The American actor Tom Skerritt has died at the age of 93, his publicist told CBS News on Thursday. His family said he died of natural causes on Wednesday.
Skerritt was known for film roles in Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias, Contact and A River Runs Through It, in which Robert Redford cast him as the stern minister father. On television he starred in the CBS drama Picket Fences, which earned him two Emmy nominations and the award for outstanding lead actor in a drama series in 1993.
Born in Detroit, he served in the Air Force before studying film at the University of California, Los Angeles. His screen debut came in the 1962 Korean War film War Hunt. Later in his career he worked on stage in Seattle and made his Broadway debut in 2013 in an adaptation of A Time to Kill.
Source: CBS News
