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Born on Aug. 25, 1933 in Detroit, MI, Skerritt was raised by his father, Roy, the owner of a small business, and his mother, Helen, a homemaker. Spending his entire youth growing up in the Motor ...
Mar 11, 2024 · Tom Skerritt knew Alien was going to be a hit about halfway into production. He turned to co-star Yaphet Kotto (Parker) at one point and said, "We’re making a classic, you know that?" Without ...
May 29, 2022 · — Tom Skerritt on Tom Cruise "At 17, I enlisted right out of high school," he continued. "I thought maybe I can sneak in and become a pilot, which was not possible.
Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt[1] (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who played Dallas in the 1979 film Alien. He later lent his voice and likeness to the character in the 2014 video game Alien: Isolation and its expansion packs. He is perhaps best known for his role as Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf in Top Gun (1986). Skerritt has been nominated for two Golden Globes, three Screen Actors ...
Sep 24, 2021 · East of the Mountains: Directed by S.J. Chiro. With Tom Skerritt, Mira Sorvino, Annie Gonzalez, Wally Dalton. Based on the best-selling novel by David Guterson When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog back to his boyhood home in Eastern Washington, determined to end his life on his own terms.
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Sep 23, 2021 · Instead, Ben (Tom Skerritt) reconsiders killing himself in the home he and his wife shared and decides to stage a hunting accident. With his sweet spaniel and a shotgun, Ben drives east, away from ...
And it still works tremendously -- but let me tell you, in 1979 a major studio science-fiction/horror film that hinted darkly of interspecies rape and impregnation was unspeakably disturbing. (It got under my skin and has stayed there. We have a symbiotic relationship, this burrowing movie parasite and I.
