{"id":159177,"date":"2026-10-22T21:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159177"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:02:38","slug":"tom-skerritt-star-of-alien-and-top-gun-dies-at-93united-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159177","title":{"rendered":"Tom Skerritt, star of Alien and Top Gun, dies at 93United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostVersatile actor Tom Skerritt, who starred in Hollywood megahits including the sci-fi classic Alien, the \u2060war comedy M*A*S*H, and the action drama Top Gun, \u2060has died at the age of 93.<br \/>\nSkerritt, a Detroit native \u2060whose Hollywood career spanned from the 1960s to the 2020s, died on Wednesday of natural causes, his family said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile the world knew Tom through his remarkable acting career, we knew him for his humour, curiosity, wisdom, generosity and the love he brought into our&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3371834\/tom-skerritt-star-alien-and-top-gun-dies-93\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostVersatile actor Tom Skerritt, who starred in Hollywood megahits including the sci-fi classic Alien, the \u2060war comedy M*A*S*H, and the action&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}