Acting

Tom Skerritt

Born 1933-08-25 · 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 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.

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Broke
as Cliff
2025
Alien: Terror in Space
as Self - Actor
2025
A Look Through His Lens
as Self
2024
Going Home
as Vance Baker
2022
East of the Mountains
as Ben Givens
2021
East of the Mountains
Executive Producer
2021
Catch the Bullet
as Dex
2021
The Phantom 52
as The Phantom
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
2019
Lucky
as Fred
2017
Day of Days
as Walter
2017
Journey Back to Christmas
as Tobias Cook
2016
The American West
as Self
2016
A Hologram for the King
as Ron Clay
2016
Field of Lost Shoes
as Ulysses S. Grant
2015
Madam Secretary
as Patrick McCord
2014
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
as Narrator (voice)
2014
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Colonel (voice)
2014
At Middleton
as Roland Emerson
2013
Redwood Highway
as Pete Peterson
2013
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
2012
Soda Springs
as Walt Jackson
2012
Redemption Road
as Santa
2011
Your Love Never Fails
as Jack Connors
2011
Over Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
2011
Soaring Over America
2010
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
as Narrator
2009
For Sale by Owner
as Clive Farrier
2009
White Collar
as Alan Mitchell
2009
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
as Narrator (voice)
2009
The Good Wife
as James Paisley
2009
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
2009
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Horse (voice)
2009
Leverage
as Jimmy Ford
2008
Beer for My Horses
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
2008
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Gabe Utterson
2008
The Trojan Horse
as President Stanfield
2008
Fallen
as Zeke
2007
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
as Self
2007
Killer Wave
as Victor Bannister
2007
Brothers and Sisters
as William Walker
2006
Bonneville
as Emmett L. Johnson
2006
Fallen
as Zeke
2006
Desperation
as John Edward Marinville
2006
Mammoth
as Simon Abernathy
2006
Category 7: The End of the World
as Colonel Mike Davis
2005
The Closer
as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
2005
Vinegar Hill
as Fritz Grier
2005
Huff
2004
The Grid
2004
Homeland Security
as Admiral McKee
2004
Homeland Security
as Admiral Theodore McKee
2004
The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self
2003
Path to War
as William Westmoreland
2003
Swing
as George Verdi
2003
Tears of the Sun
as Captain Bill Rhodes
2003
The Alien Saga
as Self
2002
Greenmail
as Tom Bradshaw
2002
The Dead Zone
as Herb Smith
2002
Changing Hearts
as Johnny Pinkley
2002
Texas Rangers
as Richard Dukes
2001
History vs. Hollywood
as Self
2001
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000
High Noon
as Will Kane
2000
Backstory
as Self
2000
An American Daughter
as Walter
2000
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Self
2000
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
2000
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
as Thomas Ahearn
1999
The West Wing
as Chris Carrick
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Oliver Taft
1999
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
1999
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
1999
Into the Wild Blue
as Host
1999
The Other Sister
as Radley Tate
1999
Will & Grace
as Dr. Jay Markus
1998
Smoke Signals
as Police Chief
1998
Two for Texas
as Sam Houston
1998
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Norm Jenkins
1997