Her career was over six decades long, and she remained one of the most noted actresses until her retirement in 2007. Foch then moved to New York along with her mother and began studying piano, painting, and sculpture. Sadly, she died on December 5, 2008, at the age of 84. 57 0 obj <>stream This rare disorder involves a disruption in blood cell production. Believe it or not, teaching is the most rewarding thing I do, Foch told United Press International in 1994. On Broadway, I was from Hollywood; in Hollywood, I was from Broadway. Foch had taught at the school for 40 years. In 1967, she made her theatrical directorial debut with a Broadway production of Ways and Means, a comedy by Nol Coward. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. On August 15, 2020, she was honored with a day of her filmography during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars. Nothing underscored this problem better than her standard featured parts in The Ten Commandments (1956) and Spartacus (1960).In later years, she was seen less and less, but became a widely respected acting teacher in the Los Angeles area (notably USC) and has directed on stage. Foch died Friday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia, her son, Dr. Dirk De Brito, told the Los Angeles Times. . In America, I've been a European. She directed Ways and Means, a short play by Nol Coward, as part of Tonight at 8:30, which had a short Broadway run in 1967. Her son, Dr. Dirk De. [12], In 1951, Foch appeared with Gene Kelly in the musical An American in Paris, which was awarded the Best Picture Oscar that year. Foch established herself as a dramatic actress in the late 1940s, often playing cool, aloof sophisticates.[1]. Foch made her Broadway debut in the 1947 production of John Loves Mary, playing the titular Mary. In 1970, James Lipton and Kedaki Turner were married. In addition, Nina was a drama teacher at the American Film Institute and at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. She was always brutally frank, she demanded one go the extra mile, and she wouldn't allow one to get away with a thing. Attention: This site does not support the current version of your web browser. Maud was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. She earned an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress in Executive Suite (1954). [23]. It has been the most successful thing I've done in my life. Ninas maternal grandmother was Maud/Maude Mary Valot (the daughter of Edward/Philip Valot and Sarah MacDonald). With that, she trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and became an enthusiastic exponent of the "Method" technique after studying with acting gurus Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler.Revising her last name to a classier sounding "Foch", Nina appeared briefly on the regional stage before earning a starlet contract with Columbia at age 19. She also studied Method acting with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. April 20, 1924 December 4, 2008 84 y.o. [20] Those who studied with her include Rod Stewart, Julie Andrews,[21] John Ritter (with whom she co-starred in Skin Deep), Amy Heckerling, Randal Kleiser, Edward Zwick, Ron Underwood,[22] and Marshall Herskovitz. Now if I'd been a little more ambitious and not so sure I was nothing, the unattractive daughter of a beautiful woman and a distinguished man, I could have fought harder, and I would have gotten further. Foch's parents divorced when she was a toddler. She played Marie Antoinette in Scaramouche (1952), and the manipulative Helena Glabrus in Spartacus (1960). Thats my contribution.. Nina Foch ( / f / FOSH; born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; April 20, 1924 - December 5, 2008) was a Dutch-born American actress who later became an instructor. Nina Foch was born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands, on April 20, 1924, to classical music conductor Dirk Forch and Consuelo Flowerton (American actress). Brooks Atkinson, writing in The New York Times, called her an especially attractive young lady with a gift for sincerity.. In 1980, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her guest role on an episode of Lou Grant. At the age of 84,Nina Foch died atthe Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on 5th December 2008. . This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Official Sites, In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by, Played the first person whose murder was investigated by the TV detective Lt. Columbo; killed in the pilot episode/TV movie. Nina had a child with her former husband Dennis de Brito. Her film credits include A Song to Remember (1945), An American in Paris (1951), Scaramouche (1952) and The Ten Commandments (1956). Dirk is a doctor, according to Fochs obituary, where he shared the cause of his mothers death. Johannes was the son of Felix Doffegnies and Wilhelmina Catharina Dijckmeester. We worked six days a week. That's my contribution. Place of Death: Westwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Its only 65 minutes, but you want to look at her the whole time.. Foch also continued to work as an instructor at USC during this period, and also worked as an independent script-breakdown consultant for many Hollywood directors. *Dutch (father) Nobody would let me, because I was a woman. Her father was the renowned Dutch composer-conductor Dirk Fock; her mother was actress Consuelo Flowerton. Her father was the renowned Dutch composer-conductor Dirk Fock; her mother was actress Consuelo Flowerton. She became ill last week while teaching at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Her only child was a son, Dr. Dirk De Brito (born 1960), by her second husband Dennis De Brito. Her parents divorced while she was a toddler and she and her mother moved to New York where Nina was encouraged to indulge in her creative and artistic leanings. rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; [16] Andrews recalled of Foch: "She was a tough teacher, but in the best sense. A service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She moved to New York City, New York, with her mother during her early childhood. Foch then moved to New York along with her mother and began studying piano, painting, and sculpture. She died of complications from long-term myelodysplasia, a blood disorder, according to her son, Dr. Dirk De Brito. My father was a well-known orchestra conductor, and. I wasn't very happy at Columbia. In 1970, James Lipton and Kedaki Turner were married.. Hollywood actress turned drama teacher Nina Foch has passed away at the age of 84, her son has announced. Cornelis was born in Amsterdam, the son of Abraham Fock and Alida Johanna van Heekeren. Directing had always interested her, and she was said to have been an uncredited assistant director and dialogue consultant on The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), set in Amsterdam. - IMDb Mini Biography By: . Further, Foch won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress by Special Jury Prize in 1954AmericanMetro-Goldwyn-Mayerdrama film, Executive Suite. [on many roles of hers] Real tough broads Poor me, I'm a nice lady, with children and a home, but I play castrating broads. She was 84. Shes not a dame, like Gloria Grahame. Foch died Friday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia, her son, Dr. Dirk De Brito, told the Los Angeles Times. Maria Anne was the daughter of Dirk Uyttenhooven and Jacoba . GettyEarl Holliman, Gigi Perreau, Army Archerd, Pat Crowley, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Osborne, Lori Nelson, Nolan Miller and Nina Foch attend the AMPAS Centennial Celebration for Barbara Stanwyck on May 16, 2007. What it meant was what happens in life is often the opposite of what you think would happen, so the way you play a scene is often the opposite of the way you would think. Its only 65 minutes, but you want to look at her the whole time.. friends and family, including son Dirk de Brito. Foch taught two classes a week at USC, where her course was a requirement in a master of fine arts program. Nina ended up living with her mother. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Ninas paternal grandfather was Dirk Fock (the son of Cornelis Fock and Maria Anne Uyttenhooven). 1959 She was a panelist on several TV quiz shows, worked as George Stevens' assistant director for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and directed plays. She became ill. I've always been an outsider. It is the theater's great loss not to have seen more of Nina Foch, . She had a wonderful phrase that used to torment us idiosyncratic contrapuntal juxtaposition, he recalled Friday. Some of her notables works include An American in Paris, The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, and Executive Suite. rcel.src = "//trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=76341&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); Seating is unreserved, and RSVPs (to be . Her parents were separated when she was a child. She had become ill the day before, while teaching her course at USC. Hollywood actress turned drama teacher Nina Foch has passed away at the age of 84, her son has announced. Her debut in Bela Lugosi's The Return of the Vampire (1943) was followed by featured roles in other more or less modest efforts. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Robert Sieger Nina Foch (/f/ FOSH; . [9] This was followed with a role in the biopic A Song to Remember (1945), the drama I Love a Mystery (1945); and a string of films noir, including Escape in the Fog (1945), in which she starred as a woman who has a premonition of her kidnapping. Nina Foch was married thrice in her life. Ray Hamel. The event is open to the public. I should have been directing all along, that I should have been doing. Her second husband isScreenwriter,Dennis de Brito, who was nominated forWriters Guild of America Award for Television: Daytime Serials. Since the 1960s, she has been an acting teacher for USC and the American Film Institute. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X42F-CFL In the early 1970s, she guest-starred on ABC's That Girl in the fifth-season episode, That Script, and NBC's The Brian Keith Show. Nina Foch Now Nancy Foch passed away in 2008, at the age of 84. Nina Foch, the Dutch-born actress who epitomized the cool, aloof blond sophisticate in films and on television for six decades while thriving as an acting teacher, died on Friday in Los. She so influenced us in our way of looking at material, directing, even writing.. [7], After signing a contract with Columbia Pictures at age 19, Foch made her feature film debut in the studio's horror picture The Return of the Vampire (1943) with Bela Lugosi,[8] subsequently appearing in Columbia's Cry of the Werewolf the next year. Nina Foch, a widely respected lecturer at USC for the last 40 years and a veteran actress, whose credits stretch back to the golden age of Hollywood film noir, passed away Friday December 5. [7][16], She was subsequently cast as the first murder victim of the Columbo mystery series starring Peter Falk, appearing in the pilot movie, Prescription: Murder (1968), with Gene Barry as her husband, a homicidal psychiatrist. Clip is 2 of 3 from the episode " Little Girl Blue". Besides, she has also made radio appearances inCavalcade of America, Theatre Guild on the Air, Broadway Playhouse, and others. http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e325/e008117346.jpg. She had an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for herExecutive Suitein 1954. Herskovitz, who met Zwick in Fochs class at AFI in the 1970s, said her philosophy was difficult to boil down because it stemmed from her insights into how people behave and think and what they believe. Her film credits include A Song to Remember (1945), An American in Paris (1951), Scaramouche (1952) and The Ten Commandments (1956). Publicity Listings Foch then exchanged vows with James Lipton on 12 June 1954. Foch had taught at the school for 40 years. Her standout acting inspired a recent UCLA Film & Television Archive series celebrating Columbias noir girls of the 1940s. [on her father] He hated my mother sufficiently, my mother hated him. Nina was born with the unusually multi-ethnic name of Nina Consuelo Maud Fock, her father being the renowned Dutch composer and conductor Dirk Fock, and her mother the stage and silent film actress Consuelo Flowerton, who once worked in a Valentino movie. "[16], Foch was reportedly the inspiration for the character Nina, a washed-up actress teaching acting classes from a seedy motel, in Rufus Butler Seder's film Screamplay. She also appeared as Frannie Halcyon in the TV miniseries Tales of the City (1993). Elaine Woo is a Los Angeles native who has written for her hometown paper since 1983. She was 84. She had a point of view that was so profound and so provocative that it forced you to really reassess not just your thoughts about filmmaking but your whole approach to life and relationships, he said. Her Hollywood career included stints as an assistant director on such films as The Diary of Anne Frank. Nina Foch, a widely respected lecturer at USC for the last 40 years and a veteran actress, whose credits stretch back to the golden age of Hollywood film noir, passed away Friday December 5. Married Michael Dewell, October 31, 1967 (divorced). *English, French, Scottish (mother). Foch and her mother then went to New York, where she studied piano, painting, and sculpture. rcds.appendChild(rcel); . Born in the Netherlands in 1924, the statuesque blonde never achieved star status and became a respected teacher in later life. She left The Times in 2015. Believe it or not, teaching is the most rewarding thing I do, Foch told United Press International in 1994. . She divorced her third husband, stage producer Michael Dewell, in 1993. You know what Einstein said? In 1996 she and the actress Deborah Raffin were co-directors of Family Blessings, a television movie based on a LaVyrle Spencer novel. She fell sick while she was teaching at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. They were divorced in 1993, a year Foch was married three times. During this time, she was also a regular in John Houseman's CBS Playhouse 90 television series. Father: Dirk Foch Mother: Consuelo (Flowerton . [14] The same year Executive Suite was released, Foch married her first husband, actor James Lipton; their marriage spanned five years before ending in divorce in 1959. By that time, she had found new career purpose in teaching and coaching actors and directors. She so influenced us in our way of looking at material, directing, even writing.. Join the community of family history enthusiasts and FamilySearch employees to ask questions and discuss potential product enhancements. And its Nina that brings it alive. 9mF%o%5CM]I~. Movies. Her father, Dirk Fock, an orchestral conductor, moved to New York in 1928. [15] The same year, she married television writer Dennis de Brito, with whom she gave birth to one son, Dirk. He died in Locarno, Switzerland on May 24, 1973. Tuner confirmed her husbands passing after he retired fromInside the Actors Studioin 2018. rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); Among her students were directors Randal Kleiser, Edward Zwick, and Amy Heckerling, and performer Julie Andrews. In her final years, Foch appeared on the television series Just Shoot Me, Bull, Dharma & Greg, and NCIS, the latter portraying Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard's elderly mother. Thrice married and divorced, she is survived by three grandchildren, in addition to her son. Services were pending. It has been the most successful thing Ive done in my life.. Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1942. In 1963, she appeared on the NBC game show Your First Impression. Dies, From the Archives: Gene Kelly Dies; Legendary Dancer Was 83. Theyve been married ever since. She changed her name to Foch when her movie career began in 1941 at Warner Bros. She worked under contract at several major studios, including Columbia, MGM, Universal, 20th Century Fox and United Artists. She had a wonderful phrase that used to torment us -- idiosyncratic contrapuntal juxtaposition, he recalled Friday. Discover your ancestry - search Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, census records, immigration lists and other records - all in one family search! The studio also handed her the Oscar-nominated role of the lonely but altruistic executive secretary in the all-star ensemble drama Executive Suite (1954). There was no turn-around time back then, so you'd work into the evening, go home for six hours and then come back to work again. As film roles became harder to find, Foch proved to be versatile in many areas. You can see a photo of Lipton and Foch together in 1955 here. Herskovitz, who met Zwick in Fochs class at AFI in the 1970s, said her philosophy was difficult to boil down because it stemmed from her insights into how people behave and think and what they believe. Recent recurring stints on TV in such shows as "Murder, She Wrote", "Bull", and "NCIS" confirm that she remained active. According to wire service reports, she. She concurrently embarked on a stage career, making her Broadway debut as the titular Mary in 1947's John Loves Mary. Her son, Dirk De Brito, told the Los Angeles Times that she became ill last week while teaching at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. students, friends and family members, including son Dirk de Brito. Julia Ross is a great, Hitchcockian thriller. Her second (1959-63) was Dennis de Brito, a television writer, with whom she had her son. Ninas maternal grandfather was named Alexander J. Flowerton. Would love your thoughts, please comment. She was a senior faculty member at the American Film Institute. She became a regular horror picture actress, then established herself as a leading lady. All Rights Reserved. 1 child, Dirk de Brito. Henderson's Film Industries have spent the last 13 years interviewing some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Her only child was a son, Dr. Dirk De Brito (born 1960), by her second husband Dennis De Brito. But Ms. Foch (pronounced fosh) received her highest acting accolades for a lesser-known film, Executive Suite (1954), a drama about corporate power. Patricia Neal dies at 84; Oscar-winning actress found triumphs in a life of tragedies, From the Archives: Benjamin Spock, Baby Doctor for the Millions Dies, Tony Curtis dies at 85; actor was star of Some Like It Hot and Sweet Smell of Success, From the Archives: Mayor Who Reshaped L.A. %%EOF Nina Foch was born in Leiden, the Netherlands on April 20, 1924 and passed away in Los Angeles, on December 5, 2008, at 84. Im not exaggerating when I say that what she taught us comes up literally weekly in our careers. . In 1980, Foch was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her guest role as Mrs. Pope on the Lou Grant episode "Hollywood".[17]. "I love them and they love me," she once said of her students. She later moved to New York with her mother and enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. [7], In Spartacus (1960), starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, she played a woman who chooses gladiators to fight to the death in the ring simply for her entertainment. James Liptons Ex-Wife, Nina Foch: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Please review our privacy policy here: https://heavy.com/privacy-policy/, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. James Lipton and Nina Foch were married from 1954 to 1959. 56,514 people are reading stories on the site right now. Anyone can read what you share. She was affiliated with the University of Southern Californias film school for four decades and with the American Film Institutes film studies center in the 1970s. The Nina Foch Course for Filmmakers and Actors brings an experience that has been available only in the country's most select film schools to a wide audience. Ninas paternal grandmother was Wilhelmina Catharina Cornelia Doffegnies (the daughter of Johannes Joseph Doffegnies and Sara Maria Rookmaaker). She first tied the knot to American actor,Michael Dewell on 31 October 1967, and after twenty-sixyears, they divorced on 18 March 1993. C!wc|zC C fi5&{A,:J/$U%Vl.8bckcY [dV! Foch played a young woman who takes a job as secretary for a wealthy family and becomes ensnared in a plot to cover up a murder. Then I played on Broadway and became the toast of the town that year. Family Life She married three times and had a son named Dirk with her second husband, Dennis de Brito. Nina is this tall, cool drink of water. According to her son, Dr Dirk De Brito, she died on Friday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia. endstream endobj 21 0 obj <> endobj 22 0 obj <>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[248.6586 730.4461 310.2519 761.994]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[160.0243 658.8376 212.6039 666.8498]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[208.0971 552.176 246.6555 561.1897]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[379.8574 552.176 441.4507 561.1897]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[179.5539 540.1578 263.1806 549.1715]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[240.6464 528.1396 295.2291 537.1533]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[340.2974 528.1396 439.4476 537.1533]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[166.5341 496.0911 228.6282 505.1047]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[384.3642 464.0425 454.9712 473.0562]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[343.302 407.9575 412.4067 416.9712]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[149.0076 395.9393 194.0759 404.953]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[233.1351 395.9393 297.2322 404.953]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[278.7041 363.8907 394.8801 372.9044]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[225.1229 351.8726 310.2519 360.8862]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[206.0941 227.6844 310.7527 236.698]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[211.1017 183.6176 292.7253 192.6313]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[322.2701 183.6176 430.434 192.6313]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[164.0303 171.5994 222.1184 180.6131]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[298.2337 127.5326 352.3156 136.5463]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>><>/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[214.1062 115.5144 256.17 124.5281]/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>>]/Contents[26 0 R 27 0 R 28 0 R 29 0 R 30 0 R 31 0 R 32 0 R 33 0 R]/CropBox[0 0 595 842]/MediaBox[0 0 595 842]/Parent 18 0 R/Resources<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Type/Page>> endobj 23 0 obj <>stream A former concert pianist and painter, Foch made her film debut in 1943's Wagon Wheels West. She changed her name to Foch when her movie career began in 1941 at Warner Bros. She worked under contract at several major studios, including Columbia, MGM, Universal, 20th Century Fox and United Artists. Honorary chairman Los Angeles chapter American Cancer Society, 1970. . MGM utilized her in a supporting capacity for some of their films, notably the ritzy patron and paramour-in-waiting of artist Gene Kelly whom she loses to Leslie Caron in An American in Paris (1951). Nina Foch in 2003. 1. She had fallen ill last week while teaching at the . Her students have included accomplished directors, including Randal Kleiser, Amy Heckerling, Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. She covered public education and filled a variety of editing assignments before joining the dead beat news obituaries where she has produced artful pieces on celebrated local, national and international figures, including Norman Mailer, Julia Child and Rosa Parks. Foch began her career as an actress whose most memorable work was in the B-movie classic My Name Is Julia Ross (1945), directed by Joseph H. Lewis. [12] She subsequently starred in Stratford and Broadway productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1949) and King Lear (1950). FamilySearch Terms of Use (Updated 2021-09-27), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They were divorced in 1993, a year before his death. She was one of those few teachers who was truly life-changing, said Herskovitz, who with Zwick created and produced the critically acclaimed television shows thirtysomething, My So-Called Life and Once and Again.. Nina Foch, the Dutch-born actress who epitomized the cool, aloof blond sophisticate in films and on television for six decades while thriving as an acting teacher, died on Friday in Los Angeles. But I think the biggest thing I've done in life is teach. But I think the biggest thing Ive done in life is teach. [on her early B-movies] It's extraordinary how fast we made them. They divorced when Foch was a toddler. Shes really the reason we did these films, Andrea Alsberg, who curated the UCLA series, told The Times in October. Menu. You're not supposed to be happy, you're supposed to feel that you've achieved something. She signed with Columbia Pictures at 19. Nina Foch, a veteran actress from Hollywoods film noir era of the 1940s who became a widely respected acting coach and teacher of directors, died Friday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Dirk Fock studied, composed and conducted orchestral music in Europe, but made his American Debut as conductor with a specially assembled orchestra at Carnegie Hall on April 12, 1920; also conducted orchestral groups elsewhere in the U.S., and in Vienna. | Foch died December 5, 2008, of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Her parents were Dutch classical music conductor Dirk Fock, and Consuelo Flowerton, an American actress and singer. Foch gained widespread notice for her role as Milo Roberts in the musical film An American in Paris (1951); Robert Wise's drama Executive Suite (1954), which earned her the Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress; Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956); and Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960). She also offered the class for years at the American Film Institute. I was a pitiful child, an unloved child. Ms. Foch is probably best remembered by moviegoers as the rich, manipulative socialite who tries to buy Gene Kellys character, as well as his artwork, in Vincente Minnellis 1951 musical, An American in Paris. Or as Bithia, the pharaohs daughter, who finds and adopts the baby Moses in Cecil B. DeMilles 1956 epic, The Ten Commandments.. She had one child, a son, Dr. Dirk de Brito, who survived his mother. Robert Sieger, Other Works . [7] Another notable television role was as the Overseer Commander (or "Kleezantzun") in the first of the Alien Nation TV movies, Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994). According to her son, Dr Dirk De Brito, she died on Friday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia. She left The Times in 2015. She and her mother moved to the United States. [6] After graduating from the Lincoln School, Foch attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, studying method acting under Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. She was 84. Alexander is either from Hungary or British India. Foch was cremated by the Neptune Society of Sherman Oaks, California, and her ashes . Over time, people may feel fatigued, pale, have unusual bleeding, or experience frequent infections. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WKT-F1M Foch had one child: son Dirk de Brito. [4] Her parents divorced when she was a toddler, and she and her mother moved to the United States, settling in New York City. While Nina customarily lent poise and class to her on-camera roles in the late 1950s and in the 1960s, she seldom was given the chance to truly shine in the ensuing years. Foch appeared on Broadway, including the 1947 hit John Loves Mary. She briefly tried directing, serving as assistant director to George Stevens on The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), but turned to television acting when it became clear to her that the time was not ripe for a female director. The following year, she entered Hollywood with the American mystery film, Nine Girls as Alice Blake. Nina Foch was a Dutch and American actress. Nina Foch was born on April 20, 1924, in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands to cla s sical music conductor Dirk Forch (Dutch) and Consuelo Flowerton (American actress). 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