Beloved M*A*S*H Actress Loretta Swit Dead at Aged 87 – Entertainment News
By Karen Beishuizen
Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy awards for her role as Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on M*A*S*H died on Friday, 30 May. She was 87.
M*A*S*H followed a mobile Army surgical hospital during the Korean war, ran for 11 seasons from 1972 to 1983.
Swit was nominated 10 times, every year the show was on the air except the first — and appeared on 240 of the series’ 251 episodes and became the first cast-member to visit Korea when, in 1988, she hosted the syndicated documentary “Korean War – The Untold Story”.
Her first acting roles were in “Mission Impossible”, “Mannix”, “Gunsmoke” and “Hawaii Five-O”.
She starred alongside Tyne Daly on the 1981 pilot for ”Cagney & Lacey”.
She was an animal rights activist, and established SwitHeart Animal Alliance, a charity to campaign against animal cruelty.
Loretta Jane Szwed was born on 4 Nov, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey.
Ringside Report sends their condolences to the Swit family in their time of grief.
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