Tom Skerritt Filmography

Whiteout

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short, Alex O'Loughlin

Synopsis: A U.S. marshall tracking a vicious murderer through the Antarctic must locate the killer before the sun sets for six months, or risk being trapped in the dark with the madman for months on end in director Dominic Sena's adaptation of the graphic novel series by Greg Rucka. U.S. marshall Carrie 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

Multiple Sarcasms

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino

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

Brothers & Sisters: Season 02

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honor Bound

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

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: 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

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

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

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: 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

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

Bitter Creek

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

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

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

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 (