Loretta SwitFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: Portrait of Death

Synopsis: A metal sculpture created by artist Kim Mitchell (Loretta Swit) proves quite versatile when it used as a murder weapon. The victim is Philip Jovi (Edward Hibbert), an art gallery owner with whom Kim did not see eye-to-eye. Fortunately for Kim, her friend Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is on hand to Read More

Hell Hath No Fury

Synopsis: Suburban housewife Barbara Eden is the prime suspect when her husband is murdered. Shortly afterward, Eden's best friend turns up dead-and this time she's arrested. Now someone is trying to bump off Eden's daughter. It's all the handiwork of an old college rival, who believes that Eden stole her Read More

A Killer Among Friends

Actors: Patty Duke, Loretta Swit, Margaret Welsh, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Angie Rae McKinney

Synopsis: Based on actual events, this drama offers a chilling look at the lengths some youths will go in order to feel loved. Though devastated by the brutal slaying of her daughter Jenny (Tiffani-Amber Thiesson), kind-hearted mother Jean Monroe (Patty Duke) allows Jenny's troubled best friend Ellen (Margaret Welsh Read More

My Dad Can't Be Crazy, Can He?

Actors: Loretta Swit, Wil Wheaton, Don Murray

Whoops Apocalypse

Actors: Loretta Swit, Peter Cook, Rik Mayall, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Tipping the scales on the Monty Python-esque side of broad comedy, this outrageous and classically British farce is a series of episodes involving the U.S., a small Caribbean nation, the British government, and the military. The American president is a former clown who dies after asking someone to Read More

14 Going on 30

Actors: Daphne Ashbrook, Adam Carl, Rick Rossovich

Synopsis: 14 Going on 30 starts out like Candida and ends up like Back to the Future. 14-year-old Danny O'Neill (Gabey Olds), carrying a torch for his teacher, Peggy Noble (Daphne Ashbrook), can only suffer in silence as Peggy plans to marry brutish gym instructor "Jackjaw" Kelton (Rick Rossovich). With the Read More

Korean War: The Untold Story

Synopsis: This documentary looks at America's first "undeclared" war, and includes stories from the courageous survivors who fought in Korea, marking the 35th anniversary of the armistice. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Synopsis: Local bullies find themselves the recipients of a Christmas miracle when they perform in the Christmas pageant. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Loretta Swit

Synopsis: The real-life Mel Fisher was considered a mercenary by some, a visionary by others. Whatever the case, Fisher was a famous treasure hunter, who spent nearly decades searching for a Spanish Galleon which sank off the Florida Keys in the 17th century. Against all odds, Fisher and his crew were able Read More

Miracle at Moreaux

Synopsis: Loretta Swit stars as a French nun in the made-for-television Miracle at Moreaux. The time is the early 1940s, at the height of the Nazi occupation of France. At the risk of her own life, Loretta shelters three Jewish children in her Catholic schoolroom. Things become even riskier when the three Read More

Beer

Actors: Loretta Swit, Rip Torn, Kenneth Mars, David Alan Grier, William Russ

Synopsis: The self-aggrandizing world of Madison Avenue advertising is the subject of this clichéd, sexist satire that features a cynical ad executive (Loretta Swit) and her minions who choose three regular Joes to represent the Norbecker Beer company in a new ad campaign. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Read More

The Execution

Synopsis: Five Holocaust survivors conspire to have revenge upon the Nazi doctor who tormented them in this taut made-for-TV drama. All five are women living in Los Angeles and all have vividly painful memories of the atrocities he performed upon them. The memories come flooding back when they find him Read More

The Kermit & Piggy Story

Synopsis: Made for video, The Kermit & Piggy Story charts the course of America's most unlikely romantic couple. Breathes there anyone within reach of a TV who doesn't know all about Kermit The Frog and Miss Piggy, stars of TV's The Muppet Show and any number of theatrical-movie sequels? Within its 57 Read More

Rock Music with the Muppets

Synopsis: Rock to the sounds of the Muppets and their special musical guests as they perform titles such as "Rock Around the Clock," "Call Me," "Rainbow Connection" and "Disco Frog." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

First Affair

Actors: Melissa Sue Anderson, Loretta Swit, Joel Higgins

Synopsis: The First Affair of the title is the one conducted by naïve but nubile college freshman Toby King (Melissa Sue Anderson). Struck by the girl's sense of responsibility, professor Jane Simon (Loretta Swit) hires Toby as a baby-sitter. Soon afterwards, however, Jane's susceptible husband Greg (Joel Higgins Read More

Fire on the Mountain

Synopsis: The husband of a college professor has an affair with a pretty college coed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell & Amen

Synopsis: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen was the instant-classic final installment of the long-running TV series M*A*S*H. After nearly three bloody years of combat in Korea (and 11 years' worth of TV time!), a truce has been declared and the 4077th is going home. News of the cease-fire affects different people Read More

Games Mother Never Taught You

Actors: Loretta Swit, Edward Grover, Eileen Heckart

Synopsis: Loretta Swit was still appearing on a weekly basis in MASH when she starred in the made-for-TV Games Mother Never Taught You. She plays Laura Bentells, the first female executive in a traditionally "good ole boy" office. Refusing to be patronized or disregarded, Laura quickly learns the ropes of Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 11

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: As the 11th season of M*A*S*H* got under way in the fall of 1982, everyone involved with the series knew it would be their last (the program had already lasted eight years longer than the actual Korean War!) Looking back, the cast and crew could take pride in the series' many accomplishments, not Read More

The Kid From Nowhere

Synopsis: The Kid From Nowhere is built around the talents of Ricky Wittman, a remarkable young actor afflicted with Down's Syndrome who appeared in several TV programs during the early 1980s. Judy Farrell's script traces the efforts of a California mother (Susan Saint James) to curb the sudden energy Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 10

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Its ninth season shortened to a mere 20 episodes thanks to a Hollywood writers' strike, M*A*S*H returned to a full 24-episode manifest for its tenth season, which began in October of 1981. With the defection of series regular Gary Burghoff two seasons earlier, the starring-cast lineup was now Read More

S.O.B.

Actors: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Larry Hagman, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In this biting comedy satirizing Hollywood cynicism from writer-director Blake Edwards, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) is a motion picture director whose career is on the skids. Having just completed a family musical that is sure to be a $30 million flop, Felix knows that his days are numbered Read More

Cagney and Lacey

Actors: Tyne Daly, Loretta Swit

Synopsis: This pilot film for the TV detective series Cagney and Lacey stars Loretta Swit as Chris Cagney and Tyne Daly as Mary Beth Lacey. C and L are NYPD undercover officers, spending their first week on the job disguised as hookers. It's all part of a plan to flush out the person who's been going around Read More

The Love Tapes

Synopsis: This pilot film for an unsold TV series was originally titled They're Playing Our Tape. Michael Constantine stars as Frank Yost, the avuncular head of a videotape dating services called "Good Possibilities." Among Yost's clients is recently divorced executive David Franklin (Martin Balsam), single Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 09

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: After a late start thanks to a Hollywood writer's strike, M*A*S*H launched its ninth season on November 17, 1980. With the past defections of Wayne Rogers, Maclean Stevenson, Larry Linville and Gary Burghoff, Alan Alda (as Hawkeye), Loretta Swit (as Margaret Houlihan), Jamie Farr (as Klinger) and Read More

Valentine

Synopsis: Valentine stars Mary Martin, making her TV movie debut as a septuagenarian, terminally ill widow. She falls in love with Jack Albertson, a 70 year old charmer with a history of breaking female hearts. Casting propriety to the four winds, Martin and Albertson shack up together, then take a Read More

Mirror, Mirror

Synopsis: The miracle of plastic surgery is the unifying factor for this made-for-TV movie. Three women, all "of a certain age," are having problems with the men in their life. Rich widow Millie Gorman (Janet Leigh) is convinced that her sex appeal has waned along with her looks and youth; bored housewife Read More

Friendships, Secrets and Lies

Synopsis: Based on Babs H. Deal's novel The Walls Came Tumbling Down, Friendships, Secrets and Lies is about...just what the title says it's about. An old college building is bulldozed, revealing the skeleton of a newborn baby stuffed in the air shaft. Forensic tests prove that the infant died twenty years Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 08

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season eight of M*A*S*H was marked by the last of the series' major regular-cast defections. As the quietly resourceful and eerily clairvoyant company clerk, Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, Gary Burghoff had been the only actor from the 1970 movie version of M*A*S*H* to carry over his role into the Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 07

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Now in its seventh season on the air, the irreverent military comedy series M*A*S*H continued to roll along like a well-oiled machine. The most significant change during season six, the introduction of the insufferable but brilliant surgeon Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester (David Ogden Stiers), had Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 06

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season six of M*A*S*H was noteworthy for yet another defection from its regular-cast ranks. Long dissatisfied with the artistic limitations of the role of obnoxious Major Frank Burns, actor Larry Linville followed the lead of his former M*A*S*H colleagues Wayne Rogers and Maclean Stevenson by Read More

The Hostage Heart

Synopsis: When a billionaire checks into the hospital for a heart operation, he becomes the object of a massive terrorist attack, as they hold him for $10 million ransom. Complicating the problem is his absolute obsession with his privacy, a la Howard Hughes. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 05

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Although M*A*S*H entered its fifth season with the cast from season four intact--including relative newcomers Mike Farrell as B.J. Hunnicut and Harry Morgan as Col. Sherman Potter--the production roster was short one significant name. Producer and co-creator Larry Gelbart had exited the series at Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 04

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Everybody knew that Maclean Stevenson would not return to M*A*S*H when the series inaugurated its fourth season in the fall of 1975; after all, Stevenson's character, Col. Henry Blake, had been abruptly killed off at the end of season three, so any sort of return was out of the question. It did Read More

Race with the Devil

Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: This novel fusion of car-chase film and spooky horror became a surprise box-office hit in 1975. The story begins with car enthusiasts Frank (Warren Oates) and Roger (Peter Fonda) taking their wives, Kelly (Lara Parker) and Alice (Loretta Swit), on a vacation in a recreational vehicle. Their Read More

The Last Day

Synopsis: In this western, a retired gunslinger must defend his town against the nefarious Dalton gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Freebie and the Bean

Actors: Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Jack Kruschen, Mike Kellin

Synopsis: Freebie (James Caan) and the Bean (Alan Arkin) are a pair of San Francisco cops. Red Meyers (Jack Kruschen) is the mobster whom Freebie and the Bean would like to see behind bars -- or, failing that, six feet under. Nothing stands in the way of the cops' pursuit of Meyers, meaning that private Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 03

Actors: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: With an ever-increasing viewership and three Emmy awards to its credit, M*A*S*H had no trouble easing into a third successful season in the fall of 1974. Not wishing to tinker with the success, the series' producers retained all of the regular characters from previous years--Hawkeye (Alan Alda) Read More

Ironside: Ollinger's Last Case

Synopsis: After receiving a strange, plaintive phone call from his old friend and colleague Ted Ollinger, Ironside (Raymond Burr) sends his assistant Ed Brown (Don Galloway) to the small town of Grant Bay to investigate. Upon arrival, Ed finds that Ollinger has disappeared, and that most of the local Read More

Shirts / Skins

Synopsis: In this comedy, some clever amateur basketball players create an interesting and highly rewarding variation of the popular sport. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 02

Actors: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Although M*A*S*H had played to less than spectacular ratings during its initial season, there was enough staunch viewer support to warrant a renewal for a second season in the fall of 1973. CBS acknowledged this small but significant upsurge in ratings by moving the series from its "graveyard" Read More

Deadhead Miles

Actors: Alan Arkin, Paul Benedict, Hector Elizondo, Oliver Clark, Charles Durning

Synopsis: One of Terrence Malick's early screenwriting efforts, this loosely-structured road movie finds a questionably sane long-distance trucker named Cooper (Alan Arkin) winding his way through the heart of America. An employee of a questionable hauling outfit who has been assigned to drive a newly Read More

Sam Cade

Actors: Glenn Ford, Edgar Buchanan, Ed Asner, Shelley Fabares, Ed Flanders

Synopsis: Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County, the early '70s series starring Glenn Ford as a modern-day sheriff in Madrid County, CA. In the first half, directed by Marvin Chomsky, Cade finds himself targeted for assassination when he's scheduled to Read More

Stand up and Be Counted

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: This gag-filled movie makes a stab at examining the women's liberation movement but never quite gets there. The effects of the movement are shown through a series of comic and romantic episodes between men and women. The story is loosely tied together as the research of Sheila Hammond (Jacqueline Bisset Read More

Bonanza: A Visit to Upright

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Alan Oppenheimer

Synopsis: Three of the Cartwright men-Joe, Hoss and Jamie-head to the town of Upright to sell a rundown saloon. They decide to hold onto the property when it develops that a fortune in gold might be hidden on the premises. The boys' insistence upon retaining the saloon messes up Ben's business deal with Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 01

Actors: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: One of the most famous and successful sitcoms of all time, M*A*S*H was based on the 1970 Robert Altman theatrical film of the same name--which, in turn, was inspired by an autobiographical novel by a former Army doctor, writing pseudonymously as Richard Hooker. Although set during the Korean War Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Homecoming

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In a change-of-pace Mission:Impossible episode, Jim Phelps makes a sentimental journey to his rural home town. Even here, however, Phelps finds himself waist-deep in a danger, as a series of unexplained murders terrorizes the community. Summoning the aid of his fellow IMF agents, Phelps conducts Read More

Audubon Video: On the Edge of Extinction: Panthers and Cheetahs

Synopsis: This film is part of an Audubon nature series featuring animals on the endangered species list. This volume looks at two of the world's largest cats: the panther and the cheetah. The panther is a name applied to black leopards. Native to Africa and Asia, they are solitary and stalk the forests for Read More

Audubon Video: The Mysterious Black-Footed Ferret

Synopsis: This nature video goes to the remote country in Wyoming to see the black-footed ferret. The black-footed ferret is a North American weasel that has yellow and brown markings, a black mask, and black feet. It is a cousin of the European polecat. The once-prevalent black-footed ferret is currently Read More