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.
A River Runs Through It
Rev. Maclean
M*A*S*H
Duke Forrest
Contact
David Drumlin
Desperation
John Edward Marinville
Top Gun
Viper
Poltergeist III
Bruce Gardner
Maid to Order
Charles Montgomery
Steel Magnolias
Drum Eatenton
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
Ham McDonald
Fuzz
Det. Bert Kling
Singles
Mayor Weber
The Dead Zone
Sheriff Bannerman
Whiteout
Dr. John Fury
Path to War
William Westmoreland
Knight Moves
Frank Sedman
Savage Harvest
Casey
The Rookie
Eugene Ackerman
One Man's Way
Leonard Peale, Grown
The Moonshine War
Neighbor (uncredited)
Maneaters Are Loose!
John Gosford
Thieves Like Us
Dee Mobley
For Sale by Owner
Clive Farrier
War Hunt
Sgt. Stan Showalter
Poison Ivy
Darryl Cooper
Tears of the Sun
Captain Bill Rhodes
Texas Rangers
Richard Dukes
Opposing Force
Logan
SpaceCamp
Zack
Wisdom
Lloyd Wisdom
Mammoth
Simon Abernathy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Gabe Utterson
The Velveteen Rabbit
Horse (voice)
Wild Rovers
John Buckman
Those Calloways
Whit Turner
The Turning Point
Wayne
Plot of Fear
Chief Inspector
Big Bad Mama
Fred
The Devil's Rain
Tom Preston
Bonneville
Emmett L. Johnson
The Other Sister
Radley Tate
Divided by Hate
Steve Riordan
Fallen
Zeke
The Parent Trap II
Bill Grand
Ice Castles
Marcus Winston
Changing Hearts
Johnny Pinkley
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Self
High Noon
Will Kane
Ted
Tom Skerritt
The Heist
Ebbet Berens
Redemption Road
Santa
A Bell for Adano
Sgt. Trapani
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
Corky Mardis
Soda Springs
Walt Jackson
Vinegar Hill
Fritz Grier
Swing
George Verdi
Fighting Back
John D'Angelo
Homeland Security
Admiral McKee
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Fred Maddux
Two for Texas
Sam Houston
A Dangerous Summer
Howard Anderson
Calendar Girl Murders
Lieutenant Dan Stoner
An American Daughter
Walter
Child in the Night
Detective Bass
The China Lake Murders
Sheriff Sam Brodie
Poker Alice
Jeremy Collins
At Middleton
Dr. Roland Emerson
Greenmail
Tom Bradshaw
Over Hawaii
Narrator (voice)
Nightmare at Bittercreek
Ding
Moving Target
Joseph Kellogg
Big Man on Campus
Dr. Webster
Redwood Highway
Pete Peterson
Run, Run, Joe!
Margherito
A Hologram for the King
Ron Clay
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Narrator (voice)
Red King, White Knight
Stoner
Broke
Cliff
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
Colonel (voice)
La madama
Jack
Up in Smoke
Strawberry
The Big Town
Phil Carpenter
Silence of the North
Walter Reamer
Beer for My Horses
Sheriff Wilson Landry
The Last Day
Bill Powers
She'll Take Romance
Judge Warren Danvers
Getting Up and Going Home
Jack Montgomery
Your Love Never Fails
Jack Connors
Harold and Maude
Motorcycle Officer
Soaring Over America
What the Deaf Man Heard
Norm Jenkins
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
Alien
Dallas
Field of Lost Shoes
Ulysses S. Grant
Miles to Go…
Stuart Browning
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
Narrator (voice)
A Touch of Scandal
Father Dwelle
The Alien Saga
Self
Journey Back to Christmas
Tobias Cook
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
Narrator
Category 7: The End of the World
Colonel Mike Davis
Lucky
Fred
In Sickness and in Health
Jerritt Mattison
Honor Bound
Sam Cahill
Day of Days
Walter
Over America
The Phantom 52
The Phantom
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Self
Smoke Signals
Police Chief
Into the Wild Blue
Host
East of the Mountains
Ben Givens
The Birdmen
Orville Fitzgerald
Catch the Bullet
Dex
A Question About Sex
Jim
Alien: Terror in Space
Self - Actor
Altman on His Own Terms
Self