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Tom Skerritt
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Tom Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor, born in Detroit, Michigan. He made his television debut in 1962 in Combat!. He made his film debut in War Hunt (1962), produced by Terry Sanders.
Skerritt's most 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),Alien (1979), Contact (1997) and 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 also appeared as
Evan Drake in the television sitcom
Cheers as well as on
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and
The West Wing (2003), 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.
He appears as the guide on the showcase website for Microsoft's new Operating System 'Windows Vista.'
A 1953 graduate of Detroit's David Mackenzie High School, Skerritt has lived in Seattle, Washington since 1988.
Skerritt has also recently been mentioned in
Liam Kyle Sullivan's online skit titled, "Shoes."
