Nina Consuelo Maud (Fock) Foch (1924 - 2008)

Born 20 Apr 1924 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Wife of Louis James Lipton — married 1954 (to 1959) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Died 5 Dec 2008 at age 84 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

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Biography

Nina Consuelo Maud (Fock) Foch is Notable.

Nina Foch was a Dutch-American actress whose career spanned six decades, consisting of over 50 feature films and over 100 television appearances.

After signing a contract with Columbia Pictures at age 19, Foch became a regular in the studio's horror pictures and films noir before establishing herself as a leading lady in the mid-1940s through the 1950s, often playing roles as cool, aloof sophisticates.

She is perhaps best known for her roles in An American in Paris (1951); Robert Wise's Executive Suite (1954), which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress; Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956); and Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960).

Foch also worked extensively in television from 1951 until 2007. In 1968, Foch portrayed the victim in the first of Peter Falk's "Columbo" films. She played Mrs. Victoria Mallard, mother of Dr. Donald Mallard, on NCIS from 2005 to 2006.

In addition to acting, Foch taught drama at the American Film Institute and at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where she was a faculty member for over 40 years until her death in 2008.

Nina Foch was born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, to American actress and singer Consuelo Flowerton and Dutch classical music conductor Dirk Fock. Her parents divorced when she was a toddler, and her mother and she moved to the United States, settling in New York City.

Nina was married three times:

1. James Lipton,
2. Dennis de Brito
3. Michael Dewell

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 14 June 2022, 16:40), entry for Nina Consuelo Maud Fock (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LSMH-Q1Z ); contributed by various users.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32004654/nina-foch

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Foch