Tom Skerritt, the Emmy-winning actor whose screen career stretched from the early 1960s into the 2020s, has died at 93. His family said he died Wednesday, Oct. 21, of natural causes and announced his death the next day. Skerritt won the 1993 lead-actor Emmy for the CBS drama “Picket Fences” and was also widely known for “Alien,” “Top Gun” and “M*A*S*H.” The family asked for privacy.

Sources: Associated Press (Oct. 22): apnews.com source ↗ ; Los Angeles Times (Oct. 22): latimes.com source ↗