Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a surgical unit behind the lines of the Korean War on the hit TV series MASH, has died. She was 87.

Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on seminal TV comedy “MASH,” died Friday at her home in New York City. She was 87. Her rep Harlan Boll said she died of natural causes. More ...

Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean War on the pioneering hit TV series M.A.S.H ...

On M*A*S*H, Swit played US Army nurse Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan. The series, which followed a mobile Army surgical hospital during the Korean war, ran for 11 seasons from 1972 to 1983.

Loretta Swit won two Emmy Awards for playing head Army nurse Major Margaret Houlihan on the pioneering TV series Mark Kennedy Friday 30 May 2025 20:30 BST M*A*S*H theme song ...

Although M*A*S*H fans would have happily stuck around the 4077th for another five years, Swit says that she and her co-stars began seriously thinking about the series finale almost two years before ...

M*A*S*H icon Loretta Swit has passed away, it has been announced. The iconic actress died of natural causes at her home in New York City. Her representative Harlan Boll said that the New York police ...

Loretta Swit has died at the age of 84, with the M*A*S*H star's cause of death revealed as natural causes, as tributes have poured in for the beloved TV icon News Joel Leaver Showbiz Reporter and ...

Caption: Loretta Swit poses in Los Angeles, Calif., on Nov. 21, 1983. The actor, who portrayed head nurse Major Margaret Houlihan on TV's MASH, has died at age 87. (Wally Fong/The Associated Press) ...

Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on seminal TV comedy “MASH,” died Friday at her home in New York City. She was 87. Her rep Harlan Boll said she died of natural causes. For ...

Loretta Swit, Emmy-winner who played Houlihan on TV's M*A*S*H, has died at 87 The growing awareness of feminism in the '70s spurred Houlihan's transformation from caricature to real person, but a ...