Tom Skerritt

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Tom Skerritt (born on 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), 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 (film)", a movie based on a Stephen King novel. He also appeared as Evan Drake in the television sitcom Cheers as well as on Law and Order SVU 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.

A 1951 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."

[edit] External links

• Tom Skerritt at the Internet Movie Database