Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy prizes for his role in the popular comedy series, died on Friday, according to her advertising agent.
Loretta Swit, the actress in the Mash Photo series: X
Loretta died at his home in New York at the age of 87, Harlan Boll told BBC. The report of the forensic doctor has not yet been published.
In Mash, Swit played the medical assistant in the US Army, Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan. The series, which followed the activity of an army’s mobile surgical hospital during the Korean war, had 11 seasons, between 1972 and 1983, according to the BBC.
Swit has been nominated for numerous awards and appeared in almost all the episodes of the series, including at the end that attracted a record number of 106 million American viewers.
The series remains one of the most successful and appreciated series in the history of American television. The end of the season was the most watched episode in the history of TV series, when it ended in 1983.
In the role of “Hot Lips”, Swit performed a nurse in the army, hard, but vulnerable, who gained the nickname after having an adventure with Major Frank Burns, played by Larry Linville.
The series used comedy and farces to address difficult problems such as racism, sexism and impact of post-traumatic stress syndrome in the army, in a time when American forces were retired from Vietnam and faced the consequences of that conflict. He was based on the 1968 book, “Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors”, Written by a former military surgeon.
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Swit was born under the name of Loretta Szwed in New Jersey and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
In addition to Mash, she also appeared in many other TV series, movies and even entertainment shows throughout her career.
He played on the stage on Broadway in plays such as Same Time, Next Year, Moms and Shirley Valentine, for which he won the most important Chicago theater award, Sarah Siddons Award.
His television activity included appearances in The Muppet Show, Mission: Impossible and Murder, She Wrote.
In addition to the Emmy Awards, Swit was nominated for four Golden Globe prizes.
“For me, the acting does not mean to hide, but to reveal yourself. We give you permission to feel“, She said in an interview with Star magazine in 2010.”This is the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, it means you are dead. ”
Talking to an author about her character in Mash, she said: “Around the second or third year, I decided to try to interpret it as a real person, in a smart way, even though that meant to break the jokes. … he was a constantly changing character; He never stopped developing. “
Swit was also an artist and activist for animal rights and set up a charitable organization to advise cruelty to animals, according to a statement by her advertising agent.
Jamie Farr, who also played in Mash in the role of Corporal Klinger, called Swit “his adoptive sister ”.
“From our first meeting, which had to be a day appearance in Mash, we have embraced and this has become a friendship for life.” Farr said in a statement.
“I cannot express how much we will miss.”
