The veteran character actor spent six decades playing calm, capable men in films from 'M*A*S*H' to 'Top Gun' — and finally won an Emmy playing a small-town sheriff. Tom Skerritt, the everyman actor ...

The Emmy winner played Viper in Top Gun, Captain Dallas in Alien and the small-town sheriff on Picket Fences. His family says he died Wednesday, Oct. 21, of natural causes. Tom Skerritt, the actor who ...