Loretta Swit, Who Played Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on M*A*S*H, Dead at 87

Loretta Swit, the Emmy Award-winning actress who portrayed Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on M*A*S*H, has died at the age of 87.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Swit was found dead in her New York City home on Friday, May 30th, of suspected natural causes.

Swit won two Emmys for her portrayal of Major Houlihan, the head nurse of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH), on the long-running CBS series set during the Korean War. She appeared in 240 of the show’s 251 episodes and, along with Alan Alda, was one of only two actors to appear in both the pilot and the series finale.

Outside of her role on M*A*S*H, Swit was a regular on TV game shows including Match Game, The Hollywood Squares, and The $10,000 Pyramid; guest starred on episodes of Bonanza, The Love Boat, The Muppet Show, and Murder, She Wrote; and starred was active in number theaters productions, especially locally in Chicago.