Biography
Thomas Roy Skerritt was an American actor and director who appeared in over 170 film and television productions between 1962 and 2025. The beginning of his film career coincided with the New Hollywood movement, with a breakthrough role as Duke Forrest in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H (1970). He then starred in notable films like The Turning Point (1977), Up in Smoke (1978), Ice Castles (1978), Alien (1979), The Dead Zone (1983), Top Gun (1986), SpaceCamp (1986), Steel Magnolias (1989), and A River Runs Through It (1992).
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Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series · 1993
- Mary Pickford Award
Filmography50+ titles
Getting Up and Going Home
Swing
The West Wing
White Collar
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Alien
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Closer
Combat!
Huff
The Time Tunnel
The Good Wife
Leverage
Cheers
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Harold and Maude
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Picket Fences
Bonanza
Contact
Ice Castles
Lucky
The Dead Zone
The Fugitive
Steel Magnolias
Hawaii Five-O
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Brothers and Sisters
Top Gun
S.W.A.T.
Broke
Madam Secretary
The Colbert Report
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
A River Runs Through It
The Dead Zone
Tears of the Sun
Will & Grace
Poker Alice
M*A*S*H
Mannix
Smoke Signals
The American West
Path to War
Up in Smoke
War Hunt
Gunsmoke
Fallen