Tom Skerritt obituary
US actor who often played authority figures and was admired for his film roles in Alien, Top Gun and A River Runs Through It The lean, rugged US actor Tom Skerritt, who has died aged 93, was described by one screenwriter as “a character actor trapped in a leading man’s body”.
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- He played Augustus “Duke” Forrest, a US army surgeon in the Korean war exuding southern charm at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
- Along with his fellow surgeons, Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce (played by Donald Sutherland) and “Trapper”….
Skerritt’s breakthrough had come in the 1970 film M*A*S*H, directed by Robert Altman.
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