Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on seminal TV comedy "MASH," died Friday at her home in New York City. She was 87.

Swit died peacefully at her home in New York just after midnight on Friday, May 30, of suspected natural causes, according to a police report cited by her longtime publicist, Harlan Boll.

Loretta Swit, best known for her role as Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on the classic TV show M*A*S*H, has passed away. She died away at her New York City home on Friday, according to her ...