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Tom Skerritt

Actor, Director, ProducerBorn August 25, 1933 (91 years)
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Skerritt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Singles
  • Bonanza
  • The Dead Zone
  • The Devil's Rain
  • Big Bad Mama
  • My Favorite Martian
  • Big Man on Campus
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Real McCoys
  • What the Deaf Man Heard
  • Death Valley Days
  • Your Love Never Fails
  • Catch the Bullet
  • Redemption Road
  • Vinegar Hill
  • A Dangerous Summer
  • Swing
  • Over America
  • The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway

Known For

  • Alien
  • Top Gun
  • Contact
  • The Dead Zone
  • M*A*S*H
  • A River Runs Through It
  • Poltergeist III
  • Tears of the Sun
  • Whiteout
  • Desperation
  • Picket Fences
  • A Hologram for the King
  • Steel Magnolias
  • Poison Ivy
  • The Rookie
  • Lucky
  • The Other Sister
  • Leverage
  • Knight Moves
  • SpaceCamp
  • Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
  • The Turning Point
  • Big Bad Mama
  • At Middleton

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2025
    2022
    Going Home (TV Series) · as Vance Baker
    2021
    East of the Mountains · as Ben Givens
    2021
    2017
    Lucky · as Fred
    2017
    Day of Days · as Walter
    2016
    Journey Back to Christmas · as Tobias Cook
    2016
    2015
    Field of Lost Shoes · as Ulysses S. Grant
    2014
    Return of the River · as Grant Humes
    2014
    Madam Secretary (TV Series) · as Patrick Mccord
    2014
    2014
    Wings: Sky Force Heroes · as Colonel (voice)
    2013
    At Middleton · as Dr. Roland Emerson
    2013
    Redwood Highway · as Pete Peterson
    2012
    Wings · as Colonel
    2012
    Soda Springs · as Walt Jackson
    2011
    2010
    2009
    2009
    For Sale by Owner · as Clive Farrier
    2009
    White Collar (TV Series) · as Alan Mitchell
    2009
    The Good Wife (TV Series) · as James Paisley
    2009
    Whiteout · as Dr. John Fury
    2009
    The Velveteen Rabbit · as Horse (voice)
    2008
    Leverage (TV Series) · as Jimmy Ford
    2008
    Beer for My Horses · as Sheriff Wilson Landry
    2008
    The Trojan Horse (TV Series) · as President Stanfield
    2008
    2008
    2007
    Fallen (2007) (TV Series)
    2007
    Killer Wave · as Victor Bannister
    2007
    Killer Wave (TV Series) · as Victor Bannister
    2006
    Desperation · as John Edward Marinville
    2006
    Brothers & Sisters (TV Series) · as William Walker
    2006
    Bonneville · as Emmett L. Johnson
    2006
    Fallen · as Zeke
    2006
    Mammoth · as Simon Abernathy
    2005
    Category 7: The End of the World · as Colonel Mike Davis
    2005
    Category 7: The End of the World (TV Series) · as Colonel Mike Davis
    2005
    The Colbert Report (TV Series) · as Viper (archive Footage)
    2005
    The Closer (TV Series) · as Det. Joey 'o' Olin
    2005
    Vinegar Hill · as Fritz Grier
    2004
    Huff (TV Series)
    2004
    The Grid (TV Series)
    2004
    Homeland Security · as Admiral Mckee
    2003
    Swing · as George Verdi
    2003
    Tears of the Sun · as Captain Bill Rhodes
    2002
    The Dead Zone (TV Series) · as Herb Smith
    2002
    Greenmail · as Tom Bradshaw
    2002
    Path to War · as William Westmoreland
    2002
    Changing Hearts · as Johnny Pinkley
    2001
    Texas Rangers · as Richard Dukes
    2000
    Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis · as Joseph P. "joe" Kennedy
    2000
    2000
    High Noon · as Will Kane
    2000
    Trial by Media · as Walter
    1999
    Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (TV Series) · as Thomas Ahearn
    1999
    The West Wing (TV Series) · as Senator Chris Carrick
    1999
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Oliver Taft
    1999
    1999
    1999
    The Other Sister · as Radley Tate
    1998
    Smoke Signals · as Police Chief
    1998
    Will & Grace (TV Series) · as Dr. Jay Markus
    1998
    Two for Texas · as Sam Houston
    1997
    1997
    Divided by Hate · as Steve Riordan
    1997
    Contact · as David Drumlin
    1996
    1994
    Chicago Hope (TV Series)
    1994
    Over California in High Definition · as Narrator (voice)
    1992
    A River Runs Through It · as Rev. Maclean
    1992
    Singles · as Mayor Weber
    1992
    Picket Fences (TV Series) · as Jimmy Brock
    1992
    Getting Up and Going Home · as Jack Montgomery
    1992
    Poison Ivy · as Darryl Cooper
    1992
    In Sickness and in Health · as Jerritt Mattison
    1992
    Knight Moves · as Frank Sedman
    1991
    1990
    The Rookie · as Eugene Ackerman
    1990
    She'll Take Romance · as Judge Warren Danvers
    1990
    Child in the Night · as Detective Bass
    1990
    The China Lake Murders · as Sheriff Sam Brodie
    1989
    Big Man on Campus · as Dr. Webster
    1989
    1989
    Steel Magnolias · as Drum Eatenton
    1989
    The Heist · as Ebbet Berens
    1988
    Poltergeist III · as Bruce Gardner
    1988
    1988
    Moving Target · as Joseph Kellogg
    1988
    Honor Bound · as Sam Cahill
    1987
    The Big Town · as Phil Carpenter
    1987
    Maid to Order · as Charles Montgomery
    1987
    Poker Alice · as Jeremy Collins
    1987
    Biography (TV Series) · as Passages Read By
    1986
    Wisdom · as Lloyd Wisdom
    1986
    Miles to Go... · as Stuart Browning
    1986
    Opposing Force · as Logan
    1986
    The Parent Trap II · as Bill Grand
    1986
    SpaceCamp · as Zack
    1986
    Top Gun · as Viper
    1985
    The Twilight Zone (1985) (TV Series) · as (segment "what Are Friends For?")
    1984
    A Touch of Scandal · as Father Dwelle
    1984
    Calendar Girl Murders · as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
    1983
    The Hitchhiker (TV Series) · as Detective Frank Sheen
    1983
    The Dead Zone · as Sheriff Bannerman
    1983
    Danger Bay (TV Series) · as Don Bared
    1982
    A Dangerous Summer · as Howard Anderson
    1982
    Cheers (TV Series) · as Evan Drake
    1982
    Fighting Back · as John D'angelo
    1981
    Silence of the North · as Walter Reamer
    1981
    Savage Harvest · as Casey
    1979
    Alien · as Dallas
    1978
    Ice Castles · as Marcus Winston
    1978
    Up in Smoke · as Strawberry
    1978
    Maneaters Are Loose! · as John Gosford
    1977
    The Turning Point · as Wayne
    1976
    Plot of Fear · as Chief Inspector
    1976
    Origins of the Mafia (TV Series) · as Bernardino Campo
    1976
    La madama · as Jack
    1975
    The Devil's Rain · as Tom Preston
    1975
    S.W.A.T. (TV Series)
    1975
    The Last Day · as Bill Powers
    1975
    Baretta (TV Series)
    1974
    1974
    Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) · as Robert W. Palmer
    1974
    Get Christie Love (TV Series)
    1974
    Thieves Like Us · as Dee Mobley
    1974
    Run, Run, Joe! · as Margherito
    1974
    Manhunter (TV Series)
    1973
    Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Darrin Addison
    1972
    Fuzz · as Det. Bert Kling
    1972
    The ABC Afterschool Special (TV Series) · as Jim
    1971
    Harold and Maude · as Motorcycle Officer
    1971
    The Birdmen · as Orville Fitzgerald
    1971
    Nichols (TV Series) · as Charley Doyle
    1971
    Cannon (TV Series) · as Bud
    1971
    Wild Rovers · as John Buckman
    1970
    The Moonshine War · as Neighbor (uncredited)
    1970
    Storefront Lawyers/Men At Law (TV Series) · as Paul Marek
    1970
    M*A*S*H · as Duke Forrest
    1969
    Bracken's World (TV Series) · as Gil Dobie
    1969
    Medical Center (TV Series) · as Artie Atwood
    1968
    Lancer (TV Series)
    1968
    The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Pete
    1968
    Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) · as Lew Morgan
    1968
    The Outsider (TV Series)
    1967
    Mannix (TV Series) · as Morgan Carpenter
    1967
    Cimarron Strip (TV Series)
    1966
    The Felony Squad (TV Series)
    1966
    The Time Tunnel (TV Series) · as Matthew Gebhardt
    1965
    The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Thorn Hazard
    1965
    Run for Your Life (TV Series) · as Lou Patterson
    1965
    Those Calloways · as Whit Turner
    1964
    12 O'Clock High (TV Series) · as Lt. Paddy Gialella
    1964
    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) · as Richardson
    1964
    One Man's Way · as Leonard Peale, Grown
    1963
    My Favorite Martian (TV Series) · as Edgar
    1963
    Temple Houston (TV Series) · as Cast
    1963
    The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Neely Hollister
    1962
    Combat! (TV Series) · as Sgt. Decker
    1962
    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Frank Farmer
    1962
    The Virginian (TV Series) · as Moran
    1962
    War Hunt · as Sgt. Stan Showalter
    1960
    My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Young Steve
    1959
    Laramie (TV Series) · as Price
    1959
    Bonanza (TV Series) · as Corporal Bill Tanner
    1957
    The Real McCoys (TV Series) · as Mailman
    1957
    Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Hamish Browne
    1955
    Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Ben Stone
    1954
    Disneyland (TV Series) · as Corky Mardis
    1952
    Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Dennis Driscoll
    1951
    Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Norm Jenkins

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