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Tom Skerritt , the American screen actor who was first billed in Ridley Scott’s horror classic “ Alien ” (1979) and sustained a career spanning more than seven decades, died Wednesday of natural causes, according to media reports . He was 93. Skerritt first rose to prominence with a breakout turn in Robert Altman’s Korean War comedy “ M*A*S*H ,” playing the surgeon Duke Forrest. He was third-billed in the feature, after then-more-established stars Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould.

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