M*A*S*H (1970)
Robert Altman's 1970 Korean War satire. Sutherland and Gould as wartime surgeons.
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 programme for veterans in the arts. Contact and The Dead Zone gave him further genre work.
