Tom Skerritt

Imagination and instinct--Tom Skerritt insists that's as much of a formula as any actor needs to tell a good story. For the astonishing sixty years that he's been performing on screen, Tom has drawn from his own life experience to embody some of film history's most iconic characters, from Captain Dallas in ALIEN and TOP GUN's Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf, to the Reverend Maclean in A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT. Now at age 88, as Tom looks back on these and two of his most recent roles--a wizened Marine in our beloved LUCKY and his first feature lead in EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS--this Midwestern kid swears he's still pulling from within: "It's just all what I've learned in life."