While in his last year at UCLA, Tom Skerritt debuted as a film actor in WAR HUNT, an independent 1962 anti-war film that also featured New York theater actors Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack. Since then, Skerritt has appeared in more than 35 feature films, including Robert Altman’s MASH, ALIEN, TOP GUN, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, HAROLD AND MAUDE, THE TURNING POINT and CONTACT. He is a winner of an Emmy Award for Best Actor for his role in CBS’s Picket Fences and has directed many episodic and long-form television productions.