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Emmy-winning actor Tom Skerritt, with roles in Alien and Top Gun, dies at 93

CBC News · October 22, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

Emmy-winning actor Tom Skerritt, with roles in Alien and Top Gun, dies at 93

Tom Skerritt, the Emmy-winning actor who embodied a solid, wry authority figure, whether 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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