Tom Skerritt
- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 25, 1933 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Active Years
- 1944–2025 (82 Years)
- Total Credits
- 203 credits in database
Acting Born Aug 25, 1933 Detroit, Michigan, USA 203 credits
Biography
Tom Skerritt is an American actor born on August 25, 1933, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He has appeared in more than forty films and over two hundred television episodes since 1962. Skerritt has been involved in various notable projects, including film roles and a television series. He has earned several nominations and awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for his work on a television series. Skerritt is known for his work in the film industry, with a career spanning multiple decades and numerous credits.
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Career overview
Tom Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television episodes since 1962. He has accumulated a significant body of work, with over 183 credits to his name. Skerritt's acting career spans multiple genres and formats, showcasing his versatility as a performer.
Skerritt's filmography includes a range of notable titles, although specific details about his roles in these films are not provided. He has appeared in films such as MAS*H, Alien, The Dead Zone, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, and Up in Smoke. In addition to his film work, Skerritt has also had a substantial presence on television, with over 200 episodes under his belt.
Skerritt's achievements in the entertainment industry have been recognized with several nominations and awards. Notably, he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for his work on the television series Picket Fences.
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Career timeline
BrokeAlien: Terror in Space
A Look Through His Lens
Going Home
Catch the BulletEast of the MountainsEast of the Mountains · Executive Producer
The Phantom 52Memory: The Origins of Alien
LuckyDay of Days
The American WestA Hologram for the KingJourney Back to Christmas
Field of Lost Shoes
Madam SecretaryWings: Sky Force HeroesThe Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
At MiddletonRedwood Highway
TedSoda Springs
Your Love Never FailsRedemption RoadOver Hawaii
Soaring Over America
The Good WifeWhite CollarWhiteoutThe Velveteen RabbitFor Sale by Owner
LeverageDr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeThe Trojan HorseBeer for My Horses
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!Killer WaveFallen
Brothers and SistersDesperationBonnevilleFallenMammoth
The CloserCategory 7: The End of the WorldVinegar Hill
HuffThe GridHomeland SecurityHomeland Security
Tears of the SunPath to WarSwingThe Beast Within: Making Alien
The Dead ZoneThe Alien SagaGreenmailChanging Hearts
Texas RangersHistory vs. Hollywood
BackstoryJackie Bouvier Kennedy OnassisAn American DaughterJackie Bouvier Kennedy OnassisAltman on His Own Terms
Law & Order: Special Victims UnitThe West WingThe Other SisterAftershock: Earthquake in New YorkThe Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
Will & GraceSmoke SignalsTwo for Texas
ContactWhat the Deaf Man HeardDivided by HateDivided by Hate · Director
E! True Hollywood Story
Over America
Chicago HopeOver California
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Full Filmography
203 titles- Broke (2025) as Cliff
- Alien: Terror in Space (2025) as Self - Actor
- A Look Through His Lens (2024) as Self
- Going Home (2022) as Vance Baker
- Catch the Bullet (2021) as Dex
- East of the Mountains (2021) as Ben Givens
- East of the Mountains (2021) Executive Producer
- The Phantom 52 (2019) as The Phantom
- Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019) as Self
- Lucky (2017) as Fred
- Day of Days (2017) as Walter
- The American West (2016) as Self
- A Hologram for the King (2016) as Ron Clay
- Journey Back to Christmas (2016) as Tobias Cook
- Field of Lost Shoes (2015) as Ulysses S. Grant
- Madam Secretary (2014) as Patrick McCord
- Wings: Sky Force Heroes (2014) as Colonel (voice)
- The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway (2014) as Narrator (voice)
- At Middleton (2013) as Dr. Roland Emerson
- Redwood Highway (2013) as Pete Peterson
- Ted (2012) as Tom Skerritt
- Soda Springs (2012) as Walt Jackson
- Your Love Never Fails (2011) as Jack Connors
- Redemption Road (2011) as Santa
- Over Hawaii (2011) as Narrator (voice)
- Soaring Over America (2010)
- The Good Wife (2009) as James Paisley
- White Collar (2009) as Alan Mitchell
- Whiteout (2009) as Dr. John Fury
- The Velveteen Rabbit (2009) as Horse (voice)
- For Sale by Owner (2009) as Clive Farrier
- The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club (2009) as Narrator
- Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (2009) as Narrator (voice)
- Leverage (2008) as Jimmy Ford
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2008) as Gabe Utterson
- The Trojan Horse (2008) as President Stanfield
- Beer for My Horses (2008) as Sheriff Wilson Landry
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007) as Self
- Killer Wave (2007) as Victor Bannister
- Fallen (2007) as Zeke
- Brothers and Sisters (2006) as William Walker
- Desperation (2006) as John Edward Marinville
- Bonneville (2006) as Emmett L. Johnson
- Fallen (2006) as Zeke
- Mammoth (2006) as Simon Abernathy
- The Closer (2005) as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
- Category 7: The End of the World (2005) as Colonel Mike Davis
- Vinegar Hill (2005) as Fritz Grier
- Huff (2004)
- The Grid (2004)
- Homeland Security (2004) as Admiral McKee
- Homeland Security (2004) as Admiral Theodore McKee
- Tears of the Sun (2003) as Captain Bill Rhodes
- Path to War (2003) as William Westmoreland
- Swing (2003) as George Verdi
- The Beast Within: Making Alien (2003) as Self
- The Dead Zone (2002) as Herb Smith
- The Alien Saga (2002) as Self
- Greenmail (2002) as Tom Bradshaw
- Changing Hearts (2002) as Johnny Pinkley
- Texas Rangers (2001) as Richard Dukes
- History vs. Hollywood (2001) as Self
- Backstory (2000) as Self
- Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (2000) as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
- An American Daughter (2000) as Walter
- Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (2000) as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
- Altman on His Own Terms (2000) as Self
- Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' (2000) as Self
- High Noon (2000) as Will Kane
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Oliver Taft
- The West Wing (1999) as Chris Carrick
- The Other Sister (1999) as Radley Tate
- Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) as Thomas Ahearn
- The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer (1999) as Fred Maddux
- The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999) as Fred Maddux
- Into the Wild Blue (1999) as Host
- Will & Grace (1998) as Dr. Jay Markus
- Smoke Signals (1998) as Police Chief
- Two for Texas (1998) as Sam Houston
- Contact (1997) as David Drumlin
- What the Deaf Man Heard (1997) as Norm Jenkins
- Divided by Hate (1997) as Steve Riordan
- Divided by Hate (1997) Director
- E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
- Over America (1995)
- Chicago Hope (1994) as Jim Kellner
- Over California (1994) as Narrator (voice)
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) as Self - Guest
- Picket Fences (1992) as Jimmy Brock
- A River Runs Through It (1992) as Rev. Maclean
- Poison Ivy (1992) as Darryl Cooper
- Singles (1992) as Mayor Weber
- Knight Moves (1992) as Frank Sedman
- In Sickness and in Health (1992) as Jerritt Mattison
- Getting Up and Going Home (1992) as Jack Montgomery
- Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991) as Ham McDonald
- The Rookie (1990) as Eugene Ackerman
- A Question About Sex (1990) as Jim
- A Question About Sex (1990) Director
- Child in the Night (1990) as Detective Bass
- She'll Take Romance (1990) as Judge Warren Danvers
- The China Lake Murders (1990) as Sheriff Sam Brodie
- Steel Magnolias (1989) as Drum Eatenton
- Red King, White Knight (1989) as Stoner
- The Heist (1989) as Ebbet Berens
- Big Man on Campus (1989) as Dr. Webster
- Poltergeist III (1988) as Bruce Gardner
- Moving Target (1988) as Joseph Kellogg
- Honor Bound (1988) as Sam Cahill
- Nightmare at Bittercreek (1988) as Ding
- The Big Town (1987) as Phil Carpenter
- Maid to Order (1987) as Charles Montgomery
- Poker Alice (1987) as Jeremy Collins
- Top Gun (1986) as Viper
- The Parent Trap II (1986) as Bill Grand
- SpaceCamp (1986) as Zack
- Opposing Force (1986) as Logan
- Wisdom (1986) as Lloyd Wisdom
- Miles to Go… (1986) as Stuart Browning
- The Twilight Zone (1985) as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
- Danger Bay (1985) as Don Bared
- Calendar Girl Murders (1984) as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
- A Touch of Scandal (1984) as Father Dwelle
- The Hitchhiker (1983) as Detective Frank Sheen
- The Dead Zone (1983) as Sheriff Bannerman
- Ryan's Four (1983) as Dr. Thomas Ryan
- Cheers (1982) as Evan Drake
- Fighting Back (1982) as John D'Angelo
- A Dangerous Summer (1982) as Howard Anderson
- Silence of the North (1981) as Walter Reamer
- Savage Harvest (1981) as Casey
- Alien (1979) as Dallas
- Up in Smoke (1978) as Strawberry
- Ice Castles (1978) as Marcus Winston
- Maneaters Are Loose! (1978) as John Gosford
- The Turning Point (1977) as Wayne
- Origins of the Mafia (1976) as Bernardino Campo
- Plot of Fear (1976) as Chief Inspector
- La madama (1976) as Jack
- Baretta (1975)
- S.W.A.T. (1975)
- The Devil’s Rain (1975) as Tom Preston
- The Last Day (1975) as Bill Powers
- The Manhunter (1974)
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) as Robert W. Palmer
- Get Christie Love! (1974)
- Big Bad Mama (1974) as Fred
- Thieves Like Us (1974) as Dee Mobley
- Run, Run, Joe! (1974) as Margherito
- The Birdmen (1973) as Orville Fitzgerald
- ABC Afterschool Special (1972) Director
- Fuzz (1972) as Det. Bert Kling
- Cannon (1971) as Bud
- Nichols (1971) as Charley Doyle
- Harold and Maude (1971) as Motorcycle Officer
- Wild Rovers (1971) as John Buckman
- M*A*S*H (1970) as Duke Forrest
- The Moonshine War (1970) as Neighbor (uncredited)
- Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Lew Morgan
- Lancer (1968)
- The Outsider (1968) as Arnie Cambor
- Mannix (1967) as Morgan Carpenter
- Cimarron Strip (1967) as Enoch Shelton
- A Bell for Adano (1967) as Sgt. Trapani
- The Time Tunnel (1966) as Matthew Gebhardt
- Felony Squad (1966)
- The F.B.I. (1965) as Robert Hastings
- The F.B.I. (1965) as John Clarence Rim
- The F.B.I. (1965) as Thorn Hazard
- The F.B.I. (1965) as Bill Leonard
- Run for Your Life (1965) as Lou Patterson
- The Further Adventures of Gallegher (1965) as Corky Mardis
- 12 O'Clock High (1964) as Lt. Paddy Gialella
- 12 O'Clock High (1964) as Lt. Steve Parmalee
- Those Calloways (1964) as Whit Turner
- One Man's Way (1964) as Leonard Peale, Grown
- The Fugitive (1963) as Neely Hollister
- The Fugitive (1963) as Pete Edwards
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- The Virginian (1962) as Eric Kroeger
- The Virginian (1962) as Rev. Paul Martinson
- The Virginian (1962) as Billy Landers
- The Virginian (1962) as Moran
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) as Frank Farmer
- Combat! (1962) as Hicks
- Combat! (1962) as Burke
- Combat! (1962) as Sgt. Decker
- War Hunt (1962) as Sgt. Stan Showalter
- Bonanza (1959) as Jerry
- Bonanza (1959) as Corporal Bill Tanner
- Wagon Train (1957) as Hamish Browne
- The Real McCoys (1957) as Mailman
- Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Presenter
- Gunsmoke (1955) as Edmund Dano
- Gunsmoke (1955) as Ben Stone
- Gunsmoke (1955) as Orv Timpson
- Gunsmoke (1955) as Fred Garth
- Gunsmoke (1955) as Tuck Frye
- The Wonderful World of Disney (1954) as Corky Mardis
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) as Norm Jenkins
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Nominee
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self
Frequently Asked Questions
What movies or TV shows is Tom Skerritt best known for?
Tom Skerritt is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including Broke (2025), Catch the Bullet (2021), East of the Mountains (2021), East of the Mountains (2021).
When and where was Tom Skerritt born?
Tom Skerritt was born on August 25, 1933 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
How many credits does Tom Skerritt have?
Tom Skerritt has accumulated over 203 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1944 to 2025.
What is Tom Skerritt's background in cinema and television?
Tom Skerritt is an American actor born on August 25, 1933, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He has appeared in more than forty films and over two hundred television episodes since 1962. Skerritt has been involved in various notable projects, including film roles and a television series. He has earned several nominations and ...
Tom Skerritt by the numbers
203credits
120films
83TV series
1944–2025active years
Age in their best-rated roles
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) as Norm Jenkins — aged about 17
- The West Wing (1999) as Chris Carrick — aged about 65
- White Collar (2009) as Alan Mitchell — aged about 75
- Alien (1979) as Dallas — aged about 45
- Get Christie Love! (1974) — aged about 40
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Oliver Taft — aged about 65
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