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Actor: Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt played Dallas in Alien, the top-billed captain whose early death was the film’s structural surprise, telling the audience nobody was safe.

MASH, Top Gun and A River Runs Through It fill out a long career, and Picket Fences won him an Emmy.

He served in the Air Force, taught film at the University of Washington, and founded a program for veterans in the arts. Contact and The Dead Zone gave him further genre work.

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Donald Sutherland

MAS*H (1970)

Robert Altman's 1970 Korean War satire. Sutherland and Gould as wartime surgeons.

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Harry Dean Stanton

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Experiencing it blind, in a dark theater, with an audience that had no idea what was coming, that was specific and unrepeatable. The 8 reflects both what the film achieved and what watching it now is like, which are different…

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Contact is a film about a scientist so committed to empirical evidence that she rejects faith, who then has a transcendent personal experience, returns with no physical evidence it occurred, and is expected by the film to continue believing in…