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Tom Skerritt
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Biography
Thomas Roy Skerritt (August 25, 1933 — October 21 2026) was an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. Known for his film roles in M*A*S*H (1970), The Turning Point (1977), Up in Smoke (1978), Alien (1979), The Dead Zone (1983), Top Gun (1986), Steel Magnolias (1989), A River Runs Through It (1992), and the television series Picket Fences (1992–96), Skerritt earned several nominations and awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for the latter.
BODY OF WORK
Tom Skerritt's Filmography
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Broke
as Cliff
Alien: Terror in Space
as Self - Actor
No Poster
A Look Through His Lens
as Self
East of the Mountains
as Ben Givens
Catch the Bullet
as Dex
The Phantom 52
as The Phantom
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
Lucky
as Fred
Day of Days
as Walter
Journey Back to Christmas
as Tobias Cook
A Hologram for the King
as Ron Clay
Field of Lost Shoes
as Ulysses S. Grant
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
as Narrator (voice)
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Colonel (voice)
At Middleton
as Roland Emerson
Redwood Highway
as Pete Peterson
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
Soda Springs
as Walt Jackson
Redemption Road
as Santa
Your Love Never Fails
as Jack Connors
Over Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
Soaring Over America
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
as Narrator
For Sale by Owner
as Clive Farrier
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
as Narrator (voice)
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Horse (voice)
Beer for My Horses
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Gabe Utterson
Bonneville
as Emmett L. Johnson
Fallen
as Zeke
Desperation
as John Edward Marinville
Mammoth
as Simon Abernathy
Vinegar Hill
as Fritz Grier
Homeland Security
as Admiral McKee
The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self
Path to War
as William Westmoreland
Swing
as George Verdi
Tears of the Sun
as Captain Bill Rhodes
The Alien Saga
as Self
Greenmail
as Tom Bradshaw
Changing Hearts
as Johnny Pinkley
Texas Rangers
as Richard Dukes
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
High Noon
as Will Kane
An American Daughter
as Walter
No Poster
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Self
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
Into the Wild Blue
as Host
The Other Sister
as Radley Tate
Smoke Signals
as Police Chief
Two for Texas
as Sam Houston
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Norm Jenkins
Contact
as David Drumlin
Divided by Hate
as Steve Riordan
Over America
Over California
as Narrator (voice)
A River Runs Through It
as Reverend Maclean
Singles
as Mayor Weber
Getting Up and Going Home
as Jack Montgomery
Poison Ivy
as Darryl Cooper
In Sickness and in Health
as Jerritt Mattison
Knight Moves
as Frank Sedman
The Making of 'Alien³'
as Self
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
as Ham McDonald
The Rookie
as Eugene Ackerman
She'll Take Romance
as Judge Warren Danvers
A Question About Sex
as Jim
Child in the Night
as Detective Bass
The China Lake Murders
as Sheriff Sam Brodie
Big Man on Campus
as Dr. Webster
Red King, White Knight
as Stoner
Steel Magnolias
as Drum Eatenton
The Heist
as Ebbet Berens
Poltergeist III
as Bruce Gardner
Nightmare at Bittercreek
as Ding
Moving Target
as Joseph Kellogg
Honor Bound
as Sam Cahill
The Big Town
as Phil Carpenter
Maid to Order
as Charles Montgomery
Poker Alice
as Jeremy Collins
Wisdom
as Lloyd Wisdom
Miles to Go…
as Stuart Browning
Opposing Force
as Logan
The Parent Trap II
as Bill Grand
SpaceCamp
as Zack
Top Gun
as Viper
A Touch of Scandal
as Father Dwelle
Calendar Girl Murders
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
The Dead Zone
as Sheriff Bannerman
A Dangerous Summer
as Howard Anderson
Fighting Back
as John D'Angelo
Silence of the North
as Walter Reamer
Savage Harvest
as Casey
Alien
as Dallas
Ice Castles
as Marcus Winston
Up in Smoke
as Strawberry
Maneaters Are Loose!
as John Gosford
The Turning Point
as Wayne
Plot of Fear
as Chief Inspector
La madama
as Jack
The Devil’s Rain
as Tom Preston
The Last Day
as Bill Powers
Big Bad Mama
as Fred
Run, Run, Joe!
as Margherito
Thieves Like Us
as Dee Mobley
The Birdmen
as Orville Fitzgerald
Fuzz
as Det. Bert Kling
Harold and Maude
as Motorcycle Officer
Wild Rovers
as John Buckman
The Moonshine War
as Neighbor (uncredited)
M*A*S*H
as Duke Forrest
A Bell for Adano
as Sgt. Trapani
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
as Corky Mardis
Those Calloways
as Whit Turner
One Man's Way
as Leonard Peale, Grown
War Hunt
as Sgt. Stan Showalter