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Tom Skerritt

Born 1933 · American actor

Thomas Roy Skerritt 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, Alien (1979), The Dead Zone (1983), Top Gun (1986), and A River Runs Through It (1992).

Tom Skerritt, in order

  1. 1962 War Hunt: acted · directed by Denis Sanders · audiences 45% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  2. 1965 Those Calloways: acted · directed by Norman Tokar
  3. 1970 MASH: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 86%, audiences 82% · streaming on fuboTV
  4. 1971 Harold and Maude: acted · directed by Hal Ashby · critics 85%, audiences 93% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, YouTube (free)
  5. 1971 The Birdmen: acted · directed by Philip Leacock
  6. 1971 Wild Rovers: acted · directed by Blake Edwards · critics 60%, audiences 46% · streaming on Tubi
  7. 1972 Fuzz: acted · directed by Richard A. Colla
  8. 1974 Big Bad Mama: acted · directed by Steve Carver
  9. 1974 Run, Run, Joe!: acted · directed by Giuseppe Colizzi
  10. 1974 Thieves Like Us: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 78%, audiences 72%
  11. 1975 The Devil's Rain: acted · directed by Robert Fuest · critics 31%, audiences 33% · streaming on Philo, AMC+, Roku Channel
  12. 1976 Origins of the Mafia (TV series): acted · directed by Enzo Muzii
  13. 1976 Plot of Fear: acted · directed by Paolo Cavara
  14. 1976 Sexycop: acted · directed by Duccio Tessari
  15. 1977 The Turning Point: acted · directed by Herbert Ross
  16. 1978 Ice Castles: acted · directed by Donald Wrye
  17. 1978 Up in Smoke: acted · directed by Lou Adler and Tommy Chong
  18. 1979 Alien: acted · directed by Ridley Scott · critics 93%, audiences 94% · streaming on Netflix, fuboTV
  19. 1981 Savage Harvest: acted · directed by Robert L. Collins
  20. 1981 Silence of the North: acted · directed by Allan King
  21. 1982 A Dangerous Summer: acted · directed by Quentin Masters
  22. 1982 Fighting Back: acted · directed by Lewis Teague
  23. 1983 Ryan's Four (TV series): acted
  24. 1983 The Dead Zone: acted · directed by David Cronenberg · critics 89%, audiences 77% · streaming on Paramount+, AMC+, YouTube (free)
  25. 1984 Calendar Girl Murders (TV movie): acted · directed by William A. Graham
  26. 1986 Opposing Force: acted · directed by Eric Karson
  27. 1986 SpaceCamp: acted · directed by Harry Winer · critics 53%, audiences 50%
  28. 1986 The Parent Trap II (TV movie): acted · directed by Ronald F. Maxwell
  29. 1986 Top Gun: acted · directed by Tony Scott · critics 58%, audiences 83% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Pluto TV
  30. 1986 Wisdom: acted · directed by Emilio Estevez and Robert Wise · audiences 49%
  31. 1987 Maid to Order: acted · directed by Amy Holden Jones
  32. 1987 Poker Alice: acted · directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
  33. 1987 The Big Town: acted · directed by Harold Becker · critics 50%, audiences 35% · streaming on Fawesome, Tubi
  34. 1988 Moving Target: acted · directed by Chris Thomson
  35. 1988 Nightmare at Bittercreek: acted · directed by Tim Burstall
  36. 1988 Poltergeist III: acted · directed by Gary Sherman
  37. 1989 Big Man on Campus: acted · directed by Jeremy Kagan
  38. 1989 Red King, White Knight (TV movie): acted · directed by Geoff Murphy
  39. 1989 Steel Magnolias: acted · directed by Herbert Ross · critics 73%, audiences 89% · streaming on Paramount+, Roku Channel, Tubi
  40. 1990 Child in the Night (TV movie): acted · directed by Mike Robe
  41. 1990 She'll Take Romance (TV movie): acted · directed by Piers Haggard
  42. 1990 The China Lake Murders (TV movie): acted · directed by Alan Metzger
  43. 1990 The Rookie: acted · directed by Clint Eastwood · critics 29%, audiences 36%
  44. 1991 Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue: acted · directed by Zalman King
  45. 1992 A River Runs Through It: acted · directed by Robert Redford · critics 80%, audiences 83% · streaming on Fawesome
  46. 1992 Knight Moves: acted · directed by Carl Schenkel
  47. 1992 Picket Fences (TV series): acted
  48. 1992 Poison Ivy: acted · directed by Katt Shea
  49. 1992 Singles: acted · directed by Cameron Crowe · critics 81%, audiences 73% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, YouTube (free)
  50. 1997 Contact: acted · directed by Robert Zemeckis · critics 71%, audiences 79% · streaming on Prime Video
  51. 1997 Divided by Hate (TV movie): directed
  52. 1999 Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (TV movie): acted · directed by Mikael Salomon
  53. 1999 The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (TV movie): acted · directed by William A. Graham
  54. 1999 The Other Sister: acted · directed by Garry Marshall
  55. 2000 High Noon: acted · directed by Rod Hardy
  56. 2001 Texas Rangers: acted · directed by Steve Miner
  57. 2002 Changing Hearts: acted · directed by Martin Guigui
  58. 2002 Path to War (TV movie): acted · directed by John Frankenheimer · critics 100%, audiences 74% · streaming on HBO Max
  59. 2003 Tears of the Sun: acted · directed by Antoine Fuqua · critics 34%, audiences 69% · streaming on Netflix, fuboTV, Philo
  60. 2003 The West Wing (TV series): acted · directed by Alex Graves and Christopher Misiano · critics 81%, audiences 95% · streaming on Netflix, HBO Max
  61. 2005 Category 7: The End of the World (TV movie): acted · directed by Dick Lowry
  62. 2006 Bonneville: acted · directed by Christopher N. Rowley
  63. 2006 Brothers & Sisters (TV series): acted · directed by Ken Olin · critics 79%, audiences 84% · streaming on Hulu
  64. 2006 Mammoth (TV movie): acted · directed by Tim Cox
  65. 2006 Stephen King's Desperation (TV movie): acted · directed by Mick Garris
  66. 2008 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: acted · directed by Paolo Barzman
  67. 2009 For Sale by Owner: acted · directed by Robert J. Wilson
  68. 2009 The Good Wife (TV series): acted · critics 93%, audiences 91% · streaming on Paramount+, Roku Channel
  69. 2009 Whiteout: acted · directed by Dominic Sena
  70. 2012 Ted: acted · directed by Seth MacFarlane · critics 68%, audiences 73%
  71. 2014 Field of Lost Shoes: acted · directed by Sean McNamara
  72. 2016 A Hologram for the King: acted · directed by Tom Tykwer
  73. 2017 Lucky: acted · directed by John Carroll Lynch
  74. 2021 East of the Mountains: acted · directed by SJ Chiro
  75. 2025 Broke: acted · directed by Carlyle Eubank