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Tom Skerritt
Biography:
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.
Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Broke as Cliff | 2025-06-10 |
| Alien: Terror in Space as Self - Actor | 2025-02-21 |
| A Look Through His Lens as Self | 2024-01-06 |
| East of the Mountains as Ben Givens | 2021-09-24 |
| Catch the Bullet as Dex | 2021-09-10 |
| The Phantom 52 as The Phantom | 2019-01-25 |
| Memory: The Origins of Alien as Self | 2019-01-24 |
| Lucky as Fred | 2017-09-29 |
| Day of Days as Walter | 2017-07-27 |
| Journey Back to Christmas as Tobias Cook | 2016-11-27 |
| A Hologram for the King as Ron Clay | 2016-04-22 |
| Field of Lost Shoes as Ulysses S. Grant | 2015-03-30 |
| The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway as Narrator (voice) | 2014-09-03 |
| Wings: Sky Force Heroes as Colonel (voice) | 2014-07-08 |
| At Middleton as Roland Emerson | 2013-10-09 |
| Redwood Highway as Pete Peterson | 2013-04-05 |
| Ted as Tom Skerritt | 2012-06-29 |
| Soda Springs as Walt Jackson | 2012-03-27 |
| Redemption Road as Santa | 2011-08-26 |
| Your Love Never Fails as Jack Connors | 2011-02-04 |
| Over Hawaii as Narrator (voice) | 2011-01-01 |
| Soaring Over America | 2010-01-01 |
| The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club as Narrator | 2009-12-10 |
| For Sale by Owner as Clive Farrier | 2009-10-27 |
| Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition as Narrator (voice) | 2009-10-17 |
| Whiteout as Dr. John Fury | 2009-09-09 |
| The Velveteen Rabbit as Horse (voice) | 2009-02-27 |
| Beer for My Horses as Sheriff Wilson Landry | 2008-08-08 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Gabe Utterson | 2008-05-17 |
| Bonneville as Emmett L. Johnson | 2006-09-11 |
| Fallen as Zeke | 2006-07-23 |
| Desperation as John Edward Marinville | 2006-05-23 |
| Mammoth as Simon Abernathy | 2006-04-22 |
| Vinegar Hill as Fritz Grier | 2005-03-06 |
| Homeland Security as Admiral McKee | 2004-04-11 |
| The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self | 2003-12-02 |
| Path to War as William Westmoreland | 2003-10-28 |
| Swing as George Verdi | 2003-10-09 |
| Tears of the Sun as Captain Bill Rhodes | 2003-03-07 |
| The Alien Saga as Self | 2002-11-13 |
| Greenmail as Tom Bradshaw | 2002-07-16 |
| Changing Hearts as Johnny Pinkley | 2002-04-22 |
| Texas Rangers as Richard Dukes | 2001-11-30 |
| Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy | 2000-11-04 |
| High Noon as Will Kane | 2000-08-20 |
| An American Daughter as Walter | 2000-06-05 |
| Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' as Self | 2000-01-08 |
| Altman on His Own Terms as Self | 2000-01-01 |
| The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer as Fred Maddux | 1999-05-09 |
| Into the Wild Blue as Host | 1999-05-08 |
| The Other Sister as Radley Tate | 1999-02-26 |
| Smoke Signals as Police Chief | 1998-06-26 |
| Two for Texas as Sam Houston | 1998-01-18 |
| What the Deaf Man Heard as Norm Jenkins | 1997-11-23 |
| Contact as David Drumlin | 1997-07-11 |
| Divided by Hate as Steve Riordan | 1997-01-01 |
| Over America | 1995-06-06 |
| Over California as Narrator (voice) | 1994-02-08 |
| A River Runs Through It as Reverend Maclean | 1992-10-09 |
| Singles as Mayor Weber | 1992-09-18 |
| Getting Up and Going Home as Jack Montgomery | 1992-07-21 |
| Poison Ivy as Darryl Cooper | 1992-05-08 |
| In Sickness and in Health as Jerritt Mattison | 1992-03-08 |
| Knight Moves as Frank Sedman | 1992-01-14 |
| The Making of 'Alien³' as Self | 1992-01-01 |
| Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue as Ham McDonald | 1991-10-31 |
| The Rookie as Eugene Ackerman | 1990-12-07 |
| She'll Take Romance as Judge Warren Danvers | 1990-11-25 |
| A Question About Sex as Jim | 1990-09-13 |
| Child in the Night as Detective Bass | 1990-05-01 |
| The China Lake Murders as Sheriff Sam Brodie | 1990-01-31 |
| Big Man on Campus as Dr. Webster | 1989-12-12 |
| Red King, White Knight as Stoner | 1989-11-25 |
| Steel Magnolias as Drum Eatenton | 1989-11-15 |
| The Heist as Ebbet Berens | 1989-09-16 |
| Poltergeist III as Bruce Gardner | 1988-06-10 |
| Nightmare at Bittercreek as Ding | 1988-05-24 |
| Moving Target as Joseph Kellogg | 1988-02-08 |
| Honor Bound as Sam Cahill | 1988-01-01 |
| The Big Town as Phil Carpenter | 1987-09-25 |
| Maid to Order as Charles Montgomery | 1987-07-10 |
| Poker Alice as Jeremy Collins | 1987-05-21 |
| Wisdom as Lloyd Wisdom | 1986-12-31 |
| Miles to Go… as Stuart Browning | 1986-10-14 |
| Opposing Force as Logan | 1986-08-01 |
| The Parent Trap II as Bill Grand | 1986-07-26 |
| SpaceCamp as Zack | 1986-06-06 |
| Top Gun as Viper | 1986-05-16 |
| A Touch of Scandal as Father Dwelle | 1984-11-27 |
| Calendar Girl Murders as Lieutenant Dan Stoner | 1984-04-08 |
| The Dead Zone as Sheriff Bannerman | 1983-10-21 |
| A Dangerous Summer as Howard Anderson | 1982-10-22 |
| Fighting Back as John D'Angelo | 1982-05-21 |
| Silence of the North as Walter Reamer | 1981-10-23 |
| Savage Harvest as Casey | 1981-04-11 |
| Alien as Dallas | 1979-05-25 |
| Ice Castles as Marcus Winston | 1978-12-31 |
| Up in Smoke as Strawberry | 1978-09-15 |
| Maneaters Are Loose! as John Gosford | 1978-05-03 |
| The Turning Point as Wayne | 1977-11-14 |
| Plot of Fear as Chief Inspector | 1976-09-17 |
| La madama as Jack | 1976-01-16 |
| The Devil’s Rain as Tom Preston | 1975-07-01 |
| The Last Day as Bill Powers | 1975-02-15 |
| Big Bad Mama as Fred | 1974-09-19 |
| Run, Run, Joe! as Margherito | 1974-04-11 |
| Thieves Like Us as Dee Mobley | 1974-02-11 |
| The Birdmen as Orville Fitzgerald | 1973-11-08 |
| Fuzz as Det. Bert Kling | 1972-07-14 |
| Harold and Maude as Motorcycle Officer | 1971-12-20 |
| Wild Rovers as John Buckman | 1971-06-23 |
| The Moonshine War as Neighbor (uncredited) | 1970-06-30 |
| M*A*S*H as Duke Forrest | 1970-02-18 |
| A Bell for Adano as Sgt. Trapani | 1967-11-11 |
| The Further Adventures of Gallegher as Corky Mardis | 1965-09-26 |
| Those Calloways as Whit Turner | 1964-11-10 |
| One Man's Way as Leonard Peale, Grown | 1964-02-26 |
| War Hunt as Sgt. Stan Showalter | 1962-05-01 |









