Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt at the 47th Emmy Awards
Birth name	Thomas Alderton Skerritt
Born	August 25, 1933 (1933-08-25) (age 73) Detroit, Michigan, USA
Other name(s)	Skerrit
Notable roles	Captain A.J. Dallas in Alien

Thomas Alderton 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 (half Picket Fences). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  Ranked 11th  - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 491 miles (790 km)  - % water 41. ... // The following is a list of character from the Alien series of films. ... Alien; for other films/spin-offs see Alien (film series) Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Alien (film) Alien, a 1979 science fiction / horror film directed by Ridley Scott, has become a cultural phenomenon. ... is the 237th day of the year (238th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... An Emmy Award. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Picket Fences is a 60-minute drama which initially ran from September 18, 1992 to June 26, 1996 on the CBS television network in the United States. ...

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 Up in Smoke (1978), as an astronaut in Alien (1979) and Contact (1997), and in Top Gun (1986), where he played opposite Tom Cruise as Cmdr. Mike "Viper" Metcalf. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... War Hunt is a 1962 film starring John Saxon, Charles Aidman, and Robert Redford. ... Terry Sanders is a two-time Academy Award winner, having produced and/or directed more than 70 dramatic features, televisions specials, documentaries and portrait films. ... MASH is a 1970 satirical American dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and based on the novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. ... Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. ... Harold and Maude is a movie directed by Hal Ashby in 1971. ... Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, Cheech and Chong, were a comedy duo who found a wide audience in the 1960s and 1970s for their stand_up routines, which were based upon the 1960s hippie, free love and (especially) drug culture movements. ... Up in Smoke, directed by Lou Adler, is Cheech and Chongs first feature-length film, released in 1978 by Paramount. ... Alien; for other films/spin-offs see Alien (film series) Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Alien (film) Alien, a 1979 science fiction / horror film directed by Ridley Scott, has become a cultural phenomenon. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long. ... Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. ... Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... Commander is a military rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. ...

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, had a recurring role Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, 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 two 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. A River Runs Through It is a 1992 American film directed by Robert Redford and starring Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, and Emily Lloyd. ... Poison Ivy is a 1992 erotic thriller and drama film directed by Katt Shea. ... Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. ... The Dead Zone is a 1983 film directed by David Cronenberg. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. ... Evan Drake was a recurring character on the television series Cheers, portrayed by Tom Skerritt. ... Cheers is a popular American situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. Cheers was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. ... Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 DVD Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU) is the first of three spin-offs of Law & Order (the other two being Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury; all series are presented on the NBC... Picket Fences is a 60-minute drama which initially ran from September 18, 1992 to June 26, 1996 on the CBS television network in the United States. ... Homeland Security was a made for TV movie, which was intended as a pilot for a series which never materialized. ... The Grid was a 2004 television miniseries co-produced by the BBC, Fox TV Studios and Carnival Films. ... Counter-terrorism refers to the practices, tactics, and strategies that governments, militaries, and other groups adopt in order to fight terrorism. ... Brothers & Sisters is an hour-long American TV drama series about a large mature family and the events that befall them. ... Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress . ... Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling, is a 1987 off-Broadway play, made into a successful movie in 1989. ...

He appears as the guide on the showcase website for Microsoft's new operating system called Windows Vista. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Windows Vista is a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, Tablet PCs, and media centers. ...

Personal life

Skerritt was born in Detroit, Michigan to Helen, a homemaker, and Roy Skerritt, who worked in business.^[1][2] A 1953 graduate of Detroit's David Mackenzie High School, Skerritt attended Wayne State University and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has lived in Seattle, Washington since 1988 and has three sons and a daughter. Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  Ranked 11th  - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 491 miles (790 km)  - % water 41. ... Wayne State University (Detroit, MI 48202) is located in Detroit, Michigan, in the citys Midtown Cultural Center. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... Nickname: Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Coordinates: Country United States State Washington County King County Incorporated December 2 1869 Government  - Type Mayor-council  - Mayor Greg Nickels (NP) Area  - City  142. ...

Trivia

Tom Skerritt is what Kelly's mom is thinking about in the video Shoes. There is a photo of him on the wall behind Kelly when she stands up. Liam Kyle Sullivan (born July 17, 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American comedian and actor. ...

References

External links

• Tom Skerritt at the Internet Movie Database