
Acting
Born August 25, 1933 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.

Broke
2025

Alien: Terror in Space
2025
A Look Through His Lens
2024

East of the Mountains
2021

Catch the Bullet
2021

The Phantom 52
2019

Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019

Lucky
2017

Day of Days
2017

Journey Back to Christmas
2016

A Hologram for the King
2016

Field of Lost Shoes
2015

The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
2014

Wings: Sky Force Heroes
2014

At Middleton
2013

Redwood Highway
2013

Ted
2012

Soda Springs
2012

Redemption Road
2011

Your Love Never Fails
2011

Over Hawaii
2011

Soaring Over America
2010

The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
2009

For Sale by Owner
2009

Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
2009

Whiteout
2009

The Velveteen Rabbit
2009

Beer for My Horses
2008

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2008

Over America
2008

Bonneville
2006

Fallen
2006

Desperation
2006

Mammoth
2006

Category 7: The End of the World
2005

Vinegar Hill
2005

Homeland Security
2004

The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003

Path to War
2003

Swing
2003

Tears of the Sun
2003

The Alien Saga
2002

Greenmail
2002

Changing Hearts
2002

Texas Rangers
2001

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000

High Noon
2000

An American Daughter
2000
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000

Altman on His Own Terms
2000

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999

Into the Wild Blue
1999

The Other Sister
1999

Smoke Signals
1998

Two for Texas
1998

What the Deaf Man Heard
1997

Contact
1997

Divided by Hate
1997
Over California in High Definition
1994

A River Runs Through It
1992

Singles
1992

Getting Up and Going Home
1992

Poison Ivy
1992

In Sickness and in Health
1992

Knight Moves
1992

Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991

The Rookie
1990

She'll Take Romance
1990

A Question About Sex
1990

Child in the Night
1990

The China Lake Murders
1990

Big Man on Campus
1989

Red King, White Knight
1989

Steel Magnolias
1989

The Heist
1989

Poltergeist III
1988

Nightmare at Bittercreek
1988

Moving Target
1988

Honor Bound
1988

The Big Town
1987

Maid to Order
1987

Poker Alice
1987

Wisdom
1986

Miles to Go…
1986

Opposing Force
1986

The Parent Trap II
1986

SpaceCamp
1986

Top Gun
1986

A Touch of Scandal
1984

Calendar Girl Murders
1984

The Dead Zone
1983

A Dangerous Summer
1982

Fighting Back
1982

Silence of the North
1981

Savage Harvest
1981

Alien
1979

Ice Castles
1978

Up in Smoke
1978

Maneaters Are Loose!
1978

The Turning Point
1977

Plot of Fear
1976

La madama
1976

The Devil’s Rain
1975

The Last Day
1975

Big Bad Mama
1974

Run, Run, Joe!
1974

Thieves Like Us
1974

The Birdmen
1973

Fuzz
1972

Harold and Maude
1971

Wild Rovers
1971

The Moonshine War
1970

M*A*S*H
1970

A Bell for Adano
1967

The Further Adventures of Gallegher
1965

Those Calloways
1964

One Man's Way
1964

War Hunt
1962