{
  "id": 16108842,
  "title": "Emmy-winning actor Tom Skerritt, with roles in Alien and Top Gun, dies at 93",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/emmy-winning-actor-tom-skerritt-with-roles-in-alien-and-top-gun-dies",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-22T21:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tom-skerritt-dead-alien-top-gun-actor-9.7392164"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}