2026-10-23 · Daily Mail
🔮 'He cared deeply about imagination, creativity, storytelling, service, veterans, the natural world and helping others find and share their own voices,' his family said in a statement
He also starred alongside Tom Cruise in the original Top Gun movie, taking on the role of Mike 'Viper' Metcalf
Skerritt is pictured in the 1970 war classic M*A*S*H with Donald Sutherland
The performer is pictured with David E. Kelley and actress Kathy Baker after Picket Fences won Best Drama Series at the 1993 Emmy Awards
Skerritt also starred alongside Sally Field in the 1989 classic Steel Magnolias
He also appeared in Brothers & Sisters, The West Wing, Will & Grace, Roseanne, Cannon, and The Twilight Zone.
Skerritt even had a theatre career, appearing as the narrator in a 2004 production of Our Town at Seattle’s Intiman Theatre.
He made his Broadway debut in 2013 in a stage adaptation of John Grisham’s A Time to Kill. assertive
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