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Tom Skerritt

Highest Rated:: 96% 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% - 96%

Number of Movies: 87

Box Office Since 2001: $57.1M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2011	57%	Redemption Road	Actor	$25.8k
2010	5%	Multiple Sarcasms	Actor	--
2009	7%	Whiteout	Dr. John Fury	$10.2M
2009		For Sale by Owner	Actor	--
2009	86%	The Velveteen Rabbit	The Horse	--
2008		The Trojan Horse	President Stanfield	--
2008	0%	Beer for My Horses	Sheriff Landry	$0.6M
2007		Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Gabe Utterson	--
2006		Stephen King's Desperation	Actor	--
2006		Origins of the Mafia	Actor	--
2006		Killer Wave	Actor	--
2006	38%	Bonneville	Emmett L. Johnson	$0.3M
2006		Mammoth	Simon	--
2006		Fallen	Actor	--
2005		Vinegar Hill	Actor	--
2005		Category 7: The End of the World	Col. Mike Davis	--
2004		Homeland Security	Admiral McKee	--
2003	42%	Swing	Actor	--
2003	34%	Tears of the Sun	Capt. Bill Rhodes	$43.4M
2002		Changing Hearts	Johnny Pinkley	--
2002		Path to War	William Westmoreland	--
2002		Colored Eggs	Actor	--
2001	94%	The Alien Saga	Actor	$2.0M
2001		Greenmail	Actor	--
2000	2%	Texas Rangers	Richard Dukes	$0.5M
2000		Trial by Media (An American Daughter)	Walter	--
2000	60%	High Noon	Will Kane	--
1999	29%	The Other Sister	Radley	--
1999		The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer	Actor	--
1999		Aftershock: Earthquake in New York	Actor	--
1999		Zigzag	Actor	--
1998	86%	Smoke Signals	Police Chief	--
1998		Two for Texas	Actor	--
1997		Divided By Hate	Actor Director	--
1997		What the Deaf Man Heard	Actor	--
1997	63%	Contact	David Drumlin	--
1992		Getting Up and Going Home	Actor	--
1992		In Sickness and in Health	Jarrett Mattison	--
1992		Wild Orchid 2: Two Shades of Blue	Ham	--
1992	83%	A River Runs Through It	Reverend MacLean	--
1992	80%	Singles	Mayor Weber	--
1992	20%	Knight Moves	Frank Sedman	--
1992	37%	Poison Ivy	Darryl Cooper	--
1991		Hearts on Fire	Actor	--
1990	50%	The Rookie	Eugene Ackerman	--
1990		Child in the Night (Testimone oculare)	Bass	--
1990		The China Lake Murders	Actor	--
1989		Big Man on Campus	Dr. Webster	--
1989	68%	Steel Magnolias	Drum Eatenton	--
1989		Red King, White Knight	Stoner	--
1988		Moving Target	Joseph Kelog	--
1988		Nightmare at Bitter Creek	Actor	--
1988	14%	Poltergeist III	Bruce Gardner	--
1988		The Heist	Actor	--
1987	67%	The Big Town	Phil Carpenter	--
1987		Poker Alice	Jeremy Collins	--
1987	36%	Maid to Order	Charles Montgomery	--
1987		Nightmare at Bittercreek	Actor	--
1986	49%	Top Gun	Cmdr. Mike Metcalf	--
1986		Wisdom	Lloyd Wisdom	--
1986		Opposing Force	Maj. Logan	--
1986		Parent Trap II	Bill Grand	--
1986		Miles to Go	Actor	--
1986	40%	SpaceCamp (Space Camp)	Zach	--
1984		Calendar Girl Murders	Dan Stoner	--
1983	89%	The Dead Zone	Sheriff Bannerman	--
1982		Fighting Back (Death Vengeance)	John D'Angelo	--
1981		Dangerous Summer	Actor	--
1981		Silence of the North	Walter Reamer	--
1979	96%	Alien	Dallas	--
1978	38%	Up in Smoke	Strawberry	--
1978	50%	Ice Castles	Marcus Winston	--
1978		Maneaters Are Loose!	Actor	--
1977	56%	The Turning Point	Wayne	--
1975	20%	The Devil's Rain	Tom Preston	--
1975		The Last Day	Bill Powers	--
1974		Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Actor	--
1974	88%	Thieves Like Us	Dee Mobley	--
1974	71%	Big Bad Mama	Fred Diller	--
1972		Fuzz	Detective Bert Kling	--
1971		The Birdmen	Actor	--
1971		Wild Rovers	John Buckman	--
1970	89%	MAS*H (MASH)	Duke	--
1967		Knife in the Darkness	Actor	--
1965		Those Calloways	Whit Turner	--
1963		One Man's Way	Leonard Peale Grown	--
1962		War Hunt	Cpl. Showalter	--

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Quotes from Tom Skerritt's Characters

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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 (2 months ago)

1. Reverend MacLean: For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
From A River Runs Through It. Submitted by Mackenzie M (6 months ago)