Tom SkerrittFilmography

The Velveteen Rabbit

Actors: Matthew Harbour, Tom Skerritt, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Seymour, Una Kay

Synopsis: Live-action filmmaking mixes with imaginative animation in director Michael Landon Jr.'s feature adaptation of author Margery Williams' beloved children's book. An energetic child with a vivid imagination, Toby Morgan (Matthew Harbour) lives with his father (Kevin Jubinville), a successful Read More

Beer for My Horses

Actors: Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Claire Forlani, Ted Nugent, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: Country music star Toby Keith writes and stars in this road movie comedy inspired by his chart-topping hit of the same name. Beer for My Horses opens to find small-town deputies and longtime buddies Rack (Keith) and Lonnie (Rodney Carrington) quietly enforcing the law in a small Southern town. Read More

Bonneville

Actors: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Christine Baranski, Victor Rasuk

Synopsis: A woman looking to fulfill her late husband's final wish sets out on a transformative cross-country road trip in director Christopher N. Rowley's warmhearted tale of friendship, self-discovery, and the memories that make life worth living even after the ones we love have gone. Arvilla (Jessica Lange Read More

Rivers of a Lost Coast

Actors: Tom Skerritt

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Actors: Dougray Scott, Krista Bridges, Tom Skerritt, Danette MacKay, Cas Anvar, Ellen David

Synopsis: Dougray Scott essays the role of author Robert Louis Stevenson's maniacal medico in director Paolo Barzman's retelling of the classic gothic tale. A highly regarded physician who dedicates all of this spare time to unlocking the secrets of a rare Amazonian flower, Dr. Henry Jekyll (Scott) is about Read More

Multiple Sarcasms

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino

Brothers & Sisters: Season 02

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin, Patricia Wettig

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Actors: Dougray Scott, Krista Bridges, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: A renowned physician researching the powers of a rare Amazonian flower said to separate the self from the soul finds his experiment with the psychotropic plant coinciding with a series of sadistic murders in this updating of the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Upon learning of a rare Read More

Stephen King's Desperation

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Ron Perlman, Annabeth Gish, Charles Durning, Henry Thomas, Shane Haboucha

Synopsis: Masters of Horror creator Mick Garris joins forces with literary horror icon Stephen King for this, the pair's sixth onscreen collaboration. In the wind-swept Nevada town of Desperation, a malevolent sheriff (Ron Perlman) delivers arrestees to a jail cell from which, by all accounts, no one has Read More

Brothers & Sisters: Season 01

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin, Patricia Wettig

Mammoth

Actors: Vincent Ventresca, Summer Glau, Tom Skerritt, Leila Arcieri, Cole Williams

Synopsis: This direct-to-video thriller concerns a meteor that crash lands into a prehistoric museum, resurrecting an eons-old woolly mammoth. The beast then proceeds to go on a virulent rampage, terrorizing everyone in the small town that lies nearby. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

Killer Wave

Actors: Stephen McHattie, Tom Skerritt, Angus MacFadyen, Karine Vanasse

Synopsis: A series of massive tidal waves decimate the entire East Coast, leading a renegade expert on man made ecological disasters and weapons of mass destruction to suspect that a force far more human than Mother Nature is at work in this terrifying mini-series starring Angus Macfayden, Tom Skerritt, and Read More

Category 7: The End of the World

Actors: Gina Gershon, Cameron Daddo, Shannen Doherty, Randy Quaid, James Brolin, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: A series of devastating storms are leveling major cities across the globe, and it's up to discredited scientist Faith Clavell (Shannon Doherty), dedicated storm chaser Tommy Tornado (Randy Quaid), and the FEMA head Judith Carr (Gina Gerson) to journey into the eye of the storm and find out just Read More

Swing

Actors: Innis Casey, Tom Skerritt, Jacqueline Bisset, Dahlia Waingort

Synopsis: A talented young musician attempts to balance his musical ambition with his deep-rooted desire to please both his demanding father (Tom Skerritt) and his career-oriented fiancé (Dahlia Waingort) in this affective drama about important life choices from filmmaker Martin Guigui. There's nothing that Read More

Homeland Security

Actors: Scott Glenn, Tom Skerritt, Grant Show, Marisol Nichols, Kal Penn

Synopsis: The NBC made-for-TV movie Homeland Security endeavors to put a human face on the events leading up to 9/11, and the post-tragedy formation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the verge of retirement, FBI agent Joe Johnson (Scott Glenn) is brought back to help organize the department Read More

Tears of the Sun

Actors: Nick Chinlund, Eamonn Walker, Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Fionnula Flanagan, Johnny Messner

Synopsis: A career soldier is forced to choose between following orders and saving lives in this action thriller. Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) is a veteran Navy SEAL whose commander (Tom Skerritt) has given his team a special assignment. A Central African nation is expected to explode into war at any Read More

Texas Rangers

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott, Usher Raymond, Ashton Kutcher, Robert Patrick

Synopsis: The true story of the formation of the Texas Rangers provides the backdrop for this youth-oriented Western. In 1875, after the Civil War, Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) organizes the Texas Rangers to battle the outlaws terrorizing Texas, notably crime kingpin John King Fisher (Alfred Molina). Read More

Changing Hearts

Actors: Lauren Holly, Faye Dunaway, Ian Somerhalder, Tom Skerritt, Edie McClurg

Synopsis: A shared affliction -- namely, breast cancer -- forges an unlikely friendship between two Southern women, ebullient young Amber Collins (Lauren Holly) and crabby, reclusive oldster Betty Miller (Faye Dunaway). As they join forces to battle and cope with their disease, Amber and Betty also end up Read More

Path to War

Actors: Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Inspired by author Robert A. Caro's massive biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the made-for-cable Path to War retraces the world-shaking events occurring between LBJ's jubilant inaugural in 1965 and his tired, dispirited decision not to seek another presidential term in 1968. At the Read More

Greenmail

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Kelly Rowan, Tom Skerritt, D.B. Sweeney

Synopsis: When a dangerous extremist is apprehended by the authorities, a series of deadly bombings force a beautiful but deadly ATF agent into an uneasy alliance in this explosive action thriller from director Jonathan Heap. In the aftermath of a deadly chemical processing plan explosion, ATF agent Ashley Read More

The Alien Saga

Synopsis: Originally aired on AMC, this documentary focuses on one of the most horrifying series ever to be committed to celluloid -- the Alien film series. With interviews from most of the main players, including Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, and H.R. Giger, the special goes through Read More

The Directors: Robert Zemeckis

Synopsis: The American Film Institute's Directors: Robert Zemeckis profiles the Academy Award-winning director of blockbuster hits and critic's picks. The video chronicles Zemeckis progression from a teenager obsessed with making 8 mm movies to a hungry USC Film School student to a red-hot Hollywood Read More

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Tim Matheson, Tom Skerritt, Frances Fisher, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: The life of one of the most famous American women of the last half of the 20th century receives yet another retelling in this made-for-TV drama. Raised by a harsh, domineering mother (Frances Fisher) and a charming but unfaithful (and alcoholic) father (Fred Ward), Jacqueline Bouvier (Joanne Read More

High Noon

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Reed Diamond, Maria Conchita Alonso, Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most acclaimed Westerns gets a new interpretation in this made-for-TV remake of Fred Zinnemann's 1952 classic. Will Kane (Tom Skerritt), the marshal of the frontier town of Hadleyville, is stepping down to marry his sweetheart Amy (Susanna Thompson) and move on to a less Read More

Trial by Media

Actors: Christine Lahti, Tom Skerritt, Jay Thomas, Mark Feuerstein, Stanley Anderson

Synopsis: Adapted from the stage comedy by Wendy Wasserstein, the made-for-cable An American Daughter was clearly inspired by the "Nannygate" imbroglio surrounding President Bill Clinton's political appointees Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood. Christine Lahti stars as Lyssa Dent Hughes, the daughter of a prominent Read More

The Other Sister

Actors: Juliette Lewis, Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt, Giovanni Ribisi, Poppy Montgomery

Synopsis: Twenty-two year old Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis) is a slightly mentally challenged young woman who has spent several years at a sheltered private boarding school. Now she's coming home to her wealthy parents in northern California who are emotionally ill-equipped to deal with her and are guilt Read More

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Sharon Lawrence, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Nicole Carson, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: A major earthquake brings the City That Never Sleeps to a screeching halt in this made-for-TV suspense drama. New York City Mayor Lincoln (Charles S. Dutton) and Fire Chief Ahearn (Tom Skerritt) are contentious political rivals forced to set aside their differences and work together when a Read More

The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer

Actors: Kevin Anderson, Tom Skerritt, Naomi Watts, Brian Kerwin, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer concerns the notorious Ira Einhorn, a political activist turned murder suspect who eluded Philadelphia police for nearly 20 years. In 1968, Texas-born Holly Maddux (Naomi Watts) left home to attend Bryn Mawr College, and two years later she Read More

Smoke Signals

Actors: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal

Synopsis: This dramatic feature was written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans. Native American writer Sherman Alexie scripted this adaptation of his 1993 short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Director Chris Eyre's previous short Someone Kept Saying Powwow is Read More

Two for Texas

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Scott Bairstow, Tom Skerritt, Peter Coyote, Irene Bedard

Synopsis: Larry Brothers scripted this adaptation of the James Lee Burke novel that begins in a Louisiana penal colony during the 1830s. After middle-aged Allison (Kris Kristofferson) and young Holland (Scott Bairstow) make an escape, they take along Sana, a Choctaw (Irene Bedard, of Disney's animated Pocahontas Read More

Divided by Hate

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Dylan Walsh, Andrea Roth, Jim Beaver, Michael Ruud

Synopsis: In this tense drama, a husband single-handedly faces down a white supremacy group after his wife is convinced to join them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

What The Deaf Man Heard

Actors: Matthew Modine, Claire Bloom, Judith Ivey, James Earl Jones, Jerry O'Connell

Synopsis: Scripter Robert W. Lenski adapted G.D. Gearino's novel What the Deaf-Mute Heard for this Hallmark Hall of Fame comedy. It was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, by director John Kent Harrison. During the '40s, single mother Helen (Bernadette Peters) boards a bus for Barrington, Georgia, with Read More

Contact

Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the Read More

Filmmaking: Shadow Casting - The Making of "A River Runs Through It"

A River Runs Through It

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as Read More

Singles

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Sheila Kelley, Jim True

Synopsis: Set amidst the burgeoning Seattle alternative music scene of the early '90s, Singles follows a group of twentysomethings as they try to find love and try to come to terms with their passage into adulthood. Arranged as an episodic comedy, the film follows a group of friends who live in the same Read More

Poison Ivy

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd, Alan Stock

Synopsis: The always challenging transition from adorable child performer to sexy adult star was achieved flamboyantly by actress Drew Barrymore with this erotic drama that unfolds like a paranoia-drenched Lolita (1962). Sylvie Cooper (Sara Gilbert) is a misanthropic student at a private high school for Read More

Picket Fences: Season 01

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Ray Walston

Getting Up and Going Home

Synopsis: Based on Robert Anderson's novel, the made-for-television Getting Up and Going Home is a drama about a divorced attorney (Tom Skerritt) who copes with a mid-life crisis by having affairs with no less than three women: his ex-wife, a single mother, and a married suburbanite. ~ Stephen Thomas Read More

In Sickness and in Health

Synopsis: When a single mother comes in to help take care of a man's ill wife, he becomes interested in her for more than the care she is rendering. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Knight Moves

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin, Charles Bailey-Gates

Synopsis: This murder mystery from director Carl Schenkel stars Christopher Lambert (Highlander) as Peter Sanderson, an expert chess champion. When a woman Sanderson has recently slept with is among several women brutally murdered at a chess tournament, he becomes a suspect. But when the murderer contacts Read More

The Rookie

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: In return for Warner Bros. greenlighting his pet project White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), Clint Eastwood directed and starred in this more commercial film, an action caper about a mismatched pair of auto theft cops. Eastwood is grizzled veteran detective Nick Pulovski, who's determined to bring Read More

Big Man on Campus

Actors: Allan Katz, Corey Parker, Cindy Williams, Melora Hardin, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: This light comedy is a contemporary--and wacky--version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In this version, a malformed young man hangs out in the bell tower of a California college campus and has to face a number of prejudices when he is brought out into the light. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

I'll Take Romance

Actors: Linda Evans, Tom Skerritt, DeLane Matthews, Larry Poindexter, Kenneth Mars, Heather Tom, Michael McGrady, Alan Blumenfeld

Synopsis: I'll Take Romance has nothing to do with the old Grace Moore musical film of the same name. Rather, this 1990 TV movie is about a publicity contest. Dressed in Joan Crawford Chic, Linda Evans plays a Seattle TV meteorologist, assigned to host a contest to find the most romantic man in Puget Sound. Evans Read More

The China Lake Murders

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Michael Parks, Nancy Everhard, Lauren Tewes, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable chiller, a psychopath provides himself with a veritable smorgasbord of victims by masquerading as a member of the California Highway Patrol and bedeviling the residents of a small desert town during his vacation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Child in the Night

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV mystery a troubled psychologist must somehow reach a traumatized 8-year old boy who witnessed a family murder. The trouble is the boy cannot distinguish between reality and fact. According to him, the killer is Captain Hook from Peter Pan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Steel Magnolias

Actors: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: The title refers to those seemingly frail Southern belles who survive any and all deprivations through whims of iron. Robert Harling's original stage play was set exclusively in a Louisiana beauty parlor where an all-female cast of characters laughed, cried and compared menfolk. The film expands Read More

Honor Bound

Nightmare at Bitter Creek

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, a quartet of female friends hire a boozy wilderness guide and head into the mountains for a little backpacking fun that is spoiled when they become the target of a militant survivalist group's war games. The film is also known as Bitter Creek. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Red King, White Knight

Actors: Helen Mirren, Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Tom Skerritt plays an end-of-tether CIA agent in Red King, White Knight. His superiors persuade Skerritt to take one last assignment: to prevent the assassination of the Russian president. Max Von Sydow plays Skerritt's opposite number at the KGB, who despite orders to kill the American agent Read More

Poltergeist 3

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle

Synopsis: Evil spirits follow a young girl from the suburbs to the city in the second follow-up to the blockbuster horror film Poltergeist. Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) is now 12 years old and living with Patricia and Bruce Gardner (Nancy Allen and Tom Skerritt), her aunt and uncle, in a high-rise Read More

The Heist

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Tom Skerritt, Wendy Hughes, Robert Prosky, Noble Willingham

Synopsis: In this made-for-HBO thriller, Pierce Brosnan stars as an ex-convict who seeks revenge on the racetrack partner (Tom Skerritt) who framed him. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Cheers: The Sam in the Gray Flannel Suit

Synopsis: Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) is shocked and appalled when Sam (Ted Danson) is promoted to an executive post with the corporation that owns Cheers. She then discovers that Sam has only gotten the promotion so he can play on the company's softball team. Sam, however, is blissfully unaware of this fact Read More

Cheers: Let Sleeping Drakes Lie

Synopsis: While repainting the house of corporate bigwig Evan Drake (Tom Skerritt), Norm (George Wendt) allows Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) access to Drake's bedroom. While fantasizing about her dream lover, Rebecca is trapped in the closet -- just as Evan returns unexpectedly. The Cheers gang embark upon a Read More

Bitter Creek

Cheers: Backseat Becky, Up Front

Synopsis: Upon learning that her boss Evan Drake (Tom Skerritt) is about to be transferred to Japan, Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) despairs, reasoning that she will never have the opportunity to express her ardor. Desperate to have one last moment alone with Evan, Rebecca takes Sam's suggestion to adopt a Read More

Cheers: Yacht of Fools

Synopsis: Evan Drake (Tom Skerritt) invites Sam (Ted Danson) to spend the weekend on his yacht. Naturally, Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) assumes that Sam will bring her along, convinced that Evan wants to make passionate love to her on the high seas. Instead, Sam's date is another girl named Julie (Dorothy Parke) Read More

Moving Target

Synopsis: Made for television, Moving Target bears a few faint echoes of the 1986 theatrical feature Out of Bounds. Jason Bateman plays a teenaged musician returning home from summer camp. He is hardly greeted with open arms; as a matter of fact, his family has moved out in his absence. Compounding this Read More

Cheers: Tale of Two Cuties

Synopsis: Annie Tortelli (Mandy Ingber) fills in at the bar for her mother-in-law Carla (Rhea Perlman), who is busy giving birth to twins. Complications ensue when the married Annie falls hard for Sam (Ted Danson). Meanwhile, Rebecca (Kirstie Alley), certain that new Cheers waitress Laurie (Bobbie Eakes) is Read More

The Big Town

Actors: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane Read More

Maid to Order

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Beverly D'Angelo, Michael Ontkean, Valerie Perrine, Dick Shawn

Synopsis: Rich but repulsive teenager Jessie (Ally Sheedy) can't stand the notion that the whole world doesn't jump to the crack of her whip. Her overindulgent father, millionaire Charles Montgomery (Tom Skerritt), wishes he could teach his daughter a lesson, but can't bring himself to deny his little Read More

Poker Alice

Actors: George Hamilton, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: We've been told that Poker Alice, a Boston-bred lady of means who managed a wild-west gambling hall and bordello in the 1870s, was based on a real person. She certainly seems real as portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor in this made-for-TV film (Taylor's first). After winning her house of ill repute in a Read More

Hitchhiker, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Page Fletcher stars as the title character in this 1983-1988 made-for-cable suspense anthology. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Cheers: A Kiss is Still a Kiss

Synopsis: A sudden burst of affection (fueled by a few drinks) at a corporate get-together leaves Rebecca's boss with a false impression. To correct this error, Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) enlists the aid of Sam (Ted Danson), who is only too eager for the chance to melt Rebecca's icy demeanor. Meanwhile, a Read More

Cheers: Season 06

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Fans of Cheers greeted the series' sixth season in a heightened state of anticipation and anxiety: Now that series regular Shelley Long (Diane Chambers) had left the show, would her replacement be on the same lofty, laugh-getting level? And how would Cheers owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) respond to Read More

Wisdom

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, William Allen Young

Synopsis: In this film, an old felony conviction comes back to haunt the young, ambitious John Wisdom (Emilio Estevez) as he applies and is turned down for a number of jobs. Frustrated by his attempts to make a legitimate living, John and his girlfriend, Karen (Demi Moore), set out to commit a series of Read More

Opposing Force

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Lisa Eichhorn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree, Robert Wightman

Synopsis: US air force lieutenant Lisa Echhorn is determined to prove her mettle by taking a grueling escape-and-evasion course. Along with several other trainees, Echhorn is parachuted to a remote island where she is to be tracked down by the "enemy". Reluctantly teamed with major Tom Skerritt, who has Read More

Spacecamp

Actors: Leaf Phoenix, Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: This is an eerily prescient family adventure starring Kate Capshaw as Andie, a frustrated NASA astronaut who's never actually been into outer space. Her husband, flight controller Zach (Tom Skerritt), is sympathetic, but he can't influence her place in the rotation. Andie is assigned to train a Read More

Top Gun

Actors: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: Devil-may-care navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent to Miramar Naval Air Station for advanced training. Here he vies with Tom Kasansky (Val Kilmer) for the coveted "Top Gun" award. When not so occupied, Mitchell carries on a romance with civilian consultant Charlotte Blackwood (Kelly McGillis Read More

Parent Trap II

Actors: Hayley Mills, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: Those adorable "twins" from Disney's Parent Trap have grown up and are now encountering similar romantic mix-ups in this made-for-cable-TV sequel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Adventures: Past, Present and Future Featurettes

Synopsis: Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are some of the trailers and coming attractions seen in movies like Airport 77, Futureworld, Alien and Doc Savage. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Miles to Go

Actors: Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: Jill Clayburgh stars in Miles to Go as a loving wife and mother. She discovers that she has terminal cancer, and struggles to come to grips with this appalling information. Resigned to her fate, she decides she has to leave "something more than a memory" for her husband (Tom Skerritt) and her Read More

The Calendar Girl Murders

Actors: Sharon Stone

Synopsis: Just guess what this TV movie is about. Yes, that's right, someone is killing the centerfolds of a certain prominent girlie mag. Poor Miss March went out like a lion and now cops are trying to keep disaster from raining down on Miss April. One of the glamour girls in Calendar Girl Murders is none Read More

A Touch of Scandal

Synopsis: In this drama, a lady lawyer's campaign to become state attorney general is jeopardized by a scandal involving a gigolo, extortion and even murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ryan's Four

Synopsis: In this soapy episode from a short-lived television medical drama, four doctors try to juggle their personal and professional endeavors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

The Dead Zone

Actors: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the ability to foretell a person's future simply by touching his or her hand. After seeing several examples, Smith's doctor (Herbert Lom) becomes convinced that Smith can Read More

Flash Fire

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Ian Gilmour, James Mason, Wendy Hughes, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator Read More

Fighting Back

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin, Yaphet Kotto, David Rasche

Synopsis: An Italian deli owner (Tom Skerritt) gets fed up with the petty hoodlums in his south Philadelphia neighborhood who have been terrorizing his friends. He decides to form a neighborhood watch group to fight off the crooks. While his intentions are the very best, the group of vigilantes he forms Read More

Savage Harvest

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Michelle Phillips, Shawn Stevens, Ann-Marie Martin, Derek Partridge

Synopsis: A drought in the savannas of Kenya provides the basis for this dramatic African adventure that centers on a family living on a desiccated plantation. Their lives are further endangered by a pride of starving lions. Just before the people are devoured, they are saved by a courageous guide. ~ Sandra Read More

Silence of the North

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer McKinney, Donna Dobrijevic

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this film follows the trials and tragedies that befall Walter Reamer (Tom Skerritt) and his wife, Olive (Ellen Burstyn), as they struggle to create a home and raise a family in the brutal Canadian frontier of 1919. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Alien

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm

Synopsis: "In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the Read More

Ice Castles

Actors: Lynn-Holly Johnson, Robby Benson, Colleen Dewhurst, Tom Skerritt, Jennifer Warren

Synopsis: In this sports melodrama that boldly illustrates the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, Lynn-Holly Johnson plays Iowa farm girl Alexis Winston, who has a God-given talent for ice skating. With the encouragement and training of the local ice-skating rink operator Beulah Smith (Colleen Dewhurst Read More

Up in Smoke

Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Stacy Keach, Edie Adams, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: Then professional potheads Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong teamed up for Cheech & Chong: Up In Smoke, which features the drug-addled duo on a road trip throughout California; that is to say, a road-trip they hope will culminate in finding some quality weed. Instead, a series of mishaps result in Read More

Maneaters Are Loose!

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Tom Willis, the made-for-TV Maneaters Are Loose! also bears a surface resemblance to the 1973 TV film Maneater. On the verge of bankruptcy, suicidal animal trainer David Birk (Steve Forrest) releases his "pets" -- two ferocious Bengal tigers -- into the woods near the small Read More

The Turning Point

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: One of a cycle of '70s post-Women's Liberation "women's pictures," Herbert Ross's drama uses the ballet world to examine the conflict between family and career. Former dance colleagues Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) and Emma (Anne Bancroft) are reunited when Emma's New York ballet company stops in Read More

La Madama

The Last Day

Synopsis: Bob Dalton (Robert Conrad) leads his notorious gang of outlaws into the town of Coffeyville, Kansas, in an attempt to rob two banks simultaneously. The only thing that stands in their way is former gunman Will Spence (Richard Widmark) and the courage of the townspeople, led by town marshal Charles Read More

The Devil's Rain

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, William Shatner, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: This horror oddity tells the story of a well-networked throng of devil-worshipers populating a small Arizona town who possess a strange crystal icon which houses the captive souls of their sacrificial victims. The coven, led by the thick-browed Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine), are also Read More

Arrivano Joe e Margherito

Big Bad Mama

Actors: Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee

Synopsis: Angie Dickinson essays the title role in Big Bad Mama. This Depression-era crime caper casts the future star of Police Woman as sexy Ma Barker type Wilma McClatchie, who forces her nubile daughters (Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee) into participating in a robbery/kidnapping/murder spree. Wilma seems to Read More

Thieves Like Us

Actors: Josephine Bennett, Walter Cooper, Lloyd Jones, Howard Warner, Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: Released in the same 12-month span as Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973) and Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express (1974), Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us (1974) also tells a story of doomed outlaws in love. Depression-era criminals T-Dub (Bert Remsen), Chicamaw (John Schuck), and Bowie (Keith Carradine Read More

Bonanza: The Hunter

Actors: Michael Landon, Tom Skerritt, Phillip Avenetti, Peter O'Crotty, Grizzly Green

Synopsis: After fourteen seasons and 430 episodes, the saga of Bonanza came to an end on January 16, 1973 with a powerful episode titled "The Hunter." Written and directed by series star Michael Landon, the episode is essentially a two-man show for Landon (as Joe Cartwright) and guest star Tom Skerritt Read More

The F.B.I.: The Deadly Species

Synopsis: Penny Fuller guest stars as Jean Scott, an accomplished thief and con artist. Freshly escaped from prison, Jean charms several gullible males into acting as accomplices in a nationwide robbery spree. She needs the money to kidnap her son from her ex-husband and then leave the country with the boy Read More

Fuzz

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner, Raquel Welch

Synopsis: Fuzz treads the line between raucous comedy and gut-churning melodrama. Based on an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), the film stars Burt Reynolds and Jack Weston as, respectively, detectives Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer. Their current assignment is to bring in Deaf Man (Yul Brynner Read More

The Wild Rovers

Actors: William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Lynn Carlin, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: If you want to know what The Wild Bunch would have looked like with Blake Edwards rather than Sam Peckinpah in the director's chair, we submit for your approval Wild Rovers. William Holden and Ryan O'Neal play a couple of shiftless ranch hands who impulsively decide to rob a bank. They manage to Read More

The F.B.I.: The Unknown Victim

Synopsis: In a variation of Evan Hunter's famous novel King's Ransom (previously filmed by no less than Akira Kurosawa), outlaws Thorn and Bryan Hazard (Tom Skerritt, Fabian Forte) kidnap a girl whom they believe to be wealthy young Laura Singer (Susannah Darrow). Instead, they have abducted Karen Oliver Read More

Escape of the Birdmen

Actors: Doug McClure

Synopsis: Some prisoners pin their hopes for freedom on a homemade aircraft in this made-for-television thriller. Based on a true World War Two story, Doug McClure stars as Harry Cook, an Allied soldier who tries to escape a Nazi prison camp with a scientist in tow, using a glider built by their fellow Read More

M*A*S*H

Actors: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff

Synopsis: Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits Read More

The F.B.I.: The Legend of John Rim

Synopsis: This prescient episode costars Tom Skerritt, soon to appear as "Duke Forest" in the movie version of M*A*S*H, with Wayne Rogers, the future "Trapper John" in the M*A*S*H TV series. Skerritt is cast as John Rim, a fugitive from justice who is hiding in a Gulf Coast community where he is regarded as Read More

The F.B.I.: The Assassin

Synopsis: Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) learns that Bishop John Atwood (Dean Jagger), a peace envoy to the US, has been targetted for assassination. Unfortunately, the trigger man, known only to the FBI as "Anton Christopher", has never been photographed or fingerprinted, making it virtually impossible to Read More

The Fugitive: Joshua's Kingdom

Synopsis: Newly arrived in Utah under the alias "Jim Corman", Kimble (David Janssen) meets unwed mother Ruth Simmons (Kim Darby), whose baby is seriously ill. In his efforts to treat the infant, Kimble meets strong opposition in the form of Ruth's father Joshua (Harry Townes), a religious zealot who objects Read More

Combat!: The Gauntlet

Synopsis: Captured by the Germans (again!), Saunders (Vic Morrow) manages to escape from a POW train in the company of cowardly American soldier Decker (Tom Skerritt). Seriously wounded in the escape, Saunders knows that he cannot rely upon his "companion" for aid--and worse, the Germans have sent a vicious Read More

Combat!: Nothing to Lose

Synopsis: Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason) is fed up with the insubordination of streetwise punk Private Vinnick (Sal Mineo), and with Vinnick's constant ragging of fellow GI Private Burke (Tom Skerritt). Accused by Vinnick of being a coward, the resentful Burke is determined to prove his courage under fire, thus Read More

Those Calloways

Actors: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon de Wilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn

Synopsis: Originally trade-previewed as Those Crazy Calloways, Disney's Those Calloways is a lengthy, anecdotal film about a highly individualistic New England family. Patriarch Cam Calloway (Brian Keith) is regarded as a crank by the local villagers because of his dream to build a bird sanctuary that will Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Enemies

Synopsis: When the submarine Angier is lost at sea, Nelson (Richard Basehart) and Crane (David Hedison) investigate and discover that the captain and first officer -- previously the best of friends -- turned on each other, after a few hours' stay on a mysterious island. They head to the same island and are Read More

Bonanza: Thanks for Everything, Friend

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Adam Cartwright is rescued from drowning by Tom Wilson (Rory Calhoun), a man as lucky at cards as he is at love. Though grateful to Tom, Adam looks askance when Tom moves in on Matilda (Barbara Wilkin), the girlfriend of a man named Jerry (Tom Skerritt). When Tom is accused of killing Matilda's Read More

Combat!: Losers Cry Deal

Synopsis: Acting as squad leader in Saunders' absence, Caje (Pierre Jalbert) is faced with an unexpected problem from within his own ranks. For some reason, Private Thomas (Dee Pollock) lives in mortal terror of Private Jackson (Mike Kellin), a cynical wisecracker from another squad. What is the power that Read More

The Fugitive: Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet

Synopsis: Travelling under the name of "Richard Clark", Kimble (David Janssen) is arrested for hitchhiking by Marshall Joe Bob Simms (Pat Hingle). Though he enjoys a reputation as a prince of a fellow, Simms is actually a scheming sadist who uses prisoners like Kimble as slave labor, forcing them to work on Read More

My Favorite Martian: Miss Jekyll and Hyde

Synopsis: A pre-That Girl Marlo Thomas guest stars as Paula, the highly intelligent--and highly insecure--niece of landlady Mrs. Brown (Pamela Britton). To prevent Paula from figuring out his true identity, Martin (Ray Walston) tries to distract her by asking Tim (Bill Bixby) to take the girl out. Read More

One Man's Way

Actors: Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom, Virginia Christine, Carol Ohmart

Synopsis: From at least the 1930s on to the 1970s, the upbeat protestant minister, Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, ministered to the well-heeled and upwardly mobile of the United States from his pulpit at the Riverside church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. At least as positive-thinking as the similarly Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Run for Doom

Actors: John Gavin, Diana Dors, Scott Brady, Carl Benton Reid, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: Head over heels in love with brassy nightclub singer Niki Carroll (Diana Dors), Dr. Don Reed (John Gavin) intends to marry her despite the objections of his father, Horace Reed (Carl Benton Reid), and Niki's former boyfriend, Bill Floyd (Scott Brady). Even the fact that all three of Niki's former Read More

War Hunt

Actors: John Saxon, Robert Redford, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Robert Redford makes his big-screen debut in this off-beat war drama that tells the tail of a new replacement on the Korean front line. It is his first time in battle, and he comes all starry eyed and eager to prove himself a glorious hero. Obviously a greenhorn, the platoon commander takes the Read More

Combat!: The Prisoner

Synopsis: Pvt. Braddock (Shecky Greene) is strongarmed into serving as jeep driver for Froggy Clyde (Keenan Wynn, a brash, bullying American colonel. Circumstances dictate that Braddock don Clyde's field jacket--at which point he is mistaken for the colonel and captured by the Germans, who hope to exchange Read More