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Tom Skerritt

Character Actor / Model (person) | * 08/25/1933 (90) | Detroit, Michigan (United States of America (USA))
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Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 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, Poltergeist III, and Up in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences and Cheers. Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | TV Movies

Known for these Movies & Shows

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold. ...

Steel Magnolias

PG

1989 | 3.6/5 | 1h 59min
Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
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A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some ...

Contact

PG

1997 | 3.7/5 | 2h 30min
Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
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For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well ...

Top Gun

PG

1986 | 3.5/5 | 1h 50min
Drama, Action, Adventure
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During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs ...

Alien

R

1979 | 4.1/5 | 1h 57min
Horror, Science Fiction
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Awards & Nominations for Tom Skerritt

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Mary Pickford Award
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Movies with Tom Skerritt as Actor(107)

as Dex2021 Catch the Bullet
as Ben Givens2021 East of the Mountains
as himself2019 Memory: The Origins of Alien
as The Phantom2019 The Phantom 52
as Walter2017 Day of Days
as Fred2017 Lucky
as Ron Clay2016 A Hologram for the King
as Tobias Cook2016 Journey Back to Christmas
as Ulysses S. Grant2015 Field of Lost Shoes
as Narrator (voice)2014 The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
as Colonel (Voice)2014 Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Pete2013 Redwood Highway
as Dr. Roland Emerson2013 At Middleton
as Walt Jackson2012 Soda Springs
as himself2012 Ted
as Santa2011 Redemption Road
as Narrator2011 Over Hawaii
as Jack Connors2011 Your Love Never Fails
as Clive Farrier2009 For Sale By Owner
as Horse2009 The Velveteen Rabbit
as Dr. John Fury2009 Whiteout
as Sheriff Wilson Landry2008 Beer for My Horses
2008 Over America
as Gabe Utterson2008 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Simon Abernathy2006 Mammoth
as John Edward Marinville2006 Desperation
as Zeke2006 Fallen
as Emmett2006 Bonneville
as Colonel Mike Davis2005 Category 7: The End of the World
as Fritz Grier2005 Vinegar Hill
as Admiral McKee2004 Homeland Security
as George Verdi2003 Swing
as Captain Bill Rhodes2003 Tears of the Sun
as General William Westmoreland2003 Path to War
as himself2003 The Beast Within: Making 'Alien'
as Johnny Pinkley2002 Changing Hearts
as Tom Bradshaw2002 Greenmail
as Richard Dukes2001 Texas Rangers
as Will Kane2000 High Noon
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy2000 Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as himself2000 Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Walter2000 An American Daughter
as Host1999 Into the Wild Blue
as Fred Maddux1999 The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as Radley Tate1999 The Other Sister
as Police Chief1998 Smoke Signals
as Sam Houston1998 Two for Texas
as Steve Riordan1997 Divided by Hate
as David Drumlin1997 Contact
as Norm Jenkins1997 What the Deaf Man Heard
as Jerritt Mattison1992 In Sickness and in Health
as Rev. Maclean1992 A River Runs Through It
as Frank Sedman1992 Knight Moves
as Jack Montgomery1992 Getting Up and Going Home
as Mayor Weber1992 Singles
as Darryl Cooper1992 Poison Ivy
as Ham McDonald1991 Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
as Eugene Ackerman1990 The Rookie
as Sheriff Sam Brodie1990 The China Lake Murders
as Judge Warren Danvers1990 She'll Take Romance
as Bass1990 Child in the Night
as Ebbet Berens1989 The Heist
as Stoner1989 Red King, White Knight
as Drum Eatenton1989 Steel Magnolias
as Dr. Webster1989 Big Man on Campus
1988 Honor Bound
as Ding1988 Nightmare at Bittercreek
as Joseph Kellogg1988 Moving Target
as Bruce Gardner1988 Poltergeist III
as Jeremy Collins1987 Poker Alice
as Phil Carpenter1987 The Big Town
as Charles Montgomery1987 Maid to Order
as Logan1986 Opposing Force
as Stuart Browning1986 Miles to Go…
as Zack1986 SpaceCamp
as Bill Grand1986 The Parent Trap II
as Cmdr. Mike 'Viper' Metcalf1986 Top Gun
as Lloyd Wisdom1986 Wisdom
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner1984 Calendar Girl Murders
as Father Dwelle1984 A Touch of Scandal
as Sheriff George Bannerman1983 The Dead Zone
as Howard Anderson1982 A Dangerous Summer
as John D'Angelo1982 Fighting Back
as Casey1981 Savage Harvest
as Walter Reamer1981 Silence of the North
as Dallas1979 Alien
as Strawberry1978 Up in Smoke
as John Gosford1978 Maneaters Are Loose!
as Marcus Winston1978 Ice Castles
as Wayne1977 The Turning Point
as Chief Inspector1976 Plot of Fear
as Jack1976 La madama
as Bill Powers1975 The Last Day
as Tom Preston1975 The Devil's Rain
as Dee Mobley1974 Thieves Like Us
as Fred1974 Big Bad Mama
as Margherito1974 Run, Run, Joe!
as Orville Fitzgerald1973 The Birdmen
as Det. Bert Kling1972 Fuzz
as John Buckman1971 Wild Rovers
as Motorcycle Officer1971 Harold and Maude
as Duke Forrest1970 M*A*S*H
as Neighbor (uncredited)1970 The Moonshine War
as Corky Mardis1965 The Further Adventures of Gallegher
as Whit Turner1965 Those Calloways
as Leonard Peale, Grown1964 One Man's Way
as Sgt. Stan Showalter1962 War Hunt

TV Shows/Series with Tom Skerritt as Actor(63)

as himself2016 The American West
as Alan Mitchell2009 White Collar
as Jimmy Ford2008 Leverage
as President Stanfield2008 The Trojan Horse
as Victor Bannister2007 Killer Wave
as himself2007 Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007 Fallen
as William Walker2006 Brothers and Sisters
as Det. Joey 'O' Olin2005 The Closer
as Viper (archive footage)2005 The Colbert Report
2004 The Grid
2004 Huff
as himself2001 History vs. Hollywood
as himself2000 Backstory
as Senator Chris Carrick1999 The West Wing
as Oliver Taft1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Dr. Jay Markus1998 Will & Grace
1996 E! True Hollywood Story
1994 Chicago Hope
as Self - Guest1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Jimmy Brock1992 Picket Fences
as Don Bared1985 Danger Bay
1985 The Twilight Zone
as Detective Frank Sheen1983 The Hitchhiker
as Bernardino Campo1976 Origins of the Mafia
1975 Baretta
1975 S.W.A.T.
1974 The Manhunter
1974 Get Christie Love!
1974 The Night Stalker
as Robert W. Palmer1974 The Night Stalker
as Charley Doyle1971 Nichols
as Bud1971 Cannon
as Lew Morgan1968 Hawaii Five-O
1968 Lancer
1968 The Outsider
1967 Cimarron Strip
as Morgan Carpenter1967 Mannix
1966 Felony Squad
as Matthew Gebhardt1966 The Time Tunnel
as Robert Hastings1965 The F.B.I.
as John Clarence Rim1965 The F.B.I.
as Thorn Hazard1965 The F.B.I.
as Bill Leonard1965 The F.B.I.
as Lou Patterson1965 Run for Your Life
as Lt. Steve Parmalee1964 12 O'Clock High
as Neely Hollister1963 The Fugitive
as Pete Edwards1963 The Fugitive
as Hicks1962 Combat!
as Burke1962 Combat!
as Sgt. Decker1962 Combat!
as Frank Farmer1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Eric Kroeger1962 The Virginian
as Rev. Paul Martinson1962 The Virginian
as Billy Landers1962 The Virginian
as Jerry1959 Bonanza
as Corporal Bill Tanner1959 Bonanza
as Edmund Dano1955 Gunsmoke
as Ben Stone1955 Gunsmoke
as Orv Timpson1955 Gunsmoke
as Fred Garth1955 Gunsmoke
as Tuck Frye1955 Gunsmoke
as Norm Jenkins1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame

Movies with Tom Skerritt as Crew(2)

Production/Executive Producer2021 East of the Mountains
Directing/Director1997 Divided by Hate

TV Shows/Series with Tom Skerritt as Crew(1)

Directing/Director1972 ABC Afterschool Special

Full Name: Thomas Roy Skerritt
Born: Friday, 08/25 1933 (August) in Detroit, Michigan (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 90 years + 238 days)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Mackenzie High School, Wayne State University, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Children: Matt Skerritt, Colin Skerritt
Other names for Tom Skerritt (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Tom Skerrit"
"Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt"
"Thomas Roy Skerritt"
"Τομ Σκέριτ"
"Том Скеррітт"
"汤姆·斯凯里特"
"톰 스커릿"
Tom Skerritt frequently works together with these people:
Gregg Palmer (30x, Actor)
John Anderson (30x, Actor)
R. G. Armstrong (27x, Actor)
Claude Akins (27x, Actor)
Harold Gould (27x, Actor)
Morgan Woodward (27x, Actor)
Victor French (27x, Actor)
Dabbs Greer (26x, Actor)
Harry Harvey (26x, Actor)
Ford Rainey (26x, Actor)
John Milford (25x, Actor)
Michael Feifer (9x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:527, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/17/2024