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.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1992
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2004
The West Wing
2003
The Good Wife
2014
Cheers
1987
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Chicago Hope
1997
The Closer
2009
Bonanza
1964
Hawaii Five-O
1970
Will & Grace
2002
Wagon Train
1964

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
199
Directing
3
Producing
1
2025
Broke
as Cliff
2025
Alien: Terror in Space
as Self - Actor
2024
A Look Through His Lens
as Self
2022
Going Home
as Vance Baker
2021
East of the Mountains
as Ben Givens
2021
Catch the Bullet
as Dex
2019
The Phantom 52
as The Phantom
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
2017
Lucky
as Fred
2017
Day of Days
as Walter
2016
A Hologram for the King
as Ron Clay
2016
Journey Back to Christmas
as Tobias Cook
2016
The American West
as Self
2015
Field of Lost Shoes
as Ulysses S. Grant
2015
Madam Secretary
as Patrick McCord
2014
Wings: Sky Force Heroes
as Colonel (voice)
2014
The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
as Narrator (voice)
2014
The Good Wife
as James Paisley
2013
At Middleton
as Roland Emerson
2013
Redwood Highway
as Pete Peterson
2012
Ted
as Tom Skerritt
2012
Soda Springs
as Walt Jackson
2012
White Collar
as Alan Mitchell
2011
Redemption Road
as Santa
2011
Over Hawaii
as Narrator (voice)
2011
Your Love Never Fails
as Jack Connors
2010
Soaring Over America
2010
Leverage
as Jimmy Ford
2009
Whiteout
as Dr. John Fury
2009
For Sale by Owner
as Clive Farrier
2009
The Velveteen Rabbit
as Horse (voice)
2009
Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
as Narrator (voice)
2009
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
as Narrator
2009
The Closer
as Det. Joey 'O' Olin
2008
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Gabe Utterson
2008
Beer for My Horses
as Sheriff Wilson Landry
2008
The Trojan Horse
as President Stanfield
2008
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
as Self
2007
Fallen
as Zeke
2007
The Dead Zone
as Herb Smith
2007
Killer Wave
as Victor Bannister
2006
Desperation
as John Edward Marinville
2006
Mammoth
as Simon Abernathy
2006
Bonneville
as Emmett L. Johnson
2006
Fallen
as Zeke
2006
Brothers and Sisters
as William Walker
2006
Huff
2005
Vinegar Hill
as Fritz Grier
2005
Category 7: The End of the World
as Colonel Mike Davis
2004
Homeland Security
as Admiral McKee
2004
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Oliver Taft
2004
The Grid
2004
Homeland Security
as Admiral Theodore McKee
2003
Path to War
as William Westmoreland
2003
Tears of the Sun
as Captain Bill Rhodes
2003
The Beast Within: Making Alien
as Self
2003
Swing
as George Verdi
2003
The West Wing
as Chris Carrick
2002
Changing Hearts
as Johnny Pinkley
2002
Greenmail
as Tom Bradshaw
2002
The Alien Saga
as Self
2002
Will & Grace
as Dr. Jay Markus
2001
Texas Rangers
as Richard Dukes
2001
History vs. Hollywood
as Self
2000
High Noon
as Will Kane
2000
An American Daughter
as Walter
2000
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
as Self
2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
2000
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
2000
Backstory
as Self
2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy
1999
The Other Sister
as Radley Tate
1999
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
1999
Into the Wild Blue
as Host
1999
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
as Thomas Ahearn
1999
The Hunt For The Unicorn Killer
as Fred Maddux
1999
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1998
Two for Texas
as Sam Houston
1998
Smoke Signals
as Police Chief
1998
E! True Hollywood Story
1997
Contact
as David Drumlin
1997
Divided by Hate
as Steve Riordan
1997
What the Deaf Man Heard
as Norm Jenkins
1997
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Norm Jenkins
1997
Chicago Hope
as Jim Kellner
1995
Over America
1994
Over California
as Narrator (voice)
1994
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1992
A River Runs Through It
as Reverend Maclean
1992
Singles
as Mayor Weber
1992
Knight Moves
as Frank Sedman
1992
Poison Ivy
as Darryl Cooper
1992
Getting Up and Going Home
as Jack Montgomery
1992
In Sickness and in Health
as Jerritt Mattison
1992
Picket Fences
as Jimmy Brock
1992
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1991
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
as Ham McDonald
1990
The Rookie
as Eugene Ackerman
1990
Child in the Night
as Detective Bass
1990
The China Lake Murders
as Sheriff Sam Brodie
1990
She'll Take Romance
as Judge Warren Danvers
1990
A Question About Sex
as Jim
1989
Steel Magnolias
as Drum Eatenton
1989
The Heist
as Ebbet Berens
1989
Big Man on Campus
as Dr. Webster
1989
Red King, White Knight
as Stoner
1988
Poltergeist III
as Bruce Gardner
1988
Nightmare at Bittercreek
as Ding
1988
Moving Target
as Joseph Kellogg
1988
Honor Bound
as Sam Cahill
1987
Maid to Order
as Charles Montgomery
1987
Poker Alice
as Jeremy Collins
1987
The Big Town
as Phil Carpenter
1987
Cheers
as Evan Drake
1986
Top Gun
as Viper
1986
Opposing Force
as Logan
1986
SpaceCamp
as Zack
1986
Wisdom
as Lloyd Wisdom
1986
The Parent Trap II
as Bill Grand
1986
Miles to Go…
as Stuart Browning
1986
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "What Are Friends For?")
1986
The Hitchhiker
as Detective Frank Sheen
1986
Danger Bay
as Don Bared
1984
Calendar Girl Murders
as Lieutenant Dan Stoner
1984
A Touch of Scandal
as Father Dwelle
1983
The Dead Zone
as Sheriff Bannerman
1983
Ryan's Four
as Dr. Thomas Ryan
1982
Fighting Back
as John D'Angelo
1982
A Dangerous Summer
as Howard Anderson
1981
Savage Harvest
as Casey
1981
Silence of the North
as Walter Reamer
1979
Alien
as Dallas
1978
Maneaters Are Loose!
as John Gosford
1978
Ice Castles
as Marcus Winston
1978
Up in Smoke
as Strawberry
1978
Baretta
1977
The Turning Point
as Wayne
1976
Plot of Fear
as Chief Inspector
1976
La madama
as Jack
1976
S.W.A.T.
1976
Origins of the Mafia
as Bernardino Campo
1975
The Devil’s Rain
as Tom Preston
1975
The Last Day
as Bill Powers
1974
Thieves Like Us
as Dee Mobley
1974
Big Bad Mama
as Fred
1974
Run, Run, Joe!
as Margherito
1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
The Manhunter
1974
Get Christie Love!
1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Robert W. Palmer
1973
The Birdmen
as Orville Fitzgerald
1973
Bonanza
as Corporal Bill Tanner
1972
Fuzz
as Det. Bert Kling
1972
The F.B.I.
as Bill Leonard
1972
Gunsmoke
as Tuck Frye
1971
Wild Rovers
as John Buckman
1971
Harold and Maude
as Motorcycle Officer
1971
Cannon
as Bud
1971
Nichols
as Charley Doyle
1971
The F.B.I.
as Thorn Hazard
1970
M*A*S*H
as Duke Forrest
1970
The Moonshine War
as Neighbor (uncredited)
1970
Hawaii Five-O
as Lew Morgan
1970
Gunsmoke
as Fred Garth
1969
Lancer
1969
The Outsider
as Arnie Cambor
1968
Felony Squad
1968
Run for Your Life
as Lou Patterson
1968
The Virginian
as Moran
1968
Cimarron Strip
as Enoch Shelton
1967
A Bell for Adano
as Sgt. Trapani
1967
Mannix
as Morgan Carpenter
1967
The F.B.I.
as John Clarence Rim
1967
Combat!
as Sgt. Decker
1966
The Time Tunnel
as Matthew Gebhardt
1966
The F.B.I.
as Robert Hastings
1966
The Fugitive
as Pete Edwards
1966
12 O'Clock High
as Lt. Paddy Gialella
1966
Combat!
as Burke
1966
Gunsmoke
as Ben Stone
1966
Gunsmoke
as Orv Timpson
1965
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
as Corky Mardis
1965
Gunsmoke
as Edmund Dano
1965
Combat!
as Hicks
1965
The Fugitive
as Neely Hollister
1965
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Corky Mardis
1965
The Virginian
as Billy Landers
1965
12 O'Clock High
as Lt. Steve Parmalee
1964
One Man's Way
as Leonard Peale, Grown
1964
Those Calloways
as Whit Turner
1964
The Virginian
as Rev. Paul Martinson
1964
Bonanza
as Jerry
1964
Wagon Train
as Hamish Browne
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Frank Farmer
1963
The Real McCoys
as Mailman
1962
War Hunt
as Sgt. Stan Showalter
1962
The Virginian
as Eric Kroeger