas
1998
Vinegar Hill
2005
Red King, White Knight
1989
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
Homeland Security
2004
A Dangerous Summer
1982
In Sickness and in Health
1992
A Touch of Scandal
1984
Divided by Hate
1997
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965
Getting Up and Going Home
1992
Miles to Go…
1986
Over America
1995
Run, Run, Joe!
1974
Nightmare at Bittercreek
1988
An American Daughter
2000
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000
A Bell for Adano
1967
Honor Bound
1988
Over Hawaii
2011
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
The Phantom 52
2019
She'll Take Romance
1990
Into the Wild Blue
1999
Soaring Over America
2010
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009
