Tom Skerritt

Acting · Born 1933-08-25 · Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

Known for

• Broke (2025)
• Alien: Terror in Space (2025)
• A Look Through His Lens (2024)
• East of the Mountains (2021)
• Catch the Bullet (2021)
• Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
• Lucky (2017)
• Day of Days (2017)
• A Hologram for the King (2016)
• Journey Back to Christmas (2016)
• Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
• The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway (2014)
• At Middleton (2013)
• Redwood Highway (2013)
• Ted (2012)
• Soda Springs (2012)
• Redemption Road (2011)
• Over Hawaii (2011)
• Your Love Never Fails (2011)
• Soaring Over America (2010)
• Whiteout (2009)
• For Sale by Owner (2009)
• Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (2009)
• The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club (2009)