Tom Skerritt has died.

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 ...

Skerritt's breakthrough role was a roguish US Army surgeon in director Robert Altman's 1970 Korean War black comedy "M*A*S*H," a film whose ensemble cast also included Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould...