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.
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
The Closer
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Combat!
Huff
The Good Wife
Leverage
Cheers
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Harold and Maude
The Time Tunnel
Picket Fences
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Bonanza
Contact
Ice Castles
Lucky
The Dead Zone
The Fugitive
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Steel Magnolias
Hawaii Five-O
Brothers and Sisters
Top Gun
S.W.A.T.
Broke
Madam Secretary
A River Runs Through It
The Dead Zone
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
The Colbert Report
Tears of the Sun
Will & Grace
M*A*S*H
Smoke Signals
Mannix
The American West
Path to War
Up in Smoke
War Hunt
Gunsmoke
Category 7: The End of the World
Two for Texas