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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Good Wife

The Fugitive

The Fugitive

Run for Your Life

The Closer

The West Wing

All Movies (117)

• Broke2025 · as Cliff
• Alien: Terror in Space2025 · as Self - Actor
• A Look Through His Lens2024 · as Self
• East of the Mountains2021 · as Ben Givens
• Catch the Bullet2021 · as Dex
• The Phantom 522019 · as The Phantom
• Memory: The Origins of Alien2019 · as Self
• Lucky2017 · as Fred
• Day of Days2017 · as Walter
• Journey Back to Christmas2016 · as Tobias Cook
• A Hologram for the King2016 · as Ron Clay
• Field of Lost Shoes2015 · as Ulysses S. Grant
• The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway2014 · as Narrator (voice)
• Wings: Sky Force Heroes2014 · as Colonel (voice)
• At Middleton2013 · as Dr. Roland Emerson
• Redwood Highway2013 · as Pete Peterson
• Ted2012 · as Tom Skerritt
• Soda Springs2012 · as Walt Jackson
• Redemption Road2011 · as Santa
• Your Love Never Fails2011 · as Jack Connors
• Over Hawaii2011 · as Narrator (voice)
• Soaring Over America2010
• The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club2009 · as Narrator
• For Sale by Owner2009 · as Clive Farrier
• Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition2009 · as Narrator (voice)
• Whiteout2009 · as Dr. John Fury
• The Velveteen Rabbit2009 · as Horse (voice)
• Beer for My Horses2008 · as Sheriff Wilson Landry
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde2008 · as Gabe Utterson
• Bonneville2006 · as Emmett L. Johnson
• Fallen2006 · as Zeke
• Desperation2006 · as John Edward Marinville
• Mammoth2006 · as Simon Abernathy
• Vinegar Hill2005 · as Fritz Grier
• Homeland Security2004 · as Admiral McKee
• The Beast Within: Making Alien2003 · as Self
• Path to War2003 · as William Westmoreland
• Swing2003 · as George Verdi
• Tears of the Sun2003 · as Captain Bill Rhodes
• The Alien Saga2002 · as Self
• Greenmail2002 · as Tom Bradshaw
• Changing Hearts2002 · as Johnny Pinkley
• Texas Rangers2001 · as Richard Dukes
• Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis2000 · as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
• High Noon2000 · as Will Kane
• An American Daughter2000 · as Walter
• Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'2000 · as Self
• Altman on His Own Terms2000 · as Self
• The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer1999 · as Fred Maddux
• Into the Wild Blue1999 · as Host
• The Other Sister1999 · as Radley Tate
• Smoke Signals1998 · as Police Chief
• Two for Texas1998 · as Sam Houston
• What the Deaf Man Heard1997 · as Norm Jenkins
• Contact1997 · as David Drumlin
• Divided by Hate1997 · as Steve Riordan
• Over America1995
• Over California1994 · as Narrator (voice)
• A River Runs Through It1992 · as Rev. Maclean
• Singles1992 · as Mayor Weber
• Getting Up and Going Home1992 · as Jack Montgomery
• Poison Ivy1992 · as Darryl Cooper
• In Sickness and in Health1992 · as Jerritt Mattison
• Knight Moves1992 · as Frank Sedman
• Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue1991 · as Ham McDonald
• The Rookie1990 · as Eugene Ackerman
• She'll Take Romance1990 · as Judge Warren Danvers
• A Question About Sex1990 · as Jim
• Child in the Night1990 · as Detective Bass
• The China Lake Murders1990 · as Sheriff Sam Brodie
• Big Man on Campus1989 · as Dr. Webster
• Red King, White Knight1989 · as Stoner
• Steel Magnolias1989 · as Drum Eatenton
• The Heist1989 · as Ebbet Berens
• Poltergeist III1988 · as Bruce Gardner
• Nightmare at Bittercreek1988 · as Ding
• Moving Target1988 · as Joseph Kellogg
• Honor Bound1988 · as Sam Cahill
• The Big Town1987 · as Phil Carpenter
• Maid to Order1987 · as Charles Montgomery
• Poker Alice1987 · as Jeremy Collins
• Wisdom1986 · as Lloyd Wisdom
• Miles to Go…1986 · as Stuart Browning
• Opposing Force1986 · as Logan
• The Parent Trap II1986 · as Bill Grand
• SpaceCamp1986 · as Zack
• Top Gun1986 · as Viper
• A Touch of Scandal1984 · as Father Dwelle
• Calendar Girl Murders1984 · as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
• The Dead Zone1983 · as Sheriff Bannerman
• A Dangerous Summer1982 · as Howard Anderson
• Fighting Back1982 · as John D'Angelo
• Silence of the North1981 · as Walter Reamer
• Savage Harvest1981 · as Casey
• Alien1979 · as Dallas
• Ice Castles1978 · as Marcus Winston
• Up in Smoke1978 · as Strawberry
• Maneaters Are Loose!1978 · as John Gosford
• The Turning Point1977 · as Wayne
• Plot of Fear1976 · as Chief Inspector
• La madama1976 · as Jack
• The Devil’s Rain1975 · as Tom Preston
• The Last Day1975 · as Bill Powers
• Big Bad Mama1974 · as Fred
• Run, Run, Joe!1974 · as Margherito
• Thieves Like Us1974 · as Dee Mobley
• The Birdmen1973 · as Orville Fitzgerald
• Fuzz1972 · as Det. Bert Kling
• Harold and Maude1971 · as Motorcycle Officer
• Wild Rovers1971 · as John Buckman
• The Moonshine War1970 · as Neighbor (uncredited)
• M*A*S*H1970 · as Duke Forrest
• A Bell for Adano1967 · as Sgt. Trapani
• The Further Adventures of Gallegher1965 · as Corky Mardis
• Those Calloways1964 · as Whit Turner
• One Man's Way1964 · as Leonard Peale, Grown
• War Hunt1962 · as Sgt. Stan Showalter

All TV Shows (83)

• Going Home2022 · as Vance Baker
• The American West2016 · as Self
• Madam Secretary2014 · as Patrick McCord
• White Collar2009 · as Alan Mitchell
• The Good Wife2009 · as James Paisley
• Leverage2008 · as Jimmy Ford
• The Trojan Horse2008 · as President Stanfield
• Fallen2007 · as Zeke
• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!2007 · as Self
• Killer Wave2007 · as Victor Bannister
• Brothers and Sisters2006 · as William Walker
• Category 7: The End of the World2005 · as Colonel Mike Davis
• The Colbert Report2005 · as Viper (archive footage)
• The Closer2005 · as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
• Huff2004
• The Grid2004
• Homeland Security2004 · as Admiral Theodore McKee
• The Dead Zone2002 · as Herb Smith
• History vs. Hollywood2001 · as Self
• Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis2000 · as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
• Backstory2000 · as Self
• Aftershock: Earthquake in New York1999 · as Thomas Ahearn
• The West Wing1999 · as Chris Carrick
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Oliver Taft
• The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer1999 · as Fred Maddux
• Will & Grace1998 · as Dr. Jay Markus
• E! True Hollywood Story1996
• Chicago Hope1994 · as Jim Kellner
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• Picket Fences1992 · as Jimmy Brock
• Danger Bay1985 · as Don Bared
• The Twilight Zone1985 · as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
• The Hitchhiker1983 · as Detective Frank Sheen
• Ryan's Four1983 · as Dr. Thomas Ryan
• Cheers1982 · as Evan Drake
• Origins of the Mafia1976 · as Bernardino Campo
• S.W.A.T.1975
• Baretta1975
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker1974
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker1974 · as Robert W. Palmer
• The Manhunter1974
• Get Christie Love!1974
• Nichols1971 · as Charley Doyle
• Cannon1971 · as Bud
• Lancer1968
• Hawaii Five-O1968 · as Lew Morgan
• The Outsider1968 · as Arnie Cambor
• Mannix1967 · as Morgan Carpenter
• Cimarron Strip1967 · as Enoch Shelton
• Felony Squad1966
• The Time Tunnel1966 · as Matthew Gebhardt
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Robert Hastings
• The F.B.I.1965 · as John Clarence Rim
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Thorn Hazard
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Bill Leonard
• Run for Your Life1965 · as Lou Patterson
• 12 O'Clock High1964 · as Lt. Paddy Gialella
• 12 O'Clock High1964 · as Lt. Steve Parmalee
• The Fugitive1963 · as Neely Hollister
• The Fugitive1963 · as Pete Edwards
• Combat!1962 · as Hicks
• Combat!1962 · as Burke
• Combat!1962 · as Sgt. Decker
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as Frank Farmer
• The Virginian1962 · as Eric Kroeger
• The Virginian1962 · as Rev. Paul Martinson
• The Virginian1962 · as Billy Landers
• The Virginian1962 · as Moran
• Bonanza1959 · as Jerry
• Bonanza1959 · as Corporal Bill Tanner
• The Real McCoys1957 · as Mailman
• Wagon Train1957 · as Hamish Browne
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Presenter
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Edmund Dano
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Ben Stone
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Orv Timpson
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Fred Garth
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Tuck Frye
• The Wonderful World of Disney1954 · as Corky Mardis
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Norm Jenkins
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self