Tom Skerritt

Acting

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.

Filmography 183

Movies (117)

Broke
2025
Cliff
Alien: Terror in Space
2025
Self - Actor
A Look Through His Lens
2024
Self
East of the Mountains
2021
Ben Givens
Catch the Bullet
2021
Dex
The Phantom 52
2019
The Phantom
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
Self
Lucky
2017
Fred
Day of Days
2017
Walter
Journey Back to Christmas
2016
Tobias Cook
A Hologram for the King
2016
Ron Clay
Field of Lost Shoes
2015
Ulysses S. Grant
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014
Narrator (voice)
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
2014
Colonel (voice)
At Middleton
2013
Dr. Roland Emerson
Redwood Highway
2013
Pete Peterson
Ted
2012
Tom Skerritt
Soda Springs
2012
Walt Jackson
Redemption Road
2011
Santa
Your Love Never Fails
2011
Jack Connors
Over Hawaii
2011
Narrator (voice)
Soaring Over America
2010
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009
Narrator
For Sale by Owner
2009
Clive Farrier
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009
Narrator (voice)
Whiteout
2009
Dr. John Fury
The Velveteen Rabbit
2009
Horse (voice)
Beer for My Horses
2008
Sheriff Wilson Landry
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008
Gabe Utterson
Bonneville
2006
Emmett L. Johnson