Tom Skerritt

Acting · Born 1933-08-25 in 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.

Filmography

• A River Runs Through It as Rev. Maclean
• M*A*S*H as Duke Forrest
• Contact as David Drumlin
• Top Gun as Viper
• Steel Magnolias as Drum Eatenton
• The Dead Zone as Sheriff Bannerman
• Harold and Maude as Motorcycle Officer
• Alien as Dallas
• Lucky as Fred
• Desperation as John Edward Marinville

TV

• The Time Tunnel as Matthew Gebhardt
• The Twilight Zone as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Oliver Taft
• Combat! as Hicks
• White Collar as Alan Mitchell
• The West Wing as Chris Carrick
• Combat! as Burke
• Combat! as Sgt. Decker
• The Closer as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
• Brothers and Sisters as William Walker