Top 3 Roles?

A very young Skerritt was in a GREAT Bonanza episode, where he sequesters all the main characters in a deserted town in order to show them what it was like to have his father hanged while he was helpless to do anything.
Really one of those edge-of-your-seat, well-directed, rather intense vignettes that was so focused I think I could watch it over-and-over. A perfect little playlet and Tom was the emotionally wounded yet very capable bad guy.
Always love running into him in these guest roles early in his career.

Alien
Steel Magnolias
Top Gun

Not a great movie, but I liked him in Poison Ivy as well.

Was great as Strawberry in Up In Smoke. Killed that Mynah bird for commenting on his birthmark.

The Turing Point
that football movie
something else I can't remember the title of

I think he was in M*A*S*H. I used to think that was a great movie, when I was fifteen. Now I realize it's crap about irresponsible, juvenile jagoffs.

Nightmare at Bittercreek
Poison Ivy
High Noon

Alien
Whiteout
The Kolchak episode "The Devil's Platform"

alien
poltergeist 3
big man on campus

Picket Fences
Alien
A River Runs Through It

Alien
The Dead Zone, it was a small role, but he was a very likeable sheriff.
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