FrameThrower · Actors · Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt
11 films · 1,061 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1970–2013
Born 25 August 1933 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Thomas Roy Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. He is known for his film roles in M*A*S*H, Alien, The Dead Zone, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, Up in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences. Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 1,061 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1970–2013
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series1993
- Mary Pickford Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,061 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tom takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Tom takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A River Runs Through It
1992 · Rev. Maclean
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991 · Ham McDonald
Poltergeist III
1988 · Bruce Gardner
The Dead Zone
1983 · Sheriff Bannerman
Alien
1979 · Dallas
MASH
1970 · Duke Forrest
At Middleton
2013 · Dr. Roland Emerson
Contact
1997 · David Drumlin
Top Gun
1986 · Viper
Thieves Like Us
1974 · Dee Mobley
A Hologram for the King
· Ron Clay
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,061 frames from Tom Skerritt's 11 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.