{"id":127466,"date":"2025-05-31T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=127466"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:51:22","slug":"beloved-mash-actress-loretta-swit-dead-at-aged-87-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=127466","title":{"rendered":"Beloved M*A*S*H Actress Loretta Swit Dead at Aged 87 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=127466\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=127466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-127467 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download-14.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download-14-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy awards for her role as Major Margaret \u201cHot Lips\u201d Houlihan on M*A*S*H died on Friday, 30 May. She was 87.<\/p>\n<p>M*A*S*H followed a mobile Army surgical hospital during the Korean war, ran for 11 seasons from 1972 to 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Swit was nominated 10 times, every year the show was on the air except the first \u2014 and appeared on 240 of the series\u2019 251 episodes and became the first cast-member to visit Korea when, in 1988, she hosted the syndicated documentary \u201cKorean War &#8211; The Untold Story\u201d. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Her first acting roles were in \u201cMission Impossible\u201d, \u201cMannix\u201d, \u201cGunsmoke\u201d and \u201cHawaii Five-O\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She starred alongside Tyne Daly on the 1981 pilot for \u201dCagney &amp; Lacey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She was an animal rights activist, and established SwitHeart Animal Alliance, a charity to campaign against animal cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>Loretta Jane Szwed was born on 4 Nov, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends their condolences to the Swit family in their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; 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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. 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