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.

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 the 1968 Columbo pilot TV-film Prescription: Murder, 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.

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1943	Wagon Wheels West	Jan Colburn	Short film
1943	The Return of the Vampire	Nicki Saunders
1944	Nine Girls	Alice Blake
	She's a Soldier Too	Tessie Legruda
	Shadows in the Night	Lois Garland
	Cry of the Werewolf	Celeste
	Strange Affair	Frieda Brenner
	She's a Sweetheart	Jeanne
1945	A Song to Remember	Constantia
	I Love a Mystery	Ellen Monk
	Escape in the Fog	Eileen Carr
	Boston Blackie's Rendezvous	Sally Brown
	A Thousand and One Nights	Harem Girl	Uncredited
	My Name Is Julia Ross	Julia Ross
	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
	Family Blessings	Peg Miller	Television film
	Shadow of Doubt	Sylvia Saxon
2002	Pumpkin	Betsy Collander
2003	How to Deal	Grandma Halley
2004	Back When We Were Grownups	Mrs. Holmes	Television film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1949	The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse	Elizabeth	Episode: "Three Cornered Moon"
1949	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"
1951–1952	Lights Out		Episodes: "Blood Relation", "The House of Dust"
1951–1952	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"
1956	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"
1958	Pursuit	Mrs. Claire Holden	Episode: "Ticket to Tangier"
1959	The Thin Man		Episode: "Lady Frankenstein"
1959	Rawhide	Madrina Wilcox	Episode: "Incident of the Judas Trap"
1960	The Play of the Week	Andromache	Episode: "Tiger at the Gates"
1960	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?"
1964	Mr. Broadway	Maggie	Episode: "Maggie, Queen of the Jungle"
1965	Dr. Kildare	Georgia Pettigrew	Episode: "My Name is Lisa, and I Am Lost"
1965	Combat!	Madame Carmaux	Episode: "The Casket"
1966	A Man Called Shenandoah	Marlee Cole	Episode: "Marlee"
1966	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"
1969	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"
1971	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"
1974	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
2000	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)

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	^[3]
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	N/a	Director ANTA Theatre	^[2]

Year	Program	Episode	Ref.
1952	Cavalcade of America	"The Nurse Who Forgot Fear"	^[4]
	Philip Morris Playhouse	"The Room Beyond"	^[4]
	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]

List of Nina Foch performances

Television

Stage credits

Radio appearances

References

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