Everything about Tom Skerritt totally explained
Thomas Roy Skerritt (born
August 25,
1933) is an
Emmy Award-winning
American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962.
Biography
Career
Skerritt made his
television debut in 1962 in
Combat! and his
film debut in
War Hunt, produced by
Terry Sanders and released the same year. Skerritt's notable film appearances include
M*A*S*H (1970; his huge role was pared down enormously by director
Robert Altman),
Harold and Maude (credited as "M. Borman") (1971),
Cheech & Chong's
Next Movie (1978), as Captain A.J. Dallas of the commercial towing vessel 'Nostromo' in
Alien (1979), as an astronaut in
Contact (1997) and
SpaceCamp (1986), and in
Top Gun (1986), where he played opposite
Tom Cruise as
Cmdr. Mike "Viper" Metcalf.
He was the Rev. MacLean in
A River Runs Through It (1992). He was in the movie
Poison Ivy (1992) with
Drew Barrymore and also played a sheriff in
The Dead Zone, a movie based on a
Stephen King novel. He appeared as
Evan Drake in the television sitcom
Cheers,, and starred in the television series
Picket Fences (1992–1996). More recently, Skerritt has starred in
Homeland Security and
The Grid which is a Fox/BBC co-production. Both of these latter projects dealt with
counter-terrorism.
He also portrays the deceased William Walker on
Brothers & Sisters, having appeared in the pilot as well as in several flashbacks since. This is his second time playing the husband of
Sally Field, the first being his role in the film
Steel Magnolias. Recently, he's played the role of Ezekiel on
ABC Family's
Fallen miniseries. He appears as the guide on the showcase website for
Microsoft's new
operating system called
Windows Vista. He recently appeared on Adult Swim's
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, where the duo sang a jingle for him. He expressed disappointment as he said "You didn't do a good job".
Personal life
Skerritt was born in
Detroit,
Michigan, the son of Helen, a homemaker, and Roy Skerritt, who worked in business. A 1951 graduate of Detroit's
Mackenzie High School, Skerritt attended
Wayne State University and the
University of California at Los Angeles. Since 1988, he's divided his domestic life between his
Lake Washington home in suburban
Seattle, Washington and a home on
Lopez Island in the
San Juan Islands. Skerritt has grown children (three sons and one daughter).
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