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Tom Skerritt Actor

CLEARS 300 SHEEP FOR TAKEOFF AT NIGHT

Tom Skerritt counts sheep for sleep clinic, briefing each one before takeoff

Existence confidence provisional
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Tom Skerritt waits for a taxi on an Amsterdam towpath, calmly watching the sky like a flight commander.
Location
Behind the bean trellis at a Melbourne community garden, plot 14, facing the fence
Currently
N/A
Last confirmed sighting
Calling a flock over the fence, Thursday, 2:40 a.m., Brunswick
Observations
Can calm a paddock of nervous lambs by lowering one eyebrow at the horizon.

Tom Skerritt has taken a night post counting sheep for a sleep clinic beside a Melbourne community garden. He stands at the fence in aviator sunglasses and addresses each sheep as a pilot. The clinic reports that patients fall asleep by about sheep forty.

Skerritt is booked for a season of counting from the first Monday of spring, with a run of 8 nights per fortnight. A limited number of double-shift evenings are pencilled in for the long weekend. Sheep numbers are expected to rise to 300 per night.

At present he is trying to count in plain numbers, but each sheep still gets a call sign and a calm sentence about the weather ahead. Counting is going well, though sheep 212 keeps landing twice. The patients are asleep, but the flock is wide awake and wants a debrief.

Guidance for the public

Please keep the garden gate closed and your sheep in single file.

Actual status (not satire) Died 21 October 2026, aged 93. Source: Wikidata

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