Highlights from the acting career of Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt, the Emmy-winning actor who embodied a solid, wry authority figure as a flight instructor in Top Gun, a tough-but-fair sheriff on TV’s Picket Fences or the doomed captain of Alien, has died. He was 93.

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