Nina Foch was Oscar nominee, acting teacher
LOS ANGELES — Nina Foch, the Dutch-born actress who often played cool, calculating women in films, theater and television and was a respected coach of aspiring actors and directors, has died. She was 84.
Foch died Friday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She became ill last week while teaching at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Foch had taught at the school for 40 years.
She made her movie debut in 1943’s “Wagon Wheels West” and was nominated for an Academy Award for supporting actress for “Executive Suite” in 1955.
Other film credits included “The Ten Commandments,” “Spartacus,” “Rich and Famous” and “Sliver.”
Garland was in ’50s cult hits and ‘My Three Sons’
LOS ANGELES — Beverly Garland, the B-movie actress who starred in 1950s cult hits such as “Swamp Women” and “Not of This Earth” and who went on to play Fred MacMurray’s TV wife on “My Three Sons,” has died. She was 82.
Garland died Friday at her Hollywood Hills home.
Garland made her film debut in the 1950 noir classic “D.O.A.,” launching a 50-year career that included 40 movies and dozens of television shows.
She gained cult status for playing gutsy women in low-budget exploitation films such as “The Alligator People” and a number of Roger Corman movies including “Gunslinger,” “It Conquered the World” and “Naked Paradise.”
She went on to be cast in “My Three Sons” as the second wife of MacMurray’s widower Steve Douglas during the last three seasons of the popular series that aired from 1960 to 1972.
Associated Press
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