‘M*A*S*H’ star Judy Farrell dead: Nurse Able actress was 84
nypost.comtold TMZ that his mom passed away Sunday in the hospital nine days after suffering a stroke.Complications from the stroke made the actress unable to speak, but she was conscious, alert and able to squeeze her loved ones’ hands, he said.Farrell was in eight episodes of the hugely popular “M*A*S*H,” a sitcom set during the Korean War that ran from 1972 to 1983, and her first husband, two-time Emmy nominee Mike Farrell, joined the show as Captain B.J.
Hunnicutt in 1975, staying through the series finale.She also appeared in TV shows including “Get Smart,” “The Partridge Family,” “Quincy, M.E.” and “Emergency!” as well as films such as “J.W.
Coop” (1971), “Chapter Two” (1979) and “Long-Term Relationship” (2006).In 2018, she recalled a particularly memorable — and humorous — moment with series star Alan Alda while filming “M*A*S*H.”“I did an episode where Hawkeye goes to fix a gas stove in the nurse’s tent and it blows up, making him temporarily blind.
Alan decided to make it so he really couldn’t see. I ended up being the nurse who led him around, except I was always bumping him into stuff because I didn’t know how to lead a blind person around,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “At one point, Alan turned to me and said, ‘Do your children trust you?’”Judy and Mike married in 1963 and divorced 20 years later in 1983.
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