Following Loretta Swit’s loss of life at age 87 yesterday, Could 30, her M*A*S*H costars are mourning her on social media, together with Alan Alda, who performed Capt. Benjamin “Hawkeye” Pierce on the comedy-drama collection.
“Loretta was a supremely proficient actor,” Alda wrote in an X publish in regards to the Maj. Margaret “Scorching Lips” Houlihan portrayer. “She deserved all her 10 Emmy nominations and her two wins. However greater than appearing her half, she created it. She labored laborious In displaying the writing workers how they might flip the character from a one-joke, sexist stereotype into an actual particular person — with actual emotions and ambitions. We celebrated the day the script got here out itemizing her character not as Scorching Lips however as Margaret. Loretta made essentially the most of her time right here.”
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Jamie Farr, who performed Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger on the present, additionally paid tribute to Swit. “I dearly liked Loretta!” Farr stated, per Leisure Weekly. “She was my adopted sister. As shut as household can get. From the primary time I met her, on what was purported to be a one-day look on M*A*S*H, we embraced one another, and that grew to become a lifetime friendship. I can’t start to [express] how a lot she can be missed.”
And Mike Farrell, who performed Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H, honored his late costar with a black-and-white picture of Swit and a caption studying, “Loretta… 1937-2025.”
Alda, Farr, Farrell, and costar Gary Burghoff (Cpl. Walter “Radar” O’Reilly) are the final surviving M*A*S*H collection regulars, and so they maintained an in depth relationship to Swit, as she advised Fox Information in 2017.
“We’d as nicely be joined on the hip!” she defined on the time. “We see one another fairly regularly… Each time we lose a comrade, it’s a physique blow. We really feel it harshly, badly. Individuals at all times ask me, ‘Do you ever see them?’ When do I not see them?! These aren’t informal acquaintances from years in the past. That is my household… A lot of my life will be credited to my household.”