26-1058: Justin Shenkarow is an American actor, producer, director and writer, best known for his roles of Matthew Brock in Picket Fences , Simon Holmes in Eerie, Indiana , and the voice of Harold Berman from the Nickelodeon animated series, Hey Arnold! . Shenkarow has starred in television and film for over 30 years. He received three Young Artist Award nominations for his work as an actor on Picket Fences . He has starred in television shows including Eerie, Indiana , Home Improvement , The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , Strong Medicine , and Boston Public . Shenkarow's production company, Shake That Fro Productions, has produced three short films in 2006 which he wrote, produced, directed and starred in, Decoy , The Best Christmas Ever and Tears . In 2005 he appeared in two films, House of
52-549: A Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series , as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations. He also had a recurring role as Evan Drake on the sixth season of sitcom Cheers (1987-88). Skerritt is also a three-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee, a Genie Award nominee, and a Saturn Award winner. In 2022, he received the International Press Academy 's honorary Mary Pickford Award for "Outstanding Artistic Contribution to
78-504: A Catholic priest, and Dabbs Greer as the Reverend Henry Novotny, priest of the local Episcopal church. Picket Fences has a total of 88 episodes and four seasons. The series has two crossover episodes with another David E. Kelley series, Chicago Hope , one occurring in each series. In the first, on Picket Fences , Dr. Jill Brock accompanies Douglas Wambaugh to Chicago Hope Hospital over concerns of his heart. In
104-603: A fly-fishing loving minister and father of the two protagonist brothers in the film. Skerritt played a guest part in Ray Walston 's show My Favorite Martian in the 1963 episode "Mrs. Jekyll and Hyde" (Walston was a regular cast member thirty years later in Skerritt's show Picket Fences ). He also guest-starred in the television series The Real McCoys (1963), as a letter carrier in the episode "Aunt Win Steps In". He
130-801: A four-year tour of duty in the United States Air Force as a classifications specialist. Most of his enlistment was spent at Bergstrom Field , Austin, Texas. Skerritt made his film debut in War Hunt , produced by Terry Sanders and released in 1962. Skerritt's notable film appearances include M*A*S*H (1970), Harold and Maude (credited as "M. Borman", 1971), Fuzz , Big Bad Mama , Cheech & Chong 's Up in Smoke (1978), Ice Castles (1978), as Captain Dallas in Alien (1979), as
156-648: A would-be astronaut in Contact (1997) and SpaceCamp (1986), and in Top Gun (1986) as Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf. In 1988, he starred with Nancy Allen and Lara Flynn Boyle in Poltergeist III . In 1989, he played the role of Thomas Drummond "Drum" Eatenton in Steel Magnolias . In 1992, he appeared in the critically acclaimed Robert Redford -directed film A River Runs Through It , playing
182-567: Is an American family drama television series about the residents of the town of Rome, Wisconsin , created and produced by David E. Kelley . The show ran from September 18, 1992, to June 26, 1996, on CBS in the United States. It sometimes struggled to maintain a stable primetime audience and had fluctuating ratings, due in part to its Friday night death slot . In its first season on the air, it placed 63rd in prime-time Nielsen ratings and in its second season it moved to 61st. Nonetheless,
208-426: Is that the regular cast included a judge, two lawyers, and a medical examiner. Religious issues were frequently discussed, and the town's Catholic and Episcopal priests were frequently recurring characters, as well as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh's relationships in his local Jewish temple . Struggling to maintain order in the community is Sheriff Jimmy Brock ( Tom Skerritt ). Sheriff Brock is 52 years old, married to
234-531: The New Hollywood movement, with a breakthrough role as Duke Forrest in Robert Altman 's M*A*S*H . He then starred in notable films like The Turning Point , Up in Smoke , Ice Castles , Alien , The Dead Zone , Top Gun , and A River Runs Through It . On television, Skerritt played the leading role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock on the family drama Picket Fences (1992-96), earning
260-766: The X-Files episode, but there still are some small details left in the Picket Fences episode referring to the happenings at The X-Files and some minor characters there. The series was adapted in India in Hindi language and aired on StarPlus as Kehta Hai Dil from 2002 to 2005 produced by UTV Software Communications. However, the Indian version in between deviated entirely from the story of Picket Fences . On June 19, 2007, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released
286-457: The 1968 episode "Ten Day Millionaires", with Dabney Coleman as Twain's mining partner, Calvin H. Higby. The two lose a fortune in gold, but Twain learns his future is in writing. In 1972, Skerritt guest-starred in an episode of Cannon , titled "Nobody Beats the House", playing the role of a young gambler. In 1975, he guest-starred in another episode of Cannon titled "The Conspirators", playing
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#1732775655958312-681: The Dead 2 and Comedy Hell co-starring Eric Roberts . In 2004, he was elected to the Screen Actors Board and was recently elected to chair the Young Performer's Committee. In 2008, Shenkarow appeared on an episode of TLC 's Flip That House where he flipped a home in Sherman Oaks , California . In 2010, he was on an episode of The Millionaire Matchmaker looking for love. Picket Fences Picket Fences
338-586: The Entertainment Industry." Skerritt was born in Detroit , Michigan , the son of Helen, a homemaker, and Roy Skerritt, a businessman. He is the youngest of three children. A 1951 graduate of Detroit's Mackenzie High School , Skerritt attended Wayne State University and the University of California, Los Angeles . Skerritt enlisted just after graduating from high school, and served
364-577: The deceased William Walker in Brothers & Sisters , having appeared in the pilot and several flashbacks scenes. This was his second time playing the husband of a character played by Sally Field ; the first was in Steel Magnolias . He played the role of Ezekiel in ABC Family 's miniseries Fallen alongside Paul Wesley . He also appeared as the guide on the showcase website for Microsoft 's Windows Vista operating system. He lent his voice in
390-471: The episode "Heart of Saturday Night" was ranked #96 on TV Guide ' s 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time . In 2002, the character of Douglas Wambaugh was ranked 47th on TV Guide ' s 50 Greatest Television Characters of All Time list. Tom Skerritt Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor and director, who has appeared in over 170 film and television productions since 1962. The beginning of his film career coincided with
416-705: The first season of Picket Fences on DVD in Region 1. In the United States, the entire series was available to stream on Hulu from Thanksgiving 2021 to Thanksgiving 2023. On August 20, 2014, Season 1 was released in Australia. Season 2 was released in Australia in December 2014. Season 3 was released in Australia in March 2016. Picket Fences won fourteen Emmy Awards (including " Outstanding Drama Series " twice) and one Golden Globe Award in its four-year run. In 1997,
442-513: The primetime television of the period, such as abortion , incest , homophobia and LGBT adoption , transsexual , racism , belief in God , ethics in medicine , polygamy , polyamory , adolescent sexuality, date rape , cryonics , the Holocaust , shoe fetishism , masturbation , animal sacrifice , spontaneous human combustion , and constitutional rights . Illustrative of the subject matter
468-580: The role of a corrupt sheriff. Skerritt appeared in the ABC series Twelve O'Clock High (1964–1967, five episodes); Gunsmoke (1965–1972, also five episodes), and as Evan Drake on Cheers . He then appeared in CBS 's Picket Fences (1992–1996), in the role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock, for which he won an Emmy Award . More recently, he has starred in Homeland Security and The Grid . He portrayed
494-515: The second, Wambaugh is back at Chicago Hope Hospital causing trouble for the doctors. Lauren Holly later joined the cast of Chicago Hope as Dr. Jeremy Hanlon and Tom Skerritt appear in a different role as a guest star. David E. Kelley and Chris Carter (creator of The X-Files ) were talking in a parking lot on the Fox lot one day and thought it might be interesting to have Mulder and Scully visit Rome, Wisconsin for an X-Files episode. Originally,
520-456: The show won critical acclaim and was a major awards winner, winning 14 Primetime Emmy Awards during its run and is now regarded as a cult classic . The show's exteriors were shot in the L.A. suburb of Monrovia, California . The series follows the lives of the residents of the small town of Rome, Wisconsin, where weird things happen, including cows' udders exploding and people turning up dead in freezers. The show deals with unusual topics for
546-745: The town doctor, Jill ( Kathy Baker ), his second wife. They raise their three children, Kimberly ( Holly Marie Combs ) from Jimmy's first marriage to Lydia Brock ( Cristine Rose ), Matthew ( Justin Shenkarow ) and Zachary ( Adam Wylie ). Maxine 'Max' Stewart ( Lauren Holly ) and Kenny Lacos ( Costas Mandylor ) are impulsive and slightly immature sheriff's deputies . Kelly Connell played medical examiner Carter Pike (who regularly begged to be deputized) and Zelda Rubinstein portrayed police dispatcher Ginny Weedon. Bombastic lawyer Douglas Wambaugh ( Fyvush Finkel ) usually irritated Judge Henry Bone ( Ray Walston ). Wambaugh refused to hear any confessions of guilt from his clients as he feared that it would only stand in
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#1732775655958572-492: The two shows would be shot with different viewpoints – one from the X-Files perspective and the other from Picket Fences ' . The official approval was never given by Fox and CBS, so the only remnants remaining of this effort are the X-Files episode " Red Museum " and the Picket Fences episode "Away in the Manger" having similar plotlines involving cows. Every reference to Picket Fences has been purged from
598-525: The video game Gun (2005), in which he voices Clay Allison. He then guest-starred in seasons three and four of Leverage as Nate Ford's father. In February 2012, Skerritt played the title role in Pacific Northwest Ballet 's production of Don Quixote . In 2014, Skerritt was reunited with his ex- Picket Fences co-star, Lauren Holly , to star with her in Field of Lost Shoes . He
624-585: The way of adequately defending them in court; and Bone's rulings seemed to be directed more by his own moral compass than by points of law, though his decisions were almost never reversed. After several prosecutors came and went, Don Cheadle joined the cast as John Littleton. Other actors who were in the cast included Marlee Matlin as Mayor Laurie Bey / The Dancing Bandit, Richard Masur as Ed Lawson, Roy Brocksmith as elementary school principal Michael Oslo, Jack Murdock as ethically challenged city councilman Harold Lundstrom, Roy Dotrice as Father Gary Barrett,
650-521: Was cast in Bonanza in 1964 and in Death Valley Days in 1965, as a young gambler, Patrick Hogan, who meets a tragic fate after winning a small fortune in a saloon. In another Death Valley Days episode, "A Sense of Justice" (1966), he played a young Roy Bean with his elder brother, Joshua Bean , played by Tris Coffin . In a later Death Valley Days role, Skerritt played Mark Twain in
676-466: Was reunited with his Alien co-star Harry Dean Stanton in Lucky , the latter's last film (2017). In 1974, Skerrit portrayed Senator Robert Palmer in "The Devil's Platform", episode 7 of Kolchak: The Night Stalker . Skerritt is founder and chairman of Heyou Media, a Seattle-based digital media company. From 1957 to 1972, Skerritt was married to Charlotte Shanks, with whom he has three children. He
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