Tom Skerritt
Born: 1933-08-25
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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
Alien
1979★ 8.2
Top Gun
1986★ 7.1
Contact
1997★ 7.4
Ted
2012★ 6.4
Tears of the Sun
2003★ 6.9
Whiteout
2009★ 5.6
Broke
2025★ 6.9
Steel Magnolias
1989★ 7.2
Fighting Back
1982★ 5.7
Homeland Security
2004★ 3.8
Opposing Force
1986★ 4.3
Savage Harvest
1981★ 5.7
A River Runs Through It
1992★ 7.0
Poison Ivy
1992★ 5.4
Redemption Road
2011★ 5.0
Smoke Signals
1998★ 6.8
Soda Springs
2012★ 5.6
Fallen
2006★ 6.9
Wild Rovers
1971★ 6.2
Texas Rangers
2001★ 6.0
Redwood Highway
2013★ 5.9
War Hunt
1962★ 6.5
Bonneville
2006★ 5.6
Fuzz
1972★ 5.4
M*A*S*H
1970★ 7.0
Changing Hearts
2002★ 6.3
Swing
2003★ 8.0
The Heist
1989★ 4.9
Mammoth
2006★ 4.5
The Parent Trap II
1986★ 5.4
Big Man on Campus
1989★ 6.2
High Noon
2000★ 5.2
Desperation
2006★ 5.5
Up in Smoke
1978★ 6.6
Greenmail
2002★ 2.3
The Dead Zone
1983★ 7.0
Vinegar Hill
2005★ 3.5
Wisdom
1986★ 5.9
In Sickness and in Health
1992★ 1.0
The Other Sister
1999★ 6.3
The Rookie
1990★ 5.9
Harold and Maude
1971★ 7.6
A Question About Sex
1990★ 0.0
Over Hawaii
2011★ 0.0
Lucky
2017★ 7.3
Poker Alice
1987★ 6.3
A Touch of Scandal
1984★ 0.0
Poltergeist III
1988★ 5.2
Calendar Girl Murders
1984★ 4.4
Getting Up and Going Home
1992★ 0.0
Singles
1992★ 6.4
The Turning Point
1977★ 6.5
Knight Moves
1992★ 5.8
A Hologram for the King
2016★ 5.8
Big Bad Mama
1974★ 5.7
Category 7: The End of the World
2005★ 6.1
Ice Castles
1978★ 7.3
Alien: Terror in Space
2025★ 6.8
SpaceCamp
1986★ 5.9
The Velveteen Rabbit
2009★ 6.6
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019★ 6.3
Maid to Order
1987★ 5.4
The Devil's Rain
1975★ 5.0
At Middleton
2013★ 6.2
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
2014★ 5.4
Path to War
2003★ 6.7
Over America
2008★ 0.0
Catch the Bullet
2021★ 5.6
Run, Run, Joe!
1974★ 5.0
East of the Mountains
2021★ 5.3
Child in the Night
1990★ 5.4
Thieves Like Us
1974★ 6.5
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991★ 5.3
For Sale by Owner
2009★ 3.3
The Big Town
1987★ 5.6
Beer for My Horses
2008★ 4.8
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997★ 6.2
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008★ 4.6
Plot of Fear
1976★ 5.5
A Dangerous Summer
1982★ 3.7
Red King, White Knight
1989★ 6.0
Your Love Never Fails
2011★ 5.8
Journey Back to Christmas
2016★ 6.5
Silence of the North
1981★ 4.0
An American Daughter
2000★ 3.8
Field of Lost Shoes
2015★ 6.1
The China Lake Murders
1990★ 5.2
Two for Texas
1998★ 6.0
A Bell for Adano
1967★ 0.0
One Man's Way
1964★ 3.3
The Alien Saga
2002★ 6.6
Nightmare at Bittercreek
1988★ 5.6
The Last Day
1975★ 6.2
Into the Wild Blue
1999★ 0.0
The Moonshine War
1970★ 5.5
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000★ 0.0
The Birdmen
1973★ 7.5
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965★ 0.0
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999★ 4.2
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978★ 0.0
Moving Target
1988★ 6.0
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003★ 8.2
The Phantom 52
2019★ 9.4
Day of Days
2017★ 3.5
Those Calloways
1964★ 6.3
Miles to Go…
1986★ 6.0
Divided by Hate
1997★ 6.7
Altman on His Own Terms
2000★ 0.0
She'll Take Romance
1990★ 2.5
La madama
1976★ 5.2
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009★ 6.2
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014★ 8.0
Honor Bound
1988★ 0.0
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009★ 0.0
Soaring Over America
2010★ 0.0