Acting · Detroit, Michigan, USA · Born August 25, 1933
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.
MovieBroke
2025
as Cliff
MovieAlien: Terror in Space
2025
as Self - Actor
A Look Through His Lens
2024
as Self
TVGoing Home
2022
as Vance Baker
MovieEast of the Mountains
2021
as Ben Givens
MovieCatch the Bullet
2021
as Dex
MovieThe Phantom 52
2019
as The Phantom
MovieMemory: The Origins of Alien
2019
as Self
MovieLucky
2017
as Fred
MovieDay of Days
2017
as Walter
MovieJourney Back to Christmas
2016
as Tobias Cook
TVThe American West
2016
as Self
MovieA Hologram for the King
2016
as Ron Clay
MovieField of Lost Shoes
2015
as Ulysses S. Grant
TVMadam Secretary
2014
as Patrick McCord
MovieThe Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014
as Narrator (voice)
MovieWings: Sky Force Heroes
2014
as Colonel (voice)
MovieAt Middleton
2013
as Dr. Roland Emerson
MovieRedwood Highway
2013
as Pete Peterson
MovieTed
2012
as Tom Skerritt
MovieSoda Springs
2012
as Walt Jackson
MovieRedemption Road
2011
as Santa
MovieYour Love Never Fails
2011
as Jack Connors
MovieOver Hawaii
2011
as Narrator (voice)
MovieSoaring Over America
2010
MovieThe Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009
as Narrator
MovieFor Sale by Owner
2009
as Clive Farrier
TVWhite Collar
2009
as Alan Mitchell
MovieSeattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009
as Narrator (voice)
TVThe Good Wife
2009
as James Paisley
MovieWhiteout
2009
as Dr. John Fury
MovieThe Velveteen Rabbit
2009
as Horse (voice)
TVLeverage
2008
as Jimmy Ford
MovieBeer for My Horses
2008
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
MovieDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008
as Gabe Utterson
TVThe Trojan Horse
2008
as President Stanfield
TVFallen
2007
as Zeke
TVTim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
2007
as Self
TVKiller Wave
2007
as Victor Bannister
TVBrothers and Sisters
2006
as William Walker
MovieBonneville
2006
as Emmett L. Johnson
MovieFallen
2006
as Zeke
MovieDesperation
2006
as John Edward Marinville
MovieMammoth
2006
as Simon Abernathy
TVCategory 7: The End of the World
2005
as Colonel Mike Davis
TVThe Closer
2005
as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
MovieVinegar Hill
2005
as Fritz Grier
TVHuff
2004
TVThe Grid
2004
MovieHomeland Security
2004
as Admiral McKee
TVHomeland Security
2004
as Admiral Theodore McKee
MovieThe Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as Self
MoviePath to War
2003
as William Westmoreland
MovieSwing
2003
as George Verdi
MovieTears of the Sun
2003
as Captain Bill Rhodes
MovieThe Alien Saga
2002
as Self
MovieGreenmail
2002
as Tom Bradshaw
TVThe Dead Zone
2002
as Herb Smith
MovieChanging Hearts
2002
as Johnny Pinkley
MovieTexas Rangers
2001
as Richard Dukes
TVHistory vs. Hollywood
2001
as Self
TVJackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
MovieJackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
MovieHigh Noon
2000
as Will Kane
TVBackstory
2000
as Self
MovieAn American Daughter
2000
as Walter
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000
as Self
MovieAltman on His Own Terms
2000
as Self
TVAftershock: Earthquake in New York
1999
as Thomas Ahearn
TVThe West Wing
1999
as Chris Carrick
TVLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Oliver Taft
MovieThe Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999
as Fred Maddux
TVThe Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
1999
as Fred Maddux
MovieInto the Wild Blue
1999
as Host
MovieThe Other Sister
1999
as Radley Tate
TVWill & Grace
1998
as Dr. Jay Markus
MovieSmoke Signals
1998
as Police Chief
MovieTwo for Texas
1998
as Sam Houston
MovieWhat the Deaf Man Heard
1997
as Norm Jenkins
MovieContact
1997
as David Drumlin
MovieDivided by Hate
1997
as Steve Riordan
TVE! True Hollywood Story
1996
MovieOver America
1995
TVChicago Hope
1994
as Jim Kellner
MovieOver California
1994
as Narrator (voice)
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
MovieA River Runs Through It
1992
as Rev. Maclean
MovieSingles
1992
as Mayor Weber
TVPicket Fences
1992
as Jimmy Brock
MovieGetting Up and Going Home
1992
as Jack Montgomery
MoviePoison Ivy
1992
as Darryl Cooper
MovieIn Sickness and in Health
1992
as Jerritt Mattison
MovieKnight Moves
1992
as Frank Sedman
MovieWild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991
as Ham McDonald
MovieThe Rookie
1990
as Eugene Ackerman
MovieShe'll Take Romance
1990
as Judge Warren Danvers
MovieA Question About Sex
1990
as Jim
MovieChild in the Night
1990
as Detective Bass
MovieThe China Lake Murders
1990
as Sheriff Sam Brodie
MovieBig Man on Campus
1989
as Dr. Webster
MovieRed King, White Knight
1989
as Stoner
MovieSteel Magnolias
1989
as Drum Eatenton
MovieThe Heist
1989
as Ebbet Berens
MoviePoltergeist III
1988
as Bruce Gardner
MovieNightmare at Bittercreek
1988
as Ding
MovieMoving Target
1988
as Joseph Kellogg
MovieHonor Bound
1988
as Sam Cahill
MovieThe Big Town
1987
as Phil Carpenter
MovieMaid to Order
1987
as Charles Montgomery
MoviePoker Alice
1987
as Jeremy Collins
MovieWisdom
1986
as Lloyd Wisdom
MovieMiles to Go…
1986
as Stuart Browning
MovieOpposing Force
1986
as Logan
MovieThe Parent Trap II
1986
as Bill Grand
MovieSpaceCamp
1986
as Zack
MovieTop Gun
1986
as Viper
TVDanger Bay
1985
as Don Bared
TVThe Twilight Zone
1985
as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
MovieA Touch of Scandal
1984
as Father Dwelle
MovieCalendar Girl Murders
1984
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
TVThe Hitchhiker
1983
as Detective Frank Sheen
MovieThe Dead Zone
1983
as Sheriff Bannerman
TVRyan's Four
1983
as Dr. Thomas Ryan
MovieA Dangerous Summer
1982
as Howard Anderson
TVCheers
1982
as Evan Drake
MovieFighting Back
1982
as John D'Angelo
MovieSilence of the North
1981
as Walter Reamer
MovieSavage Harvest
1981
as Casey
MovieAlien
1979
as Dallas
MovieIce Castles
1978
as Marcus Winston
MovieUp in Smoke
1978
as Strawberry
MovieManeaters Are Loose!
1978
as John Gosford
MovieThe Turning Point
1977
as Wayne
TVOrigins of the Mafia
1976
as Bernardino Campo
MoviePlot of Fear
1976
as Chief Inspector
MovieLa madama
1976
as Jack
MovieThe Devil’s Rain
1975
as Tom Preston
TVS.W.A.T.
1975
MovieThe Last Day
1975
as Bill Powers
TVBaretta
1975
MovieBig Bad Mama
1974
as Fred
TVKolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
TVThe Manhunter
1974
MovieRun, Run, Joe!
1974
as Margherito
MovieThieves Like Us
1974
as Dee Mobley
TVGet Christie Love!
1974
MovieThe Birdmen
1973
as Orville Fitzgerald
MovieFuzz
1972
as Det. Bert Kling
MovieHarold and Maude
1971
as Motorcycle Officer
TVNichols
1971
as Charley Doyle
TVCannon
1971
as Bud
MovieWild Rovers
1971
as John Buckman
MovieThe Moonshine War
1970
as Neighbor (uncredited)
MovieM*A*S*H
1970
as Duke Forrest
TVLancer
1968
TVHawaii Five-O
1968
as Lew Morgan
TVThe Outsider
1968
as Arnie Cambor
MovieA Bell for Adano
1967
as Sgt. Trapani
TVMannix
1967
as Morgan Carpenter
TVCimarron Strip
1967
as Enoch Shelton
TVFelony Squad
1966
TVThe Time Tunnel
1966
as Matthew Gebhardt
MovieThe Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965
as Corky Mardis
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Robert Hastings
TVRun for Your Life
1965
as Lou Patterson
MovieThose Calloways
1964
as Whit Turner
TV12 O'Clock High
1964
as Lt. Paddy Gialella
MovieOne Man's Way
1964
as Leonard Peale, Grown
TVThe Fugitive
1963
as Neely Hollister
TVCombat!
1962
as Hicks
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Frank Farmer
TVThe Virginian
1962
as Eric Kroeger
MovieWar Hunt
1962
as Sgt. Stan Showalter
TVBonanza
1959
as Jerry
TVThe Real McCoys
1957
as Mailman
TVWagon Train
1957
as Hamish Browne
TVTony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Edmund Dano
TVThe Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Corky Mardis
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Norm Jenkins
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
