Tom Skerritt

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Tom Skerritt

Acting 93 August 25, 1933

Detroit, Michigan, USA

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…

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Alien

Alien

8.2 1979 Movie
Ted

Ted

6.5 2012 Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.5 1962 TV Show
Top Gun

Top Gun

7.1 1986 Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

8.0 1999 TV Show
Contact

Contact

7.4 1997 Movie
Tears of the Sun

Tears of the Sun

6.9 2003 Movie
White Collar

White Collar

8.2 2009 TV Show
The Dead Zone

The Dead Zone

7.0 1983 Movie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

7.3 1993 TV Show
The Good Wife

The Good Wife

7.6 2009 TV Show
The West Wing

The West Wing

8.3 1999 TV Show

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Broke

    Movie Cliff

  2. 2025
    Alien: Terror in Space

    Movie Self - Actor

  3. 2024
    A Look Through His Lens

    Movie Self

  4. 2022
    Going Home

    TV show Vance Baker

  5. 2021
    East of the Mountains

    Movie Ben Givens

  6. 2021
    Catch the Bullet

    Movie Dex

  7. 2019
    The Phantom 52

    Movie The Phantom

  8. 2019
    Memory: The Origins of Alien

    Movie Self

  9. 2017
    Lucky

    Movie Fred

  10. 2017
    Day of Days

    Movie Walter

  11. 2016
    Journey Back to Christmas

    Movie Tobias Cook

  12. 2016
    The American West

    TV show Self

  13. 2016
    A Hologram for the King

    Movie Ron Clay

  14. 2015
    Field of Lost Shoes

    Movie Ulysses S. Grant

  15. 2014
    Madam Secretary

    TV show Patrick McCord

  16. 2014
    The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway

    Movie Narrator (voice)

More credits
  1. 2014
    Wings: Sky Force Heroes

    Movie Colonel (voice)

  2. 2013
    At Middleton

    Movie Roland Emerson

  3. 2013
    Redwood Highway

    Movie Pete Peterson

  4. 2012
    Ted

    Movie Tom Skerritt

  5. 2012
    Soda Springs

    Movie Walt Jackson

  6. 2011
    Redemption Road

    Movie Santa

  7. 2011
    Your Love Never Fails

    Movie Jack Connors

  8. 2011
    Over Hawaii

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  9. 2010
    Soaring Over America

    Movie

  10. 2009
    The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club

    Movie Narrator

  11. 2009
    For Sale by Owner

    Movie Clive Farrier

  12. 2009
    White Collar

    TV show Alan Mitchell

  13. 2009
    Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  14. 2009
    The Good Wife

    TV show James Paisley

  15. 2009
    Whiteout

    Movie Dr. John Fury

  16. 2009
    The Velveteen Rabbit

    Movie Horse (voice)

  17. 2008
    Leverage

    TV show Jimmy Ford

  18. 2008
    Beer for My Horses

    Movie Sheriff Wilson Landry

  19. 2008
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Movie Gabe Utterson

  20. 2008
    The Trojan Horse

    TV show President Stanfield

  21. 2007
    Fallen

    TV show Zeke

  22. 2007
    Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

    TV show Self

  23. 2007
    Killer Wave

    TV show Victor Bannister

  24. 2006
    Brothers and Sisters

    TV show William Walker