Tom Skerritt
Birthday: 1933-08-25
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography: Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. He is known for his film roles in M*A*S*H, Alien, The Dead Zone, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, Up in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences. Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences.
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A River Runs Through It
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending muc...
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M*A*S*H
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...
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Contact
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the ...
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Desperation
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell ...
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Top Gun
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being acc...
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Poltergeist III
Carol Anne has been sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle in an effort to hide her from the clutches ...
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Maid to Order
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exas...
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Steel Magnolias
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a ...
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Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and ...
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Singles
A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on ...
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The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's ho...
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Whiteout
The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment be...
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Path to War
A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at...
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Knight Moves
A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood dra...
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Savage Harvest
A family in Africa is besieged by a group of lions, driven to desperation by the drought....
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The Rookie
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the ...
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One Man's Way
Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation....
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The Moonshine War
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sig...
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Maneaters Are Loose!
Terror stalks a small California community when a broke and depressed animal owner and trainer is fo...
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Thieves Like Us
Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of t...
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For Sale by Owner
One man's journey to find his past leads him to discover the secret to one of America's most hauntin...
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War Hunt
Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the ho...
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Poison Ivy
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of ...
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Tears of the Sun
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose...
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Texas Rangers
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a compan...
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Opposing Force
A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission. The group...
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SpaceCamp
Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teena...
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Wisdom
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-c...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred...
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Mammoth
On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater Louisiana, a meteor streaks across the sk...
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The Velveteen Rabbit
A lonely boy wins over his distant father and strict grandmother with help from a brave velveteen ra...
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Wild Rovers
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods ...
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Those Calloways
Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams o...
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The Turning Point
As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and m...
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Plot of Fear
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts o...
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Big Bad Mama
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across ...
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The Devil's Rain
A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and ens...
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Bonneville
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden enlists her two best friends and sets off in a...
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The Other Sister
A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when sh...
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Divided by Hate
When Carol Gibbs becomes involved with religious- and political-cult leader Steve Riordan's anti-gov...
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Fallen
For high schooler Aaron Corbett, turning 18 means becoming not just a man but a nephilim, too -- hal...
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The Parent Trap II
Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New Yo...
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Ice Castles
Alexis is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a worl...
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Changing Hearts
Based on Daniel Wright's award-winning play "Colored Eggs", is a drama/comedy about life, loss and l...
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The Beast Within: Making Alien
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew tra...
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High Noon
High Noon tells the story of a lawman named Will Kane (Skerritt) who has just married a young bride,...
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Ted
John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must deci...
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The Heist
Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smu...
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Redemption Road
In Tennessee, Bailey, a debt-straddled blues guitarist, is escorted across the state by a man named ...
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A Bell for Adano
A U.S. army officer, the military governor of an Italian town during World War II, tries to reintrod...
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The Further Adventures of Gallegher
The young copyboy helps the town’s first female newspaper reporter, who is writing a series on confi...
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Soda Springs
The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy o...
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Vinegar Hill
Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearin...
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Swing
Anthony is caught between dreams of being a musician and pleasing his father and fiance. Encouraged ...
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Fighting Back
An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks....
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Homeland Security
Admiral McKee is retired, when following the events of 9/11 he receives a call from the White House ...
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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and the...
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Two for Texas
Kris Kristofferson and Scott Bairstow are hunted fugitives from a Louisiana prison camp who come Two...
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A Dangerous Summer
Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the...
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Calendar Girl Murders
During the launch party of a nude calendar, one of the models is thrown to her death by a black glov...
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An American Daughter
A Senator's daughter seems to have a lock on a nomination as the US Surgeon General, until a backgro...
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Child in the Night
Traumatized after seeing his father brutally murdered by a hook wielding assailant, young Luke is ta...
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The China Lake Murders
A small town sheriff has his suspicions in a murder case which involves a rogue cop who goes on a mu...
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Poker Alice
She's a New Orleans gambler with a poker face no man can resist. And when she unwittingly wins a "ho...
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Over California in High Definition
You have never seen the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Pacific Coastline like this before! Take to ...
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At Middleton
George is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith is a free spirit with an overachie...
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Greenmail
After huge explosions rip through a chemical processing plant, Alexander Scott, the leader of the ra...
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Over Hawaii
Go to the Big Island and hover above erupting craters at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, watch flowi...
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Nightmare at Bittercreek
In a deadly battle for survival, four women are hunted by a ruthless group of killers they accidenta...
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Moving Target
A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home...
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Big Man on Campus
In this version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", a hunchback is found living in the bell tower of U...
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Redwood Highway
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles d...
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Run, Run, Joe!
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must ...
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A Hologram for the King
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to th...
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Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
In 1909, looking to shed its rough frontier past, the young city of Seattle decided to host a World’...
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Red King, White Knight
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an age...
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Broke
A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden bliz...
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Wings: Sky Force Heroes
When Ace, a cocky young firefighter, defies his orders and recklessly puts his team in jeopardy, he ...
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La madama
In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word wer...
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Up in Smoke
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and...
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The Big Town
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who le...
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Silence of the North
Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman...
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Beer for My Horses
"Beer for My Horses" tells the story of two best friends that work together as deputies in a small t...
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The Last Day
The Dalton gang is riding again, forcing a retired gunman to use his weapons once more....
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She'll Take Romance
A TV reporter leads a search for the most romantic man in Seattle and finds one for herself....
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Getting Up and Going Home
A middle-aged lawyer struggles to face his inner demons as he finds himself embroiled in affairs wit...
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Your Love Never Fails
Your Love Never Fails is the story of Laura (Elisa Donovan), a working mother who just wants to spen...
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A Look Through His Lens
Oscar-winning cinematographer Philippe Rousselot offers a master class in image making, with insight...
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Harold and Maude
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...
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Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chao...
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Soaring Over America
Created from public television's popular Over series, this is a tour unlike any other! Fly above lan...
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What the Deaf Man Heard
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and...
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy a...
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Alien
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a di...
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Field of Lost Shoes
A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the ho...
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Miles to Go…
After discovering that her cancer has returned, Moira Browning launches a quiet campaign to find a p...
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The Rocky Mountain Fly Highway
In the heart of the Northern Rockies, one 500-mile stretch of highway connects the West's most renow...
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A Touch of Scandal
Katherine Gilvey is a comely councilwoman, whose campaign for Attorney General is being managed by h...
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The Alien Saga
In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weave...
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Journey Back to Christmas
WWII has ended and Hanna is still grieving over her husband's disappearance. When the Christmas Come...
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The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
A documentary profile of Pasadena society girl turned adventurer and aviator, Florence Lowe "Pancho"...
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Category 7: The End of the World
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming...
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Lucky
Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map ...
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In Sickness and in Health
A man hires a nurse to care for his wife, who suffers from Multiple Scleroses, but a relationship so...
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Day of Days
A reclusive, God-fearing 91-year-old man and a young Cuban refugee home-aid worker struggle to come ...
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Over America
Get rare views of some of America's most beloved landmarks, from the Statue of Liberty to the iconic...
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The Phantom 52
Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost th...
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Memory: The Origins of Alien
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, unde...
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Smoke Signals
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling ...
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Into the Wild Blue
Originally aired on the History Channel. Get ready for high speed thrills as we soar through the ski...
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East of the Mountains
When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog b...
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The Birdmen
During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the...
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Catch the Bullet
U.S. marshal Britt MacMasters returns from a mission to find his father wounded and his son kidnappe...
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A Question About Sex
Teenage girl who advocates sex education at her school finds herself butting heads with her mother w...
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Alien: Terror in Space
A retrospective look at the global impact of Alien, the science fiction and horror masterpiece direc...
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Altman on His Own Terms
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. T...
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