Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
8/25/1933
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also Known As
Tom SkerritThomas Roy SkerrittΤομ Σκέριτ
Tom Skerritt
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Skerritt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Alien
as Dallas
Top Gun
as Viper
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
M*A*S*H
as Duke Forrest
Contact
as David Drumlin
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
A River Runs Through It
as Rev. Maclean
Broke
as Cliff
Tears of the Sun
as Captain Bill Rhodes
The Parent Trap II
as Bill Grand
War Hunt
as Sgt. Stan Showalter
Singles
as Mayor Weber
The Birdmen
as Orville Fitzgerald
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
Knight Moves
as Frank Sedman
Ice Castles
as Marcus Winston
Steel Magnolias
as Drum Eatenton
Homeland Security
as Admiral McKee
At Middleton
as Dr. Roland Emerson
Redemption Road
as Santa
Career Timeline
2016
2014
2011
2009
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
as Narrator
For Sale by Owner
as Clive Farrier
White Collar
as Alan Mitchell
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
as Narrator (voice)
The Good Wife
as James Paisley
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Horse (voice)
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2000
1999
1998
1997
1992
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1983
1982
1978
1976
1975
1974
1971
1965
1964
1962
Combat!
as Hicks
Combat!
as Burke
Combat!
as Sgt. Decker
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Frank Farmer
The Virginian
as Eric Kroeger
The Virginian
as Rev. Paul Martinson
The Virginian
as Billy Landers
The Virginian
as Moran
War Hunt
as Sgt. Stan Showalter