Tom Skerritt

Acting

August 25, 1933 (92 years old)

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Male

120 Movies

84 TV Shows

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.

Alien

1979 8.2

as Dallas

Age 45 (now 92)

Top Gun

1986 7.1

as Viper

Age 52 (now 92)

The Dead Zone

1983 7.0

as Sheriff Bannerman

Age 50 (now 92)

Contact

1997 7.4

as David Drumlin

Age 63 (now 92)

A River Runs Through It

1992 7.0

as Rev. Maclean

Age 59 (now 92)

MAS*H

1970 6.9

as Duke Forrest

Age 36 (now 92)

Poltergeist III

1988 5.2

as Bruce Gardner

Age 54 (now 92)

Whiteout

2009 5.6

as Dr. John Fury

Age 76 (now 92)

Poison Ivy

1992 5.5

as Darryl Cooper

Age 58 (now 92)

Desperation

2006 5.5

as John Edward Marinville

Age 72 (now 92)

Tears of the Sun

2003 6.9

as Captain Bill Rhodes

Age 69 (now 92)

A Hologram for the King

2016 5.9

as Ron Clay

Age 82 (now 92)

Lucky

2017 7.3

as Fred

Age 84 (now 92)

The Rookie

1990 5.9

as Eugene Ackerman

Age 57 (now 92)

Knight Moves

1992 5.8

as Frank Sedman

Age 58 (now 92)

Steel Magnolias

1989 7.2

as Drum Eatenton

Age 56 (now 92)

Broke

2025 7.0

as Cliff

Age 91 (now 92)

Alien: Terror in Space

2025 7.0

as Self - Actor

Age 91 (now 92)

A Look Through His Lens

2024

as Self

Age 90 (now 92)

East of the Mountains

2021 5.5

Executive Producer

Age 88 (now 92)

East of the Mountains

2021 5.5

as Ben Givens

Age 88 (now 92)

Catch the Bullet

2021 5.6

as Dex

Age 88 (now 92)

The Phantom 52

2019 9.4

as The Phantom

Age 85 (now 92)

Memory: The Origins of Alien

2019 6.4

as Self

Age 85 (now 92)

Lucky

2017 7.3

as Fred

Age 84 (now 92)

Day of Days

2017 3.5

as Walter

Age 83 (now 92)

Journey Back to Christmas

2016 6.5

as Tobias Cook

Age 83 (now 92)

A Hologram for the King

2016 5.9

as Ron Clay

Age 82 (now 92)

Field of Lost Shoes

2015 6.1

as Ulysses S. Grant

Age 81 (now 92)

The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway

2014 8.0

as Narrator (voice)

Age 81 (now 92)

Wings: Sky Force Heroes

2014 5.4

as Colonel (voice)

Age 80 (now 92)

At Middleton

2013 6.3

as Dr. Roland Emerson

Age 80 (now 92)

Redwood Highway

2013 5.9

as Pete Peterson

Age 79 (now 92)

Ted

2012 6.5

as Tom Skerritt

Age 78 (now 92)

Soda Springs

2012 5.6

as Walt Jackson

Age 78 (now 92)

Redemption Road

2011 5.0

as Santa

Age 78 (now 92)

Your Love Never Fails

2011 5.8

as Jack Connors

Age 77 (now 92)

Over Hawaii

2011

as Narrator (voice)

Age 77 (now 92)

Soaring Over America

2010

Age 76 (now 92)

The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club

2009 6.2

as Narrator

Age 76 (now 92)

For Sale by Owner

2009 3.4

as Clive Farrier

Age 76 (now 92)

Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

2009

as Narrator (voice)

Age 76 (now 92)

Whiteout

2009 5.6

as Dr. John Fury

Age 76 (now 92)

The Velveteen Rabbit

2009 6.6

as Horse (voice)

Age 75 (now 92)

Beer for My Horses

2008 4.7

as Sheriff Wilson Landry

Age 74 (now 92)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

2008 4.6

as Gabe Utterson

Age 74 (now 92)

Bonneville

2006 5.6

as Emmett L. Johnson

Age 73 (now 92)

Fallen

2006 6.9

as Zeke

Age 72 (now 92)

Desperation

2006 5.5

as John Edward Marinville

Age 72 (now 92)

Mammoth

2006 4.6

as Simon Abernathy

Age 72 (now 92)

Vinegar Hill

2005 4.4

as Fritz Grier

Age 71 (now 92)

Homeland Security

2004 4.8

as Admiral McKee

Age 70 (now 92)

The Beast Within: Making Alien

2003 8.2

as Self

Age 70 (now 92)

Path to War

2003 6.7

as William Westmoreland

Age 70 (now 92)

Swing

2003 9.0

as George Verdi

Age 70 (now 92)

Tears of the Sun

2003 6.9

as Captain Bill Rhodes

Age 69 (now 92)

The Alien Saga

2002 6.3

as Self

Age 69 (now 92)

Greenmail

2002 3.8

as Tom Bradshaw

Age 68 (now 92)

Changing Hearts

2002 6.4

as Johnny Pinkley

Age 68 (now 92)

Texas Rangers

2001 6.0

as Richard Dukes

Age 68 (now 92)

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

2000

as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy

Age 67 (now 92)

High Noon

2000 5.7

as Will Kane

Age 66 (now 92)

An American Daughter

2000 4.7

as Walter

Age 66 (now 92)

Enlisted: The Story of 'MAS*H'

2000 6.3

as Self

Age 66 (now 92)

Altman on His Own Terms

2000 9.0

as Self

Age 66 (now 92)

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

1999 4.7

as Fred Maddux

Age 65 (now 92)

Into the Wild Blue

1999 10.0

as Host

Age 65 (now 92)

The Other Sister

1999 6.4

as Radley Tate

Age 65 (now 92)

Smoke Signals

1998 6.8

as Police Chief

Age 64 (now 92)

Two for Texas

1998 6.6

as Sam Houston

Age 64 (now 92)

What the Deaf Man Heard

1997 6.4

as Norm Jenkins

Age 64 (now 92)

Contact

1997 7.4

as David Drumlin

Age 63 (now 92)

Divided by Hate

1997 7.3

Director

Age 63 (now 92)

Divided by Hate

1997 7.3

as Steve Riordan

Age 63 (now 92)

Over America

1995

Age 61 (now 92)

Over California

1994 6.5

as Narrator (voice)

Age 60 (now 92)

A River Runs Through It

1992 7.0

as Rev. Maclean

Age 59 (now 92)

Singles

1992 6.4

as Mayor Weber

Age 59 (now 92)

Getting Up and Going Home

1992 10.0

as Jack Montgomery

Age 58 (now 92)

Poison Ivy

1992 5.5

as Darryl Cooper

Age 58 (now 92)

In Sickness and in Health

1992 4.0

as Jerritt Mattison

Age 58 (now 92)

Knight Moves

1992 5.8

as Frank Sedman

Age 58 (now 92)

Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue

1991 5.3

as Ham McDonald

Age 58 (now 92)

The Rookie

1990 5.9

as Eugene Ackerman

Age 57 (now 92)

She'll Take Romance

1990 4.7

as Judge Warren Danvers

Age 57 (now 92)

A Question About Sex

1990

Director

Age 57 (now 92)

A Question About Sex

1990

as Jim

Age 57 (now 92)

Child in the Night

1990 5.6

as Detective Bass

Age 56 (now 92)

The China Lake Murders

1990 5.4

as Sheriff Sam Brodie

Age 56 (now 92)

Big Man on Campus

1989 6.2

as Dr. Webster

Age 56 (now 92)

Red King, White Knight

1989 6.4

as Stoner

Age 56 (now 92)

Steel Magnolias

1989 7.2

as Drum Eatenton

Age 56 (now 92)

The Heist

1989 4.9

as Ebbet Berens

Age 56 (now 92)

Poltergeist III

1988 5.2

as Bruce Gardner

Age 54 (now 92)

Nightmare at Bittercreek

1988 6.3

as Ding

Age 54 (now 92)

Moving Target

1988 6.1

as Joseph Kellogg

Age 54 (now 92)

Honor Bound

1988 10.0

as Sam Cahill

Age 54 (now 92)

The Big Town

1987 5.5

as Phil Carpenter

Age 54 (now 92)

Maid to Order

1987 5.4

as Charles Montgomery

Age 53 (now 92)

Poker Alice

1987 6.9

as Jeremy Collins

Age 53 (now 92)

Wisdom

1986 6.1

as Lloyd Wisdom

Age 53 (now 92)

Miles to Go…

1986 7.3

as Stuart Browning

Age 53 (now 92)

Opposing Force

1986 4.4

as Logan

Age 52 (now 92)

The Parent Trap II

1986 5.5

as Bill Grand

Age 52 (now 92)

SpaceCamp

1986 5.9

as Zack

Age 52 (now 92)

Top Gun

1986 7.1

as Viper

Age 52 (now 92)

A Touch of Scandal

1984 8.0

as Father Dwelle

Age 51 (now 92)

Calendar Girl Murders

1984 4.7

as Lieutenant Dan Stoner

Age 50 (now 92)

The Dead Zone

1983 7.0

as Sheriff Bannerman

Age 50 (now 92)

A Dangerous Summer

1982 4.1

as Howard Anderson

Age 49 (now 92)

Fighting Back

1982 5.8

as John D'Angelo

Age 48 (now 92)

Silence of the North

1981 7.0

as Walter Reamer

Age 48 (now 92)

Savage Harvest

1981 5.9

as Casey

Age 47 (now 92)

Alien

1979 8.2

as Dallas

Age 45 (now 92)

Ice Castles

1978 7.4

as Marcus Winston

Age 45 (now 92)

Up in Smoke

1978 6.7

as Strawberry

Age 45 (now 92)

Maneaters Are Loose!

1978 10.0

as John Gosford

Age 44 (now 92)

The Turning Point

1977 6.6

as Wayne

Age 44 (now 92)

Plot of Fear

1976 5.6

as Chief Inspector

Age 43 (now 92)

La madama

1976 6.2

as Jack

Age 42 (now 92)

The Devil’s Rain

1975 5.1

as Tom Preston

Age 41 (now 92)

The Last Day

1975 6.5

as Bill Powers

Age 41 (now 92)

Big Bad Mama

1974 5.7

as Fred

Age 41 (now 92)

Run, Run, Joe!

1974 6.0

as Margherito

Age 40 (now 92)

Thieves Like Us

1974 6.5

as Dee Mobley

Age 40 (now 92)

The Birdmen

1973 7.7

as Orville Fitzgerald

Age 40 (now 92)

Fuzz

1972 5.5

as Det. Bert Kling

Age 38 (now 92)

Harold and Maude

1971 7.6

as Motorcycle Officer

Age 38 (now 92)

Wild Rovers

1971 6.1

as John Buckman

Age 37 (now 92)

The Moonshine War

1970 5.7

as Neighbor (uncredited)

Age 36 (now 92)

MAS*H

1970 6.9

as Duke Forrest

Age 36 (now 92)

A Bell for Adano

1967

as Sgt. Trapani

Age 34 (now 92)

The Further Adventures of Gallegher

1965

as Corky Mardis

Age 32 (now 92)

Those Calloways

1964 6.4

as Whit Turner

Age 31 (now 92)

One Man's Way

1964 4.3

as Leonard Peale, Grown

Age 30 (now 92)

War Hunt

1962 6.7

as Sgt. Stan Showalter

Age 28 (now 92)

Tom Skerritt

Alien

Top Gun

The Dead Zone

Contact

A River Runs Through It

M*A*S*H

Poltergeist III

Whiteout

Poison Ivy

Desperation

Tears of the Sun

A Hologram for the King

Lucky

The Rookie

Knight Moves

Steel Magnolias

Broke

Alien: Terror in Space

A Look Through His Lens

East of the Mountains

East of the Mountains

Catch the Bullet

The Phantom 52

Memory: The Origins of Alien

Lucky

Day of Days

Journey Back to Christmas

A Hologram for the King

Field of Lost Shoes

The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway

Wings: Sky Force Heroes

At Middleton

Redwood Highway

Ted

Soda Springs

Redemption Road

Your Love Never Fails

Over Hawaii

Soaring Over America

The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club

For Sale by Owner

Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Whiteout

The Velveteen Rabbit

Beer for My Horses

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bonneville

Fallen

Desperation

Mammoth

Vinegar Hill

Homeland Security

The Beast Within: Making Alien

Path to War

Swing

Tears of the Sun

The Alien Saga

Greenmail

Changing Hearts

Texas Rangers

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

High Noon

An American Daughter

Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'

Altman on His Own Terms

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

Into the Wild Blue

The Other Sister

Smoke Signals

Two for Texas

What the Deaf Man Heard

Contact

Divided by Hate

Divided by Hate

Over America

Over California

A River Runs Through It

Singles

Getting Up and Going Home

MAS*H

Enlisted: The Story of 'MAS*H'

MAS*H