Lynnette Mettey
Lynnette Mettey is an American actress, perhaps best known for her recurring role as Nurse Able on M*A*S*H and as Lee Potter, Quincy's girlfriend, on Quincy, M.E.. She made dozens of guest appearances on television shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including Columbo, All in the Family, Hawaii Five-O, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Simon & Simon.
Mettey also appeared in dozens of television commercials in the 1970s and 1980s, and she has lent her highly recognizable voice to hundreds of radio commercials. For almost 40 years, she was the commercial spokesperson for S. C. Johnson & Son, doing voiceovers for a variety of product advertisements but never appearing on camera.
Throughout her career, she was often credited with an alternate spelling of her first name, as Lynette Mettey.
Early years
Mettey attended Burr and Burton Seminary in Manchester, Vermont and studied dancing at the Joyce Hurley School of Dance. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1962. She is the daughter of Mrs. Madeline Mettey, and she has a sister and a brother,.Acting career
Mettey's early experience on stage included performing with the Caravan Theatre in two 1960 productions at the Dorset Playhouse in Bennington, Vermont. She was a scholarship apprentice with that group in the summer of 1961. A review of her 1965 performance there in The Private Ear and The Public Eye said her "double characterization is charming to watch" and added that her "playing is quiet, warm and assured".In the summer of 1962 Mettey was the resident ingenue at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison, Maine. Later in 1962 she performed Off-Broadway in The Days and Nights o fBeebee Fenstermaker.
Mettey made her television debut in 1970 playing a nurse on an episode of Medical Center. Over the next few years, she made guest appearances on a dozen other shows and appeared in the 1972 television movie Heat of Anger alongside Lee J. Cobb and Susan Hayward.
She appeared in a recurring role as Lt. Nancy Griffin during the first season of M*A*S*H. Mettey portrayed a nurse and love interest of Hawkeye Pierce during the first season. She returned occasionally over the next three seasons to play other characters, portraying Nurse Sheila Anderson, Nurse Baker, and Nurse Able.
Mettey also appeared on the first two seasons of Quincy, M.E., portraying Lee Potter, a girlfriend of the show's title character who sometimes accompanied him on his cases. She played the ex-wife of Dick Smothers' character on the short-lived series Fitz and Bones, reprising that role for the 1982 television movie Terror at Alcatraz.
During the 1990s, she did voice work for a number of animated series including Batman: The Animated Series and ''Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man''