00:00Some of you may have figured out we're not home yet.
00:041979, or maybe sometime in the distant future,
00:08on board the spaceship Nostromo.
00:11Tom Skerritt in the defining role of Captain Dallas in Alien,
00:16Ridley Scott's renowned sci-fi horror film.
00:19So calm, so assured was Skerritt as a leading man,
00:23it came as quite a shock when his character was killed off early on.
00:28S.O.S. I don't know.
00:30Human?
00:31Unknown.
00:33Announcing his death, his family said they were heartbroken by his loss,
00:37adding that we knew him for his humour, curiosity, wisdom, generosity,
00:42and the love he brought into our lives.
00:46Tom Skerritt was born in 1933 in Detroit, Michigan.
00:50After four years in the U.S. Air Force, he eventually set his sights on being an actor.
00:55His real breakthrough came in Robert Altman's M.A.S.H.,
00:58a political satire set during the Korean War.
01:02In a career lasting more than 60 years,
01:05he appeared on stage, on television, and on the silver screen.
01:09He was described as a man who cared deeply
01:12about imagination, creativity, and storytelling.
01:16About imagination, creativity, and storytelling.
