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Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt
Born: Aug 25, 1933 in Detroit, Michigan
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '60s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Top Gun, Silence of the North, Alien
First Major Screen Credit: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Run for Doom (1963)
37 Videos for Tom Skerritt
The Velveteen Rabbit (2009) Contact (1997) The Heist (1988)
Whiteout (2009) Divided by Hate (1997) Maid to Order (1987)
Beer for My Horses (2008) A River Runs Through It (1992) The Big Town (1987)
Brothers & Sisters: Season 02 (2007) Knight Moves (1992) Opposing Force (1986)
Bonneville (2006) Poison Ivy (1992) Spacecamp (1986)
Stephen King's Desperation (2006) Singles (1992) Top Gun (1986)
Category 7: The End of the World (2005) Wild Orchid 2: Two Shades of Blue (1992) The Hitchhiker [TV Series] (1983)
Swing (2003) The China Lake Murders (1990) Alien (1979)
Tears of the Sun (2003) The Rookie (1990) Ice Castles (1979)
Path to War (2002) Red King, White Knight (1989) Up in Smoke (1978)
Greenmail (2001) Steel Magnolias (1989) The Wild Rovers (1971)
High Noon (2000) Poltergeist 3 (1988) M*A*S*H (1970)
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
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Biography:

Tom Skerritt is probably the best-known actor whose name is never remembered. A rugged outdoors type, Skerritt briefly attended Wayne State University and UCLA before making his film bow in War Hunt (1962). His subsequent film and TV roles were sizeable, but so adept was Skerritt at immersing himself in his character that he seemed to have no tangible, recurrent personality of his own.

Billed second as Duke in the original M*A*S*H* (1970), Skerritt did his usual finely-honed job, but audiences of the time preferred the demonstrative, mannered acting technique of Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall; significantly, Skerritt's character was not carried over into the even more unsubtle M*A*S*H TV series.

Finally, in 1980, Skerritt began to attain a following with his authoritative performance in Alien. Since that time, there's been no stopping him. He posed in a popular series of Guess? Jeans ads, appeared as a 1987-88 regular on Cheers, starred in 1992's A River Runs Through It (directed by his long-ago War Hunt costar Robert Redford), and won a 1994 Emmy for his work on the TV series Picket Fences. Skerritt would continue to work at a remarkable pace, usually appearing in several projects a year.

From 1999's family drama The Other Sister to 2003's war thriller Tears of the Sun, the actor could be spotted by fans of seemingly every area of film throughout the 90's and 2000's. In 2006, he took a recurring role in the hit primetime drama Brothers and Sisters, and in 2008 he signed on for the redneck comedy Beer for my Horses. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.