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New York Post
4 Apr 2023


NextImg:‘M*A*S*H’ star Judy Farrell dead: Nurse Able actress was 84

Judy Farrell, known for her role as Nurse Able in the TV show “MAS*H,” has died following a stroke.

She was 84.

Farrell’s son Michael told 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 “MAS*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).

Judy Farrell in “MAS*H.”
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In 2018, she recalled a particularly memorable — and humorous — moment with series star Alan Alda while filming “MAS*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.

Loretta Swit, Mike Farrell, David Ogden Stiers, Jamie Farr, Harry Morgan, Alan Alda, William Christopher and Judy Farrell

Loretta Swit, Mike Farrell, David Ogden Stiers, Jamie Farr, Harry Morgan, Alan Alda, William Christopher and Judy Farrell appear in the last episode of “MAS*H.”
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Judy Farrell, Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Dawn Lyn, Tim Donnelly in 'Dinner Date'

Judy Farrell, Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Dawn Lyn and Tim Donnelly in “Emergency!” in 1972.
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She married Joe Bratcher two years later in 1985.

Farrell is survived by Bratcher and her two children with Mike, Michael and Erin.