Louisa Moritz (born March 25, 1946) is a Cuban-American retired actress and lawyer.
Lovely, buxom and vivacious blonde bombshell Louisa Moritz was born as Louisa Castro in Havana, Cuba. Many members of Louisa’s family which include her father Luis, sister Aurora, and her older brother Rafael all have worked in the law profession. Moritz left Cuba and moved to New York City during the upheaval of the 1950s.
Louisa was inspired to change her last name from Castro to Moritz after seeing the St. Moritz Hotel in New York City. Moritz started her acting career in TV commercials in the late 60’s: She made her debut in a TV commercial for Ultra-Ban spray deodorant and won both a Clio Award and an Andy Award for her work as a student driver in a TV commercial for American Motors.
Louisa made her film debut in the lead role of young prostitute Carmela in The Man from O.R.G.Y. (1970). Perhaps best known to general audiences as the hooker Rose in the Oscar-winning classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), her most memorable roles include Sylvester Stallone’s airhead navigator Myra in the cult science fiction black comedy Death Race 2000 (1975), cheery prostitute Flora in the delightful Sixpack Annie (1975), Officer Gloria Whitey in Up in Smoke (1978), hilarious as the aggressively lascivious Carmela in the uproariously raunchy teen comedy hoot The Last American Virgin (1982), and ditsy kleptomaniac Bubbles in the terrifically trashy babes-behind-bars treat Chained Heat (1983).
Among the television programs Moritz has appeared on are The Leslie Uggams Show (1969), The Joe Namath Show (1969), Love, American Style (1969), Ironside (1967), Happy Days (1974), M*A*S*H (1972), Chico and the Man (1974), The Rockford Files (1974), The Incredible Hulk (1978) and The Associates (1979). Outside of acting, Louisa has sold real estate, sung a song she specifically wrote about host Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show,” and bought a hotel in Beverly Hills which she renamed the Beverly Hills St. Moritz.
Although often cast as the generic dumb blonde in many films and TV shows (a part which she has always played with great spirit and infectiously sweet good humor), Moritz in real life is the total radical opposite of this particular persona: She not only made the Deans List while studying for her law degree at the University of West Los Angeles, but also won the American Jurisprudence Bancroft Whitney Prize for Contracts as well.
Louisa Moritz now works as an attorney in Southern California.
ACCUSING BILL COSBY OF FORCE ORAL SEX.(2014)
Louisa Moritz an actress who played Rose in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and starred in the ’70s show “Love American Style” claims Bill Cosby stuck his penis in her mouth in her dressing room before an appearance on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show.”
68-year-old Louisa Moritz tells TMZ … she was at the NBC studios in New York in 1971, waiting in the green room for her appearance on the show. She says there was a knock at the door, and it was Cosby, who she says walked in and said he was impressed with her work and “implied that he was going to see to it that I will become a major star through his direction.”
Moritz — who also played a cop in Cheech and Chong’s “Up in Smoke” — says Cosby “suddenly approached me and took out his penis, which was now in the line of my face [she’s 5’0″] and pressed up against it.”
She goes on, “He took his hands and put them on the back of my head and forced his penis in my mouth, saying, ‘Have a taste of this. It will do you good in so many ways.'”
She says as Cosby walked out he turned and said, “Now you don’t want to upset me and the plans for your future, do you?”
Moritz says she never told anyone, until now. She says although the statute of limitations has run out, she intends to file a civil lawsuit against Cosby. (TMZ)
Selected filmography.
The Man from O.R.G.Y. (1970)
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
Fore Play (1975)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film) (1975)
Six Pack Annie (1975)
Cannonball (1976)
The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977)
Up in Smoke (1978)
The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
Cuba (1979).
Loose Shoes (1980)
New Year’s Evil (film) (1980)
Under the Rainbow (1981)
True Confessions (1981)
Lunch Wagon (1981)
The Last American Virgin (1982)
Chained Heat (1983)
Hot Chili (1985)
Galaxis (1995)
The Independent (2000)
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The Cuban History, Hollywood.
Arnoldo Varona, Editor.