NINA FOCH BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
 
Nina Foch was born on April 20th, 1924 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland in the Netherlands with the birth name Nina Consuelo Maud Fock.  Her father, Dirk Fock, was a Dutch musical composer and her mother, Consuelo Flowerton was an American Actress and vocalist.
 
When Foch was just a young girl, her parents marriage ended in divorce and she moved back to the united States with her mother and settled in New York.  As a young girl being born into a family involved in entertainment, her mother encouraged her to pursue the arts.  Foch took up piano lessons and  like her mother, also developed an interest in acting.
 
After completing high school she began to focus more on acting.  She received her training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and soon began to gain some experience as a stage actress.
 
At the age of nineteen she was signed to a contract with Columbia Studio's and began appearing in such films as, "The Return of the Vampire" (1944), "A Song to Remember" (1945), "My Name is Julia Ross" (1945), "I Love a Mystery" (1945), "The Guilt of Janet Ames" (1947), "The Dark Past" (1948) and "Johnny Allegro" (1949).
 
Over the course of her career she would add over eighty films credits and numerous television credits to her resume.  In the early 50's she left her contract with Columbia and began to turn her focus back to her career as a stage actress.  Some of her more successful theatrical credits included, "John Loves Mary", "The Respectful Prostitute", "Twelfth Night", "Measure for Measure" and "The Taming of the Shrew".
 
Although she loved performing on the big stage she continued to still work as a film actress.  Foch worked with MGM on such films as, "An American in Paris" (1951), "Executive Suite" (1954), "The Ten Commandments" (1956) and "Spartacus" (1960).
 
For her performance in, "Executive Suite", she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.  More recent film roles included, "War and Remembrance" (1988), "It's My Party" (1996), "Hush" (1998), "Pumpkin" 2002), "How to Deal" (2003) and the television movie "Back When We Were Grownups" (2004).  
 
In addition to stage and film credits, Foch also worked as a television actress.  She had a regular role on, "Playhouse 90".  Other television credits include, "Suspense", "Danger", "Wagon Train", "Rawhide", "Route 66", "Burke's Law", "Dr. Kildare", "Hawaii Five-O", "Barnaby Jones", "Murder, She Wrote", "N.C.I.S." and most recent in 2007, "The Closer".
 
Along with her career as an actress she also used her talent to teach acting at USC and also served as a faculty member at the American Film Institute. 
 
She married a total of three times throughout her lifetime.  First to James Lipton from 1954 through 1959.  She then married Dennis de Brito in 1959 and they had one child together before the marriage came to an end in 1963.  Her third husband was Michael Dewell who she married in 1967 however by 1993, another marriage came to an end.    
 
Nina Foch passed away in Los Angeles, California on December 5th, 2008 after suffering from complications due to a blood disorder known as myelodysplasia. 

 
Filmography

2007   The Closer

2005-2006  NCIS

2004   Back When We Were Grownups

2003   How to Deal 

2002   Pumpkin

2000   Bull 

2000   Just Shoot Me! 

1999   Family Blessings 

1999   Dharma & Greg

1998   Shadow of Doubt 

1998   Hush

1997   'Til There Was You 

1996   It's My Party 

1994   Alien Nation: Dark Horizon 

1991-1994  Murder, She Wrote 

1994   Missing Persons 

1993   Morning Glory 

1993   Sliver 

1993   Tales of the City 

1992   The Sands of Time

1992   Reasonable Doubts 

1992   In the Arms of a Killer 

1990   Hunter

1990   L.A. Law

1990   Room for Romance

1989   Skin Deep

1988   War and Remembrance 

1988   Outback Bound

1988   Dixie Lanes 

1986   The New Mike Hammer

1986   Comedy Factory 

1986   Nomads 

1985   Shadow Chasers 

1984   Trapper John, M.D.

1981   Rich and Famous

1979   Lou Grant

1979   Ebony, Ivory and Jade 

1978   Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

1978   Child of Glass 

1978   Jennifer 

1977   McMillan & Wife

1976   The Great Houdini

1973-1976  Barnaby Jones

1975   Mahogany

1975   Kolchak: The Night Stalker 

1974   The ABC Afternoon Playbreak

1974   Salty

1974   The Magician 

1973   Salty 

1973   Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law 

1973   Wide World Mystery

1973   The Brian Keith Show

1973   Hawaii Five-O 

1968-1973  Mod Squad 

1973   Female Artillery 

1972   The Scarecrow 

1971   Such Good Friends 

1971   Men at Law 

1971   That Girl 

1968-1970  The Name of the Game

1970   McCloud

1970   To Rome with Love

1970   The F.B.I.

1970   Paris 7000 

1969   Gidget Grows Up 

1969   Gunsmoke

1969   The Wild Wild West

1968   Prescription: Murder 

1967   Bonanza

1967   I Spy 

1966-1967  Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre 

1966   The Long, Hot Summer 

1966   A Man Called Shenandoah 

1965   Combat!

1965   Dr. Kildare

1964   Mr. Broadway 

1964   Burke's Law 

1961-1964  Route 66 

1963   The Outer Limits 

1963   The Greatest Show on Earth 

1963   Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963   Arrest and Trial 

1963   Sam Benedict 

1963   The Virginian 

1961-1962  Naked City 

1962   Rebecca 

1953-1962  G.E. True Theater 

1962   The Dick Powell Theatre

1962   Bus Stop 

1961   Checkmate

1961   Shirley Temple Theatre 

1961   The Americans 

1954-1960  The United States Steel Hour 

1960   Spartacus

1960   Moment of Fear 

1960   Play of the Week 

1960   Cash McCall 

1955-1959  The Loretta Young Show

1959   Rawhide 

1959   The Thin Man 

1959   Ten Little Indians

1956-1958  Playhouse 90 

1958   Pursuit 

1952-1958  Studio One in Hollywood

1958   Matinee Theatre

1957   Wagon Train 

1955-1957  Climax! 

1957   Kraft Theatre 

1957   The Alcoa Hour 

1956   Three Brave Men 

1956   The Ten Commandments

1955-1956  Playwrights '56

1956   The 20th Century-Fox Hour

1955   Illegal

1955   You're Never Too Young

1955   The Colgate Comedy Hour

1954   Producers' Showcase

1954   Four Guns to the Border

1953-1954  Danger

1949-1954  Suspense 

1954   Justice

1954   Executive Suite 

1953   Your Show of Shows 

1953   The Philip Morris Playhouse 

1953   Fast Company

1953   Sombrero 

1950-1953  Armstrong Circle Theatre 

1953   Hollywood Opening Night 

1950-1952  Lux Video Theatre 

1952   The Gulf Playhouse

1952   Scaramouche

1952   Young Man with Ideas 

1951-1952  Pulitzer Prize Playhouse

1952   Tales of Tomorrow 

1952   Schlitz Playhouse

1952   Chesterfield Presents 

1951-1952  Lights Out 

1951   An American in Paris 

1951   St. Benny the Dip 

1951   Somerset Maugham TV Theatre 

1951   Cameo Theatre

1951   Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre

1951   Nash Airflyte Theatre

1951   Two Girls Named Smith

1949   The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre

1949   The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse

1949   Johnny Allegro

1949   The Undercover Man 

1948   The Dark Past 

1947   The Guilt of Janet Ames

1947   Johnny O'Clock

1945   Prison Ship 

1945   My Name Is Julia Ross

1945   A Thousand and One Nights 

1945   Boston Blackie's Rendezvous 

1945   Escape in the Fog 

1945   I Love a Mystery 

1945   A Song to Remember 

1944   She's a Sweetheart

1944   Strange Affair 

1944   Cry of the Werewolf 

1944   Shadows in the Night 

1944   She's a Soldier Too 

1944   Nine Girls 

1944   The Return of the Vampire 

1943   Wagon Wheels West