Tom Skerritt, the versatile actor who over his 60-plus year career played memorable roles in projects such as Top Gun, Picket Fences, M*A*S*H and Alien, has died.

Tom Skerritt, the affable, generally soft-spoken, simultaneously folksy and commanding Emmy Award-winning actor whose best-known roles were in films as different as “M*A*S*H,” “Alien” and “Steel Magno...