Tom Skerritt, star of Top Gun and Alien, dies aged 93

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Skerritt served in the US Air Force before pursuing an acting career US actor Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series Picket Fences and the films Alien and Top Gun, has died aged 93, his family says. He made his film debut in 1962 alongside a young Robert Redford ​in War Hunt and years later reunited with Redford in the 1992 period drama A River Runs Through It, which starred Brad Pitt. Skerritt's breakthrough role came when he played US army surgeon Duke Forrest in the 1970 Korean War comedy Mash, which also starred Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould and Sally Kellerman.