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, A River Runs Through It, Harold and Maude, The Turning Point, Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias and Contact. He is a winner of an Emmy Award for Best Actor for his role in CBS’s Picket Fencesand has directed many episodic and long-form television productions.