Biography
Pat Skipper, born William Patterson Skipper on 23 September 1958 in Lakeland, Florida, is an American actor. He was educated at Florida State University and Yale University.
He has appeared in films including Demolition Man (1993) as the Helicopter Pilot, Independence Day (1996) as a Redneck, The Rock (1996), Babylon (2022) as William Randolph Hearst, and Oppenheimer (2023) as James Byrnes. Television credits include roles in The X-Files and Boston Legal. Skipper wrote the book The Working Actor in 2015.
