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Full Tom Skerritt Biography
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 (half Picket Fences).
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 Captain A.J. Dallas of the commercial towing vessel 'Nostromo' in Alien (1979), as an astronaut in Contact (1997), and in Top Gun (1986), where he played opposite Tom Cruise as Cmdr. Mike "Viper" Metcalf.
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. He appears as the guide on the showcase website for Microsoft's new operating system called Windows Vista.
Skerritt was born in Detroit, Michigan to 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 has 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 four grown children, consisting of three sons and a daughter. |
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