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Tom Skerritt is an American television, film, and character actor, as well as a model. Born Thomas Roy Skerritt in Detroit, Michigan, on August 25, 1933, he began his work period in 1962. He is a male who speaks and writes in English. His religious worldview is Scientology.
Skerritt has received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He was educated at Wayne State University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He currently resides in Lake Washington, San Juan Islands.
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Film & TV
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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…
Known for
- Broke — Cliff2025
- Alien: Terror in Space — Self - Actor2025
- A Look Through His Lens — Self2024
- Going Home — Vance Baker2022
- East of the Mountains — Ben Givens2021
- Catch the Bullet — Dex2021
- The Phantom 52 — The Phantom2019
- Memory: The Origins of Alien — Self2019
- Lucky — Fred2017
- Day of Days — Walter2017
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Key facts
- Born
- Thomas Roy Skerritt , ( 1933-08-25 ) August 25, 1933 (age 92) , Detroit , Michigan , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actor director
- Years active
- 1962–present
- Spouses
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- Branch
- United States Air Force
- Service years
- 1951–1955
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Occupation
- film producer
- Educated at
- UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Scientology
- Image
- Tom Skerritt 2014 (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- San Juan Islands
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- Tom Skerritt
- date of birth
- 1933-08-25
- birth name
- Thomas Roy Skerritt
- name in native language
- Tom Skerritt
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor and director, who has appeared in over 170 film and television productions since 1962. 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, Ice Castles (both 1978), Alien (1979), The Dead Zone (1983), Top Gun (1986), and A River Runs Through It (1992).
On television, Skerritt played the leading role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock on the family drama Picket Fences (1992–1996), earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations. He also had a recurring role as Evan Drake on the sixth season of sitcom Cheers (1987–1988).
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