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Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 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, Poltergeist III, and Up in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences. Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences.

Tom Skerritt
Skerritt in 2014
Born	Thomas Roy Skerritt (1933-08-25) August 25, 1933 (age 89) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater	Wayne State University University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1962–present
Spouses	Charlotte Shanks ​ ​ (m. 1957; div. 1972)​ Sue Oran ​ ​ (m. 1977; div. 1992)​ Julie Tokashiki ​ ​ (m. 1998)​
Children	5
Military career
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Air Force
Years of service	1951–1955

Early life

Skerritt was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Helen, a homemaker, and Roy Skerritt, a businessman. He is the youngest of three children.[1][2][3][4] A 1951 graduate of Detroit's Mackenzie High School,[4] Skerritt attended Wayne State University and the University of California, Los Angeles.[5]

Skerritt enlisted just after graduating from high school, and served a four-year tour of duty in the United States Air Force as a classifications specialist. Most of his enlistment was spent at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas.[6]

Career

Skerritt made his film debut in War Hunt, produced by Terry Sanders and released in 1962. Skerritt's notable film appearances include M*A*S*H (1970), Harold and Maude (credited as "M. Borman", 1971), Fuzz, Big Bad Mama, Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke (1978), Ice Castles (1978), as Captain Dallas in Alien (1979),[7] as a would-be astronaut in Contact (1997) and SpaceCamp (1986), and in Top Gun (1986) as Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf. In 1988, he starred with Nancy Allen and Lara Flynn Boyle in Poltergeist III. In 1989, he played the role of Thomas Drummond "Drum" Eatenton in Steel Magnolias. In 1992, he appeared in the critically acclaimed Robert Redford-directed film A River Runs Through It, playing a fly-fishing loving minister and father of the two protagonist brothers in the film.

Skerritt played a guest part in Ray Walston's show My Favorite Martian in the 1963 episode "Mrs. Jekyll and Hyde" (Walston was a regular cast member 30 years later in Skerritt's show Picket Fences). He also guest-starred in the television series The Real McCoys (1963), as a letter carrier in the episode "Aunt Win Steps In". He was cast in Bonanza in 1964 and on Death Valley Days in 1965, as a young gambler, Patrick Hogan, who meets a tragic fate after winning a small fortune in a saloon. In another Death Valley Days episode, "A Sense of Justice" (1966), he played a young Roy Bean with his older brother, Joshua Bean, played by Tris Coffin. In a later Death Valley Days role, Skerritt played Mark Twain in the 1968 episode "Ten Day Millionaires", with Dabney Coleman as Twain's mining partner, Calvin H. Higby. The two lose a fortune in gold, but Twain learns his future is in writing. In 1972, Skerritt guest-starred in an episode of Cannon, entitled "Nobody Beats the House," playing the role of a young gambler.[8] In 1975, he guest-starred in another episode of Cannon entitled "The Conspirators," playing the role of a corrupt sheriff.[9]

Skerritt appeared in the ABC series Twelve O'Clock High (1964–1967), five episodes; Gunsmoke (1965–1972, also five episodes), and as Evan Drake on Cheers. He then appeared in CBS's Picket Fences (1992–1996), in the role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock, for which he won an Emmy Award. More recently, he has starred in Homeland Security and The Grid.

He portrayed the deceased William Walker on Brothers & Sisters, having appeared in the pilot and several flashbacks scenes. This was his second time playing the husband of Sally Field; the first was in Steel Magnolias.

He played the role of Ezekiel on ABC Family's miniseries Fallen alongside Paul Wesley. He also appeared as the guide on the showcase website for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. He lent his voice in the video game Gun (2005), where he voices Clay Allison. He then guest-starred in seasons three and four of Leverage as Nate Ford's father.[10]

In February 2012, Skerritt played the title role in Pacific Northwest Ballet's production of Don Quixote.[11] In 2014, Skerritt was reunited with his ex-Picket Fences co-star, Lauren Holly, to star with her in Field of Lost Shoes.[12] He was reunited with his Alien co-star Harry Dean Stanton in Lucky, the latter's last film (2017).

Skerritt is founder and chairman of Heyou Media, a Seattle-based digital media company.[13]

Personal life

Since 1988, he has divided his time between his Lake Washington home in suburban Seattle, Washington, and a second home on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands.

From 1957 to 1972, Skerritt was married to Charlotte Shanks, with whom he has three children: Andy, Erin, and Matt. He was married to Sue Oran from 1977 to 1992, with whom he has a son, Colin. Since 1996, he has been married to Julie Tokashiki. They have one daughter, Emi.[14][15][16]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1962	War Hunt	Sergeant Stan Showalter
1964	One Man's Way	Leonard Peal (Grown)
1965	Those Calloways	Whit Turner
1970	M*A*S*H	Captain Augustus Bedford "Duke" Forrest
1971	Wild Rovers	John Buckman
	Harold and Maude	Motorcycle Officer	Credited as M. Borman
1972	Fuzz	Detective Bert Kling
1974	Thieves Like Us	Dee Mobley
	Run, Run, Joe!	Margherito
	Big Bad Mama	Fred Diller
1975	The Devil's Rain	Tom Preston
1976	Plot of Fear	Chief Inspector
	Madama, La	Rick Dylan
1977	The Turning Point	Wayne Rodgers
1978	Up in Smoke	Strawberry
	Ice Castles	Marcus Winston
1979	Alien	Captain Arthur Dallas
1981	A Dangerous Summer	Howard Anderson
	Savage Harvest	Casey
	Silence of the North	Walter Reamer
1982	Fighting Back	John D'Angelo
1983	The Dead Zone	Sheriff George Bannerman
1986	Top Gun	CDR Mike "Viper" Metcalf
	SpaceCamp	Zach Bergstrom
	Opposing Force	Logan
	Wisdom	Lloyd Wisdom
1987	Maid to Order	Charles Montgomery
	The Big Town	Phil Carpenter
1988	Honor Bound	Sam Cahill
	Poltergeist III	Bruce Gardner
1989	Big Man on Campus	Dr. Webster
	Steel Magnolias	Drum Eatenton
1990	The Rookie	Eugene Ackerman
1992	Poison Ivy	Darryl Cooper
	Knight Moves	Captain Frank Sedman
	Wild Orchid 2: Two Shades of Blue	Ham McDonald	Direct-to-video release
	A River Runs Through It	Reverend John Maclean
	Singles	Mayor Weber
1997	Contact	David Drumlin
1998	Smoke Signals	Police Chief
1999	The Other Sister	Dr. Radley Tate
2001	Texas Rangers	Richard Dukes
2002	Tuscaloosa
	Changing Hearts	Johnny Pinkley
	Greenmail	Tom Bradshaw	Direct-to-video release
2003	Tears of the Sun	Captain Bill Rhodes
	Swing	George Verdi
2006	Bonneville	Emmett
2006	Stephen King's Desperation	Johnny Marinville
2007	The Velveteen Rabbit	Horse
2008	Beer for My Horses	Sheriff Wilson Landry
2009	Whiteout	Dr. John Fury
	For Sale by Owner	Clive Farrier
	Rivers of a Lost Coast	Narrator
2010	Redemption Road	Santa
2011	Your Love Never Fails	Jack
2012	Ted	Himself
	Soda Springs	Walt Jackson
	Wings	Colonel
2013	Redwood Highway	Pete
2014	Field of Lost Shoes	Ulysses S. Grant
	Wings: Sky Force Heroes	Colonel
2016	A Hologram for the King	Ron Clay
2017	Lucky	Fred
	Day of Days	Mr. Walter
2021	East of the Mountains	Ben Givens
	Catch The Bullet	Dex

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1962–1967	Combat!	Soldier (uncredited) / Glinski (uncredited) / Hicks / Burke / Sergeant Decker	Episode: Combat Front Episode: A Day in June Episode: The Prisoner Episode: Losers Cry Deal Episode: Nothing to Lose Episode: The Gantlet
1962–1971	The Virginian	Eric Kroeger / Reverend Paul Martin / Billy Landers / Moran / Rafe / Bobby Allen	Episode: Impasse (aired 1962) Episode: The Secret of Brynmar Hall Episode: The Showdown Episode: The Crooked Path Episode: The Saddle Warmer Episode: Nan Allen
1963	Laramie	Price	Episode: No Place to Run
	The Real McCoys	Mailman	Episode: Aunt Win Steps In
	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Dr. Frank Farmer	Episode: Run for Doom
	My Three Sons	Young Steve	Episode: The Proposals
1963–1968	Death Valley Days	Emmett Dalton / Dennis Driscoll / Patrick Hogan / Roy Bean / Sam Clemens	Episode: Three Minutes to Eternity Episode: Honor the Name Dennis Driscoll Episode: The Book Episode: Sense of Justice Episode: Ten Day Millionaires
1964	Wagon Train	Hamish Browne	Episode: The Last Circle Up
	My Favorite Martian	Dr. Edgar Edgarton	Episode: Miss Jekyll and Hyde
1964–1967	12 O'Clock High	Lieutenant Ryan / Lieutenant Parmalee / Sergeant Ben Rodale / Lieutenant Paddy Gialella / Technical Sergeant Neely	Episode: Soldiers Sometimes Kill Episode: Those Who Are About to Die Episode: The Came the Mighty Hunter Episode: Twenty Fifth Mission Episode: Long Time Dead
1964-1973	Bonanza	Jerry / Corporal Bill Tanner	Episode: Thanks for Everything, Friend Episode: The Hunter
1965	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Frank Richardson	Episode: The Enemies
	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color	Corky Mardis	Episode: ...The Daily Press vs. City Hall
1965-1966	The Fugitive	Neely Hollister / Pete Edwards	Episode: Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet Episode: Joshua's Kingdom
1965–1972	Gunsmoke	Edmund Dano / Ben Stone / Orv Timpson / Fred Garth / Tuck Frye	Episode: The Pretender Episode: The Jailer Episode: The Moonstone Episode: The Noose Episode: Jubilee
1966	The Time Tunnel	Matthew Gebhardt	Episode: The Death Trap
1966–1972	The F.B.I.	Robert Hastings / John Clarence Rim / Thorn Hazard / Bill Leonard	Episode: The Assassin Episode: The Legend of John Rim Episode: Unknown Victim Episode: The Deadly Species
1967	Mannix	Morgan Carpenter	Episode: Warning - Live Blueberries
	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Trapani	Episode: A Bell for Adano
1968	Cimarron Strip	Enoch Shelton	Episode: Knife in the Darkness
	Run for Your Life	Lou Patterson	Episode: The Killing Scene
	Felony Squad	Gerald Gardner	Episode: Matched for Murder
1969	The Outsider	Arnie Cambor	Episode: A Bowl of Cherries
	Lancer	Bill Blake	Episode: The Knot
1970	Hawaii Five-O	Lew Morgan	Episode: Most Likely to Murder
	Medical Center	Artie Atwood	Episode: Between Dark and Daylight
	The Name of the Game	Pete	Episode: Cynthia is Alive and Living in Avalon
	Bracken's World	Gil Dobie	Episode: A Team of One-Legged Acrobats
1971	Storefront Lawyers	Paul Marek	Episode: This Money Kills Dreams
	The Birdmen	Orville "Fitz" Fitzgerald	ABC Television film
	Nichols	Charley Doyle	Episode: The Marrying Fool
1971–1975	Cannon	Dude / Toby Hauser / Sheriff Andrews	Episode: The Salinas Jackpot Episode: Nobody Beats the House Episode: The Conspirators
1974	Get Christie Love!	Unknown	Episode: Deadly Betrayal
	Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Senator Robert W. Palmer	Episode: The Devil's Platform
	The Manhunter	Barry Richards	Episode: Flight to Nowhere
1975	The Last Day	Bill Powers	NBC Television film
	Barnaby Jones	Darrin Addison	Episode: Image of Evil
1976	SWAT	Maynard Hill	Episode: Dragons and Owls
	Sara	Newt Johnson	Episode: "The Child Bride"
	Alle origini della mafia	Bernardino Campo	ITC Miniseries Episode: La Speranza
1978	Baretta	Al Brimmer	Episode: The Appointment
	Maneaters are Loose!	John Gosford	CBS Television film
1983	Ryan's Four	Dr. Thomas Ryan	5 episodes
1984	Calendar Girl Murders	Lieutenant Dan Stoner	ABC Television film
	A Touch of Scandal	Father Dwelle	CBS Television film
1986	Miles to Go...	Stuart Browning	CBS Television film
	The Hitchhiker	Detective Frank Sheen	Episode: True Believer
	The Parent Trap II	Bill Grand	ABC Television film
	The Twilight Zone	Alex Mattingly	Episode: What Are Friends For?
	Danger Bay	Don Bared	Episode: The Fish Who Walks
1987	Poker Alice	Jeremy Collins	CBS Television film Based on the frontier gambler Poker Alice, with Elizabeth Taylor in the lead role
1987–1988	Cheers	Evan Drake	Episode: A Kiss is Still a Kiss Episode: Tale of Two Cuties Episode: Yacht of Fools Episode: Let Sleeping Drakes Lie Episode: The Sam in the Grey Flannel Suit Episode: Backseat Becky, Up Front
1988	Moving Target	Joseph Kellogg	NBC Television film
	Nightmare at Bittercreek	Ding	CBS Television film
1989	The Heist	Ebbet Berens	HBO Television film
	Red King, White Knight	Stoner	HBO Television film
1990	The China Lake Murders	Sheriff Sam Brodie	Television film
	Child in the Night	Bass	CBS Television film
	ABC Afterschool Special	Jim	Episode: A Question About Sex
	She'll Take Romance	Judge Warren Danvers	ABC Television film
1992	Getting Up and Going Home	Jack Montgomery	Television film
	In Sickness and in Health	Jarrett Mattison	CBS Television film
1992–1996	Picket Fences	Sheriff Jimmy Brock	87 episodes
1997	Divided by Hate	Steve Riordan	USA Television film
	Chicago Hope	Jim Kellner	Episode: Guns N' Roses
	What the Deaf Man Heard	Norm Jenkins	CBS Television film
1998	Two for Texas	Sam Houston	TNT Television film
1999	Into the Wild Blue	Host	History Documentary
	The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer	Fred Maddux	NBC Miniseries
	Aftershock: Earthquake in New York	Thomas Ahearn	CBS Television film
2000	An American Daughter	Walter	Lifetime Television film
	High Noon	Will Kane	TBS Television film
	Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis	Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy	CBS Television film
2001	Chestnut Hill	Daniel Eastman	Unsold TV-Pilot
	The Voyage to Atlantis: The Lost Empire	Host	Short Documentary
2002	Path to War	General William Westmoreland	HBO Television film
	Will & Grace	Dr. Jay Markus	Episode: The Needle and the Omelet's Done
2003	Biography	Passages Read By	Episode: Jack London - Forces of Nature
	The West Wing	Senator Chris Carrick	Episode: Constituency of One
2004	Homeland Security	Admiral McKee	NBC Television film
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Judge Oliver Taft	Episode: Poison
	The Grid	CIA Deputy Director Acton Sandman	TNT Miniseries
2005	Vinegar Hill	Fritz Grier	CBS Television film
	Category 7: The End of the World	Colonel Mike Davis	CBS Miniseries
2006	Mammoth	Simon Abernathy	Sci-Fi Television film
	Huff	Ben Huffstodt	Episode: Red Meat Episode: So...What Brings You to Armageddon? Episode: Radio Silence
	Desperation	John Edward Marinville	ABC Television film
	Fallen	Zeke	ABC Miniseries
2006–2008	Brothers & Sisters	William Walker	Episode: Patriarchy (pilot) Episode: Mistakes Were Made (Part 1 & 2) Episode: Love Is Difficult Episode: Prior Commitments Episode: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
2007	Killer Wave	Victor Bannister	Miniseries
	The Dead Zone	Herb Smith	Episode: Denouement
2008	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!	Himself	Episode: "Pepperoni"
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Gabe Utterson	Television film
	The Trojan Horse	President Stanfield	CBC Miniseries
2010	Leverage	Jimmy Ford	Episode: "The Three Card Monte Job"
	The Closer	Joey O.	Episode: "Elysian Fields"
2012	Leverage	Jimmy Ford	Episode: "The Radio Job"
	White Collar	Alan Mitchell	Episode: "Pulling Strings"
2014	The Good Wife	James Paisley	Episode: "We, the Juries" Episode: "The One Percent"
2015	Madam Secretary	Patrick McCord	Episode: "Chains of Command"
2016	Journey Back to Christmas	Tobias Cook	Television film

Video game

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Alien: Isolation	Arthur Dallas	Voice; Nostromo Edition

Awards and nominations

Association	Nominated Work	Year	Category	Results	Ref
American Television Awards	Picket Fences	1993	Best Actor in a Dramatic Series	Nominated
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Contact	1998	Favorite Supporting Actor — Drama	Nominated
DVD Exclusive Awards	Alien	2003	Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD) (for reissue – Alien Quadrilogy)	Won
Emmy Awards (Primetime)	Picket Fences	1993	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series	Won	[17]
		1994		Nominated
Genie Awards	Silence of the North	1982	Best Performance by a Foreign Actor	Nominated
Golden Globes	Picket Fences	1994	Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama	Nominated	[18]
		1995		Nominated
Key West Film Festival	Alien The Phantom 52	2019	Career Achievement Award	Won
National Board of Review Awards	The Turning Point	1977	Best Supporting Actor	Won
Satellite Awards	East of the Mountains	2022	Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama	Nominated
	—	2022	Mary Pickford Award	Won
Saturn Awards	Leverage	2012	Best Guest Performance in a Television Series	Won
Screen Actors Guild Awards	Picket Fences	1995	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series	Nominated	[19]
			Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Nominated
		1996		Nominated	[20]
Viewers for Quality Television Awards	Picket Fences	1993	Best Actor in a Quality Drama Series	Nominated
	Picket Fences	1994	Best Actor in a Quality Drama Series	Nominated
Western Heritage Awards	Two for Texas	1999	Television Feature Film	Won

Notes

References

External links

• Tom Skerritt at IMDb 

На других языках

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[de] Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt (* 25. August 1933 als Thomas Roy Skerritt in Detroit, Michigan) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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- [en] Tom Skerritt

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[es] Tom Skerritt

Thomas Roy Skerritt (Detroit, Míchigan, 25 de agosto de 1933), más conocido como Tom Skerritt, es un actor estadounidense.

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[ru] Скерритт, Том

То́мас Рой Ске́рритт (англ. Thomas Roy Skerritt, род. 25 августа 1933) — американский актёр. Лауреат премии «Эмми», а также номинант на два «Золотых глобуса».

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