Vale: Judy Farrell
Judy Farrell, best known for her role as Nurse Able on M*A*S*H, has died.
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Judy Farrell, best known for her role as Nurse Able on M*A*S*H, has died aged 84.
Loretta Swit, who starred alongside Farrell on the show, confirmed the in a statement, “Judy was a most beautiful woman — inside and out. We grew up together. She was family. This has been a painful loss, but we will always have the beauty of her memory. Rest in peace, Nurse Able.”
Farrell’s son Michael said his mother died on April 2nd after a stroke that took away her ability to speak nine days earlier. He said Farrell was conscious and able to hold the hands of her loved ones prior to her death.
Farrell first appeared on M*A*S*H in 1976, and would appear in seven more episodes before the show’s conclusion in 1983.
She was previously married to co-star, Mike Farrell, who played Captain B.J. Hunnicutt, from 1963 to 1983.
Her other TV credits included Get Smart, The Partridge Family, and as Mrs. Charlotte Miller on Fame.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
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Ah, the dreaded comma got me 🙂
One of 11 Nurse Ables. Minor nurses with a line, and hence a credit, were credited as Able, Baker or Charlie, following the US Army phonetic alphabet during the Korean War. Later on they retained actors for such characters, with Judy Farrell playing Nurse Able 7 times (one of her credited appearances was cut) from S5 to Goodbye, Farewell and Amen. She was most known for writing for Port Charles, a General Hospital Spin off.
1963?
Refers to marriage, I believe.