Tom Skerritt

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born: 25/Aug/1933 (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Thomas Roy Skerritt is an Emmy Award-Winning American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes.

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), "Harold and Maude" (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.

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", "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".

Recently, he has played the role of Ezekiel on ABC "Family's Fallen" miniseries.

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