One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

He is best known for his roles in MASH Alien Top Gun A River Runs Through It Up in Smoke and the television series Picket Fences. He then appeared in CBS's Picket Fences (1992–1996) in the role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock for which he won an Emmy Award. He guest starred in seasons 3 and 4 of Leverage as Nate Ford's father.

Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt (born August 25 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. He is best known for his roles in MASH Alien Top Gun A River Runs Through It Up in Smoke and the television series Picket Fences.