Tom Skerritt, Star of ‘Alien,’ ‘Top Gun,’ ‘Picket Fences,’ Dies at 93

NEW YORK (AP) — 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. The post Tom Skerritt, Star of ‘Alien,’ ‘Top Gun,’ ‘Pi