Tom Skerritt
Acting
1933-08-25 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
Filmography
Broke
2025 · Movie
Alien: Terror in Space
2025 · Movie
A Look Through His Lens
2024 · Movie
Going Home
2022 · Series
East of the Mountains
2021 · Movie
Catch the Bullet
2021 · Movie
The Phantom 52
2019 · Movie
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019 · Movie
Lucky
2017 · Movie
Day of Days
2017 · Movie
Journey Back to Christmas
2016 · Movie
The American West
2016 · Series
A Hologram for the King
2016 · Movie
Field of Lost Shoes
2015 · Movie
Madam Secretary
2014 · Series
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014 · Movie
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
2014 · Movie
At Middleton
2013 · Movie
Redwood Highway
2013 · Movie
Ted
2012 · Movie
Soda Springs
2012 · Movie
Redemption Road
2011 · Movie
Your Love Never Fails
2011 · Movie
Over Hawaii
2011 · Movie
Soaring Over America
2010 · Movie
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009 · Movie
For Sale by Owner
2009 · Movie
White Collar
2009 · Series
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009 · Movie
The Good Wife
2009 · Series
Whiteout
2009 · Movie
The Velveteen Rabbit
2009 · Movie
Leverage
2008 · Series
Beer for My Horses
2008 · Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008 · Movie
The Trojan Horse
2008 · Series
Fallen
2007 · Series
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007 · Series
Killer Wave
2007 · Series
Brothers and Sisters
2006 · Series
Bonneville
2006 · Movie
Fallen
2006 · Movie
Desperation
2006 · Movie
Mammoth
2006 · Movie
Category 7: The End of the World
2005 · Series
The Closer
2005 · Series
Vinegar Hill
2005 · Movie
Huff
2004 · Series
The Grid
2004 · Series
Homeland Security
2004 · Series
Homeland Security
2004 · Movie
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003 · Movie
Path to War
2003 · Movie
Swing
2003 · Movie
Tears of the Sun
2003 · Movie
The Alien Saga
2002 · Movie
Greenmail
2002 · Movie
The Dead Zone
2002 · Series
Changing Hearts
2002 · Movie
Texas Rangers
2001 · Movie
History vs. Hollywood
2001 · Series
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000 · Series
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000 · Movie
High Noon
2000 · Movie
Backstory
2000 · Series
An American Daughter
2000 · Movie
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000 · Movie
Altman on His Own Terms
2000 · Movie
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
1999 · Series
The West Wing
1999 · Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999 · Series
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999 · Movie
Into the Wild Blue
1999 · Movie
The Other Sister
1999 · Movie
Will & Grace
1998 · Series
Smoke Signals
1998 · Movie
Two for Texas
1998 · Movie
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997 · Movie
Contact
1997 · Movie
Divided by Hate
1997 · Movie
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
Over America
1995 · Movie
Chicago Hope
1994 · Series
Over California
1994 · Movie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
A River Runs Through It
1992 · Movie
Picket Fences
1992 · Series
Singles
1992 · Movie
Getting Up and Going Home
1992 · Movie
Poison Ivy
1992 · Movie
In Sickness and in Health
1992 · Movie
Knight Moves
1992 · Movie
The Making of 'Alien³'
1992 · Movie
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991 · Movie
The Rookie
1990 · Movie
She'll Take Romance
1990 · Movie
A Question About Sex
1990 · Movie
Child in the Night
1990 · Movie
The China Lake Murders
1990 · Movie
Big Man on Campus
1989 · Movie
Red King, White Knight
1989 · Movie
Steel Magnolias
1989 · Movie
The Heist
1989 · Movie
Poltergeist III
1988 · Movie
Nightmare at Bittercreek
1988 · Movie
Moving Target
1988 · Movie
Honor Bound
1988 · Movie
The Big Town
1987 · Movie
Maid to Order
1987 · Movie
Poker Alice
1987 · Movie
Wisdom
1986 · Movie
Miles to Go…
1986 · Movie
Opposing Force
1986 · Movie
The Parent Trap II
1986 · Movie
SpaceCamp
1986 · Movie
Top Gun
1986 · Movie
Danger Bay
1985 · Series
The Twilight Zone
1985 · Series
A Touch of Scandal
1984 · Movie
Calendar Girl Murders
1984 · Movie
The Hitchhiker
1983 · Series
The Dead Zone
1983 · Movie
Ryan's Four
1983 · Series
A Dangerous Summer
1982 · Movie
Cheers
1982 · Series
Fighting Back
1982 · Movie
Silence of the North
1981 · Movie
Savage Harvest
1981 · Movie
Alien
1979 · Movie
Ice Castles
1978 · Movie
Up in Smoke
1978 · Movie
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978 · Movie
The Turning Point
1977 · Movie
Origins of the Mafia
1976 · Series
Plot of Fear
1976 · Movie
La madama
1976 · Movie
The Devil’s Rain
1975 · Movie
S.W.A.T.
1975 · Series
The Last Day
1975 · Movie
Baretta
1975 · Series
Big Bad Mama
1974 · Movie
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974 · Series
The Manhunter
1974 · Series
Run, Run, Joe!
1974 · Movie
Thieves Like Us
1974 · Movie
Get Christie Love!
1974 · Series
The Birdmen
1973 · Movie
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · Series
Fuzz
1972 · Movie
Harold and Maude
1971 · Movie
Nichols
1971 · Series
Cannon
1971 · Series
Wild Rovers
1971 · Movie
The Moonshine War
1970 · Movie
M*A*S*H
1970 · Movie
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Series
Lancer
1968 · Series
The Outsider
1968 · Series
A Bell for Adano
1967 · Movie
Mannix
1967 · Series
Cimarron Strip
1967 · Series
Felony Squad
1966 · Series
The Time Tunnel
1966 · Series
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965 · Movie
The F.B.I.
1965 · Series
Run for Your Life
1965 · Series
Those Calloways
1964 · Movie
12 O'Clock High
1964 · Series
One Man's Way
1964 · Movie
The Fugitive
1963 · Series
Combat!
1962 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Series
The Virginian
1962 · Series
War Hunt
1962 · Movie
Bonanza
1959 · Series
The Real McCoys
1957 · Series
Wagon Train
1957 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series