{"id":1782,"date":"2026-10-22T21:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:52:24","slug":"top-gun-alien-star-tom-skerritt-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Top Gun,\u2019 \u2018Alien\u2019 star Tom Skerritt dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Gray News) – Emmy Award-winning actor Tom Skerritt, known for his roles in \u201cAlien,\u201d \u201cTop Gun,\u201d \u201cM*A*S*H,\u201d and more, died Wednesday. He was 93.<\/p>\n

He died of natural causes, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the world knew Tom through his remarkable acting career, we knew him for his humor, curiosity, wisdom, generosity, and the love he brought into our lives,\u201d his family wrote in a statement issued to media outlets, including People.<\/p>\n

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FILE – This June 7, 2012 file photo shows Tom Skerritt at the AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Shirley MacLaine in Culver City, Calif. Skerritt will make his Broadway debut in the stage adaptation of John Grisham’s legal thriller “A Time to Kill.” Skerritt joins a star-studded cast that includes Sebastian Arcelus, Chike Johnson, Patrick Page, Tonya Pinkins, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Douglas Thompson and Ashley Williams. Performances will begin Sept. 28 at the John Golden Theatre. Opening night is set for Oct. 20.<\/span>(Jordan Strauss | Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Gray News) – Emmy Award-winning actor Tom Skerritt, known for his roles in \u201cAlien,\u201d \u201cTop Gun,\u201d \u201cM*A*S*H,\u201d and more, died Wednesday. He was 93. He died of natural causes, according to The Associated Press. \u201cWhile the world knew Tom through his remarkable acting career, we knew him for his humor, curiosity, wisdom, generosity, and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}