Tom Skerritt

Highest Rated:
97% Alien (1979)
Lowest Rated:
0% Beer for My Horses (2008)
Birthday:
Aug 25, 1933
Birthplace:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Bio:
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…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 97%
Number of Movies: 92
Box Office Since 2001: $60.1M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 57% Redemption Road
  • Santa
$25.8k
2011 Your Love Never Fails
  • Actor
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2010 5% Multiple Sarcasms
  • Actor
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2009 The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
  • Actor
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2009 For Sale by Owner
  • Actor
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2009 86% The Velveteen Rabbit
  • The Horse
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2009 7% Whiteout
  • Dr. John Fury
$10.2M
2008 40% Bonneville
  • Emmett L. Johnson
$0.3M
2008 The Trojan Horse
  • President Stanfield
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2008 0% Beer for My Horses
  • Sheriff Landry
$0.6M
2007 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Gabe Utterson
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2006 Mammoth
  • Simon
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2006 Fallen
  • Actor
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2006 Stephen King's Desperation
  • Actor
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2006 Killer Wave
  • Actor
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2005 Category 7: The End of the World
  • Col. Mike Davis
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2005 Vinegar Hill
  • Actor
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2004 Homeland Security
  • Admiral McKee
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2004 Grid
  • Actor
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2003 33% Tears of the Sun
  • Capt. Bill Rhodes
$43.4M
2003 Alien: The Director's Cut
  • Actor
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2003 42% Swing
  • Actor
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2002 Path to War
  • William Westmoreland
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2002 Colored Eggs
  • Actor
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2002 Changing Hearts
  • Johnny Pinkley
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2001 94% The Alien Saga
  • Actor
$2.0M
2001 Greenmail
  • Actor
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2000 2% Texas Rangers
  • Richard Dukes
$0.5M
2000 Trial by Media (An American Daughter)
  • Walter
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2000 60% High Noon
  • Will Kane
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1999 The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
  • Actor
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1999 Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
  • Actor
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1999 29% The Other Sister
  • Radley
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1998 Two for Texas
  • Actor
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1998 86% Smoke Signals
  • Police Chief
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1997 63% Contact
  • David Drumlin
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1997 Zigzag
  • Actor
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1997 Divided By Hate
  • Director
  • Actor
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1997 What the Deaf Man Heard
  • Actor
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1994 Shadow Casting: The Making of "A River Runs Through It"
  • Actor
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1992 In Sickness and in Health
  • Jarrett Mattison
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1992 Wild Orchid 2: Two Shades of Blue
  • Ham
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1992 83% A River Runs Through It
  • Reverend MacLean
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1992 79% Singles
  • Mayor Weber
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1992 20% Knight Moves
  • Frank Sedman
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1992 37% Poison Ivy
  • Darryl Cooper
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1992 Getting Up and Going Home
  • Actor
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1991 Hearts on Fire
  • Actor
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1990 Child in the Night (Testimone oculare)
  • Bass
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1990 The China Lake Murders
  • Actor
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1990 50% The Rookie
  • Eugene Ackerman
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1989 Big Man on Campus
  • Dr. Webster
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1989 65% Steel Magnolias
  • Drum Eatenton
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1989 Red King, White Knight
  • Stoner
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1988 Nightmare at Bitter Creek
  • Actor
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1988 13% Poltergeist III
  • Bruce Gardner
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1988 The Heist
  • Actor
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1988 Moving Target
  • Joseph Kelog
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1987 Poker Alice
  • Jeremy Collins
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1987 36% Maid to Order
  • Charles Montgomery
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1987 Nightmare at Bittercreek
  • Actor
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1987 67% The Big Town
  • Phil Carpenter
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1986 Wisdom
  • Lloyd Wisdom
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1986 Opposing Force
  • Maj. Logan
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1986 Parent Trap II
  • Bill Grand
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1986 40% SpaceCamp (Space Camp)
  • Zach
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1986 55% Top Gun
  • Cmdr. Mike Metcalf
$3.0M
1984 Calendar Girl Murders
  • Dan Stoner
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1984 Miles to Go
  • Stuart
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1983 89% The Dead Zone
  • Sheriff Bannerman
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1982 Dangerous Summer
  • Howard Anderson
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1982 Fighting Back (Death Vengeance)
  • John D'Angelo
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1981 Silence of the North
  • Walter Reamer
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1979 97% Alien
  • Dallas
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1978 Maneaters Are Loose!
  • Actor
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1978 38% Up in Smoke
  • Strawberry
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1978 44% Ice Castles
  • Marcus Winston
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1977 56% The Turning Point
  • Wayne
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1976 Origins of the Mafia
  • Actor
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1975 The Last Day
  • Bill Powers
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1975 20% The Devil's Rain
  • Tom Preston
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1974 88% Thieves Like Us
  • Dee Mobley
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1974 71% Big Bad Mama
  • Fred Diller
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1974 Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  • Actor
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1972 Fuzz
  • Detective Bert Kling
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1971 Wild Rovers
  • John Buckman
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1971 The Birdmen
  • Actor
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1970 90% M*A*S*H (MASH)
  • Duke
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1967 Knife in the Darkness
  • Actor
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1965 Those Calloways
  • Whit Turner
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1963 One Man's Way
  • Leonard Peale Grown
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1962 War Hunt
  • Cpl. Showalter
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Quotes from Tom Skerritt's Characters

    1. Dallas: [from editited footage] Kill... me! Ripely.
    From Alien. Submitted by Ashlee A (12 months ago)
    1. Dallas: [looking at alien skeleton] Alien life form. Looks like it's been dead a long time. Fossilized. Looks like it's growing out of the chair. [climbs up for a closer look]
    2. Dallas: Bones are bent outward, like he exploded from inside.
    From Alien. Submitted by Joel L (18 months ago)
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