Tom Skerritt
Acting
August 25, 1933
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.
Movies
Alien
1979
Top Gun
1986
In Sickness and in Health
1992
Big Man on Campus
1989
Ted
2012
Contact
1997
M*A*S*H
1970
Changing Hearts
2002
Redemption Road
2011
Tears of the Sun
2003
Getting Up and Going Home
1992
Steel Magnolias
1989
Homeland Security
2004
Whiteout
2009
Broke
2025
Fighting Back
1982
Poison Ivy
1992
A River Runs Through It
1992
Texas Rangers
2001
Up in Smoke
1978
TV Shows
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Closer
2005
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The West Wing
1999
The Good Wife
2009
Bonanza
1959
Bonanza
1959
The Colbert Report
2005
White Collar
2009
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Cheers
1982
The Fugitive
1963
The Fugitive
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Madam Secretary
2014
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Tony Awards
1956
Will & Grace
1998
Hawaii Five-O
1968