List of Nina Foch performances

Nina Foch (April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was an American actress whose career spanned over six decades. She began her career appearing in B movies for Columbia Pictures at age 19, and subsequently starred in several Broadway productions in the late 1940s and 1950s. She went on to gain widespread attention for her role as Milo Roberts in An American in Paris (1951), and gained critical notice for her role in the drama Executive Suite (1954), for which she won a National Board of Review Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Foch in Escape in the Fog (1945)

Other notable roles included as Bithiah in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), and as Helena Glabrus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960). Beginning in the 1960s, Foch shifted her focus to teaching, and began instructing at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, but continued to appear in numerous television series and occasional films, such as columbo prescription murder 1968 Mahogany (1975), The Great Houdini (1976), and the horror film Jennifer (1978).

Foch's later film credits include the thriller Hush, the independent comedy-drama Pumpkin (2002), and the romantic comedy How to Deal (2003). Foch made her final screen appearance in a 2007 episode of the television series The Closer, before her death in December 2008, aged 84.

Film

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1943 Wagon Wheels West Jan Colburn Short film
1943 The Return of the Vampire Nicki Saunders
1944 Nine Girls Alice Blake
1944 She's a Soldier Too Tessie Legruda
1944 Shadows in the Night Lois Garland
1944 Cry of the Werewolf Celeste
1944 Strange Affair Frieda Brenner
1944 She's a Sweetheart Jeanne
1945 A Song to Remember Constantia
1945 I Love a Mystery Ellen Monk
1945 Escape in the Fog Eileen Carr
1945 Boston Blackie's Rendezvous Sally Brown
1945 A Thousand and One Nights Harem Girl Uncredited
1945 My Name Is Julia Ross Julia Ross
1945 Prison Ship Anne Graham
1947 Johnny O'Clock Harriet Hobson
1947 The Guilt of Janet Ames Susie Pearson
1948 The Dark Past Betty
1949 The Undercover Man Judith Warren
1949 Johnny Allegro Glenda Chapman
1951 St. Benny the Dip Linda Kovacs
1951 An American in Paris Milo Roberts
1952 Young Man With Ideas Joyce Laramie
1952 Scaramouche Marie Antoinette
1953 Sombrero Elena Cantu
1953 Fast Company Mercedes Bellway
1954 Executive Suite Erica Martin National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress
Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1954 Four Guns to the Border Maggie Flannery
1955 You're Never Too Young Gretchen Brendan Martin and Lewis comedy
1955 Illegal Ellen Miles
1956 The Ten Commandments Bithiah
1956 Three Brave Men Lt. Mary Jane McCoy
1959 Ten Little Indians Vera Claythorne Television film
1960 Cash McCall Maude Kennard
1960 Spartacus Helena Glabrus
1968 Columbo: Prescription: Murder Carol Flemming Television film
1969 Gidget Grows Up Bibi Crosby Television film
1971 Such Good Friends Julie's mother
1972 The Scarecrow Goodie Rickby Television film
1973 Female Artillery Amelia Craig Television film
1973 Salty Mrs. Penninger
1975 Mahogany Miss Evans
1976 The Great Houdini Rev. Le Veyne Television film
1978 Jennifer Mrs. Calley
1978 Child of Glass Lavinia Culp Television film
1979 Ebony, Ivory and Jade Dr. Adela Teba Television film
1981 Rich and Famous Literary party guest
1986 Nomads Real estate agent
1988 Dixie Lanes Hazel Laidlaw
1988 Outback Bound Samantha's Mother Television film
1989 Skin Deep Alex's Mother
1992 In the Arms of a Killer Mrs. Venible Television film
1992 The Sands of Time Ellen Scot Television film
1993 Sliver Evelyn McEvoy
1993 Morning Glory Miss Beasly
1994 Alien Nation: Dark Horizon Burak Television film
1996 It's My Party Mrs. Theis
1997 'Til There Was You Sophia Monroe
1998 Hush Alice Baring
1998 Family Blessings Peg Miller Television film
1998 Shadow of a Doubt Sylvia Saxon
2002 Pumpkin Betsy Collander
2003 How to Deal Grandma Halley
2004 Back When We Were Grownups Mrs. Holmes Television film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1949 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse Elizabeth Episode: "Three Cornered Moon"
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre Wife Episodes: "Temporarily Purple", "Half an Hour"
1949-1954 Suspense
1950-1952 Lux Video Theatre Episodes: "The Key", "The Magnolia Touch", "Dames Are Poison", "Mine to Have"
1951 Two Girls Named Smith
The Nash Airflyte Theatre Episode: "The Case of the Calico Dog"
Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre Episode: "The Bride from Broadway"
Cameo Theatre Episode: "Betrayal"
Somerset Maugham TV Theatre Episode: "In Hiding"
1951-52 Lights Out Episodes: "Blood Relation", "The House of Dust"
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse Episodes: "The Jungle", "The Skin of Our Teeth", "The Buccaneer", "Icebound"
1952 Chesterfield Presents Episode: "A Moment of Memory"
Schlitz Playhouse Episode: "World So Wide"
Tales of Tomorrow Episode: "Bound Together"
1952-1958 Studio One in Hollywood Eight episodes
1953 Hollywood Opening Night Episode: "Legal Affair"
Armstrong Circle Theatre Episodes: "Ski Story", "Only This Night"
The Philip Morris Playhouse Episode: "Room 203"
1954 Justice Episode: "Ride with Terror"
Danger Episodes: "See No Evil", "Hand Me Down"
Producers' Showcase Kaye Thorndyke Episode: "State of the Union"
1954-1960 The United States Steel Hour Julia Walton / Grace Barlow Four episodes
1955 The Colgate Comedy Hour Sophia Teale Episode: "Roberta"
1955-1957 Climax! Caroline Emmet / Emily Rone Episodes: "Deadly Climate", "Night of Execution"
1955-1959 The Loretta Young Show Joan Rogers / Mrs. Graff Episodes: "The Red Dress", "Reunion"
1956 The 20th Century-Fox Hour Susan Harland / Joan Byrnes Episodes: "One Life", "Yacht on the High Sea"
Playwrights '56 Belle Thurmond / Mrs. Scott Episodes: "The Undiscovered Country", "The Answer"
1956-1958 Playhouse 90 Three episodes
1957 The Alcoa Hour Brita Episode: "A Double Life"
Kraft Theatre Episodes: "Nothing Personal", "A Night of Rain"
Wagon Train Clara Beauhaump Episode: "The Clara Beauchamp Story"
1958 Matinee Theatre Beatrice Episodes: "Much Ado About Nothing, Pt. 1", "Much Ado About Nothing, Pt.2"
Pursuit Mrs. Claire Holden Episode: "Ticket to Tangier"
1959 The Thin Man Episode: "Lady Frankenstein"
Rawhide Madrina Wilcox Episode: "Incident of the Judas Trap"
1960 The Play of the Week Andromache Episode: "Tiger at the Gates"
Moment of Fear Sally Mellanby Episode: "The Golden Deed"
1961 The Americans Rose Greenbow Episode: "The Rebellious Rose"
Shirley Temple's Storybook Merwitch Episode: "The Little Mermaid"
Checkmate Anne Elliot Episode: "State of Shock"
1961-1964 Route 66 Samantha / Autumn Ely / Lillian Aldrich Four episodes
1962 Bus Stop Kitty Blaine Episode: "Cry to Heaven"
The Dick Powell Theatre Ginny Thatcher Episode: "The Seeds of April"
Theatre '62 Mrs. Danvers Episode: "Rebecca"
Naked City Kitty Lamson / Maude Hutchinson Episodes: "The Sweetly Smiling Face of Truth", "The Fingers of Henri Tourelle"
1963 The Virginian Frances Graham Episode: "Vengeance is the Spur"
Sam Benedict Nora Hildon Episode: "Of Rusted Cannons and Fallen Sparrows"
Arrest and Trial Ellen Burnham Episode: "My Name is Martin Burnham"
Kraft Suspense Theatre Sarah Middleton Episode: "The End of the World, Baby"
The Greatest Show on Earth Angelica Cellini Episode: "Leaves in the Wind"
The Outer Limits Eva Fraser Episode: "The Borderland"
1964 Burke's Law Anjanette Delacroix Episode: "Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?"
Mr. Broadway Maggie Episode: "Maggie, Queen of the Jungle"
1965 Dr. Kildare Georgia Pettigrew Episode: "My Name is Lisa, and I Am Lost"
Combat! Madame Carmaux Episode: "The Casket"
1966 A Man Called Shenandoah Marlee Cole Episode: "Marlee"
The Long, Hot Summer Carlotta Episode: "Carlotta, Come Home"
1967 I Spy Gerta Episode: "Child Out of Time"
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Vera Stannard / Dee Episodes: "A Time to Love", "And Baby Makes Five"
Bonanza Clarissa Cartwright Episode: "Clarissa"
1968-1970 The Name of the Game Mrs. Fredericks / Angela Morgan Three episodes
1968-1973 The Mod Squad Mrs. Dykstra / Virginia Westphal Episodes: "Don't Kill My Child", "Love"
1969 The Wild Wild West Duchess Sophia Episode: "The Night of the Cossacks"
Gunsmoke Agatha Corey Episode: "Coreyville"
1970 Paris 7000 Episode: "No Place to Hide"
The F.B.I. Terry Simms Episode: "The Dealer"
To Rome with Love Diana Masterson Episode: "Beautiful People"
McCloud Police Sergeant F.J. Dameron Episode: "Walk in the Dark"
1971 That Girl Frances Nelson Episode: "That Script"
Men at Law Episode: "Marathon"
1973 Hawaii Five-O Marian Scott Episode: "Little Girl Blue"
The Brian Keith Show Mrs. Peterson Episode: "Sean's Midas Touch"
The Wide World of Mystery Nellie Episode: "A Little Bit Like Murder"
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law Sylvia Mitchell Episode: "A Lesson in Loving"
1973-1976 Barnaby Jones Myra Westmore / Eleanor DeRoche Episodes: "The Stalking Horse", "Divorce - Murderer's Style"
1974 The Magician Irene Denore Episode: "The Illusion of the Stainless Steel Lady"
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak Ceil Episode: "Oh Baby, Baby, Baby"
1975 Kolchak: The Night Stalker Madame Trevi Episode: "The Trevi Collection"
1977 McMillan (formally McMillan and Wife) Marietta Galway Episode: "Phillip's Game"
1979 Lou Grant Mrs. Polk Episode: "Hollywood"
1985-1986 Shadow Chasers Dr. Juliana Moorhouse Three episodes
1986 Trapper John, M.D. Julie Luden Episode: "Play Your Hunch"
Comedy Factory Hannah Kingsley Episode: "Chameleon"
The New Mike Hammer Mildred Hoftsteder Episode: "The Golden Lady"
1988 War and Remembrance Comtesse de Chambrun Mini-series
1990 Room for Romance Episode: "A Midsummer Night's Reality"
L.A. Law Marcia Schwartz Episode: "Smoke Gets in Your Thighs"
Hunter Gloria Morrell Episode: "Acapulco Holiday"
Dear John Mrs. Lacey Episode: "Homeward Bound"
1991-1994 Murder, She Wrote Rebecca Kinkaid / Katie Emhardt Episodes: "Death in Hawaii", "Tainted Lady"
1992 Reasonable Doubts Carmela Kaufman Episodes: "Lifelines, Pt. 1", "Lifelines, Pt. 2"
1993 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City Frannie Halcyon Five episodes
1994 Missing Persons Bernice Episode: "If You Could Pick Your Own Parents..."
1999 Dharma & Greg Beatrice Episode: "Death & Violins"
2000 Bull Madeleine Eight episodes
Just Shoot Me! Catherine DuChamp Episode: "Dial 'N' for Murder"
2005-2006 NCIS Mrs. Victoria Mallard Episodes: "Untouchable", "The Meat Puzzle"
2007 The Closer Doris Donnelly Episode: "The Round File", (final appearance)

Stage credits

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1947 John Loves Mary Mary McKinley Music Box Theatre [1]
1949 Twelfth Night Olivia Empire Theatre [2]
1950 A Phoenix Too Frequent Dynamene Fulton Theatre [2]
1950 King Lear Cordelia National Theatre [2]
1955 Measure for Measure Isabella Phoenix Theatre
American Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford
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1955 The Taming of the Shrew Katharine Phoenix Theatre
American Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford
[3]
1960 A Second String Jane Eugene O'Neill Theatre [2]
1967 Ways and Means Director
ANTA Theatre
[2]

Radio appearances

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Year Program Episode Ref.
1952 Cavalcade of America "The Nurse Who Forgot Fear" [4]
1952 Philip Morris Playhouse "The Room Beyond" [4]
1952 Theatre Guild on the Air The Unguarded Hour [5]
1953 Theatre Guild on the Air Cass Timberlane [6]
1953 Broadway Playhouse Plan for Escape [7]

References

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  1. ^ Simonson, Robert (December 8, 2008). "Nina Foch, Cultured Blonde of Stage and Screen, Dies at 84". Playbill. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Nina Foch". Playbill. Archived from the original on March 4, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Cooper, Roberta Krensky (1986). The American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford 1955-1985. Associated University Presses. p. 36. ISBN 978-0918016881.
  4. ^ a b Kirby, Walter (April 6, 1952). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 52. Retrieved May 16, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Kirby, Walter (December 28, 1952). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 36. Retrieved June 5, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Kirby, Walter (February 15, 1953). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 42. Retrieved June 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Kirby, Walter (March 1, 1953). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 46. Retrieved June 23, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.