Acting credits
180
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Tom Skerritt
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.8
Moderate attention
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Movies: 115Series: 66Crew credits: 4
TMDB ID: 4139
IMDb ID: nm0000643
Known for: Acting
Born: August 25, 1933
Age: 92
Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2025
Years active: 82
Average TMDB rating: 6.58
Wikidata: Q320093
Also known as
Tom Skerrit • Thomas Roy Skerritt • Τομ Σκέριτ • 汤姆·斯凯里特 • 톰 스커릿 • 湯姆·史基瑞 • M. Borman • تام اسکریت • Thomas Skerritt
Other jobs
Director (3)Executive Producer (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Tom Skerritt.
7.0
Broke
as Cliff
2025 Movie
6.8
Alien: Terror in Space
as Self - Actor
2025 Movie
5.3
East of the Mountains
as Ben Givens
2021 Movie
5.6
Catch the Bullet
as Dex
2021 Movie
9.4
The Phantom 52
as The Phantom
2019 Movie
6.3
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
2019 Movie
7.3
Lucky
as Fred
2017 Movie
3.5
Day of Days
as Walter
2017 Movie
6.5
Journey Back to Christmas
as Tobias Cook
2016 Movie
5.9
A Hologram for the King
as Ron Clay
2016 Movie
6.1
Field of Lost Shoes
as Ulysses S. Grant
2015 Movie
8.0
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
as Narrator (voice)
2014 Movie
5.4
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Colonel (voice)
2014 Movie
6.2
At Middleton
as Dr. Roland Emerson
2013 Movie
5.9
Redwood Highway
as Pete Peterson
2013 Movie
6.4
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
2012 Movie
5.6
Soda Springs
as Walt Jackson
2012 Movie
5.0
Redemption Road
as Santa
2011 Movie
5.8
Your Love Never Fails
as Jack Connors
2011 Movie
Over Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
2011 Movie
Soaring Over America
2010 Movie
6.2
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
as Narrator
2009 Movie
3.3
For Sale by Owner
as Clive Farrier
2009 Movie
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
as Narrator (voice)
2009 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Tom Skerritt.
Going Home
as Vance Baker • 1 eps
2022 Series
6.7
The American West
as Self • 8 eps
2016 Series
7.0
Madam Secretary
as Patrick McCord • 1 eps
2014 Series
8.2
White Collar
as Alan Mitchell • 1 eps
2009 Series
7.6
The Good Wife
as James Paisley • 2 eps
2009 Series
7.6
Leverage
as Jimmy Ford • 2 eps
2008 Series
4.0
The Trojan Horse
as President Stanfield • 2 eps
2008 Series
6.7
Fallen
as Zeke • 1 eps
2007 Series
7.3
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
as Self • 1 eps
2007 Series
6.2
Killer Wave
as Victor Bannister • 2 eps
2007 Series
7.1
Brothers and Sisters
as William Walker • 6 eps
2006 Series
6.7
Category 7: The End of the World
as Colonel Mike Davis • 2 eps
2005 Series
6.9
The Colbert Report
as Viper (archive footage) • 1 eps
2005 Series
7.9
The Closer
as Det. Joey 'O' Olin • 1 eps
2005 Series
7.7
Huff
2 eps
2004 Series
6.5
The Grid
6 eps
2004 Series
Homeland Security
as Admiral Theodore McKee • 1 eps
2004 Series
7.3
The Dead Zone
as Herb Smith • 1 eps
2002 Series
7.7
History vs. Hollywood
as Self • 1 eps
2001 Series
6.0
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy • 2 eps
2000 Series
6.5
Backstory
as Self • 1 eps
2000 Series
7.0
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
as Thomas Ahearn • 2 eps
1999 Series
8.3
The West Wing
as Chris Carrick • 1 eps
1999 Series
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Oliver Taft • 1 eps
1999 Series