{{Short description|American actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Lynnette Mettey | birthname = | birth_date = <!-- Valid citation required for date of birth for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) --> | birth_place = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1970–1996 }}
'''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<ref>{{cite news |title=Class Officers Elected At Burr-Burton |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/bennington-banner/170150062/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |work=Bennington Banner |date=September 13, 1957 |page=8|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> and studied dancing at the Joyce Hurley School of Dance.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dancers start work on June production |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-manchester-journal/170163174/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |work=The Manchester Journal |date=May 5, 1960 |page=1|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1962.<ref>{{cite news |title=Manchester Girl Graduates In New York City |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-manchester-journal-lynette-mettey/170169164/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |work=The Manchester Journal |date=April 5, 1962 |page=1|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> She is the daughter of Mrs. Madeline Mettey, and she has a sister and a brother,.<ref name="pschorr" />
==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.<ref name=aada>{{cite news |title=Local Girl To Be Caravan Apprentice |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-manchester-journal-lynnette-mettey/170163707/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |work=The Manchester Journal |date=May 25, 1961 |page=5|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gilbert |first1=William |title=Caravaners Shine Up Twin BilL Of 'Trite Gems' at Dorset |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/bennington-banner-vermont-play-review/110884339/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |work=Bennington Banner |date=August 20, 1965 |page=6|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>
In the summer of 1962 Mettey was the resident ingenue at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison, Maine.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former Caravaners Flung Far And Wide |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-manchester-journal/170168651/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |work=The Manchester Journal |date=June 14, 1962 |page=4|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> Later in 1962 she performed Off-Broadway in ''The Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstermaker''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Kevin |title=Talented Playwright Has Touch-and-Go Debut Off-Broadway |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/170169884/ |work=The Boston Sunday Globe |date=December 9, 1962 |page=A 81|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mash4077tv.com/nurses/same-face-different-name/ |title=Nurses of the 4077th |access-date=April 9, 2025}}</ref>
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''
==Personal life== Mettey married Michael Pschorr in Manchester, Vermont, on May 16, 1964.<ref name="pschorr">{{cite news |title=Pschorr-Mettey |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/bennington-banner-lynette-mettey/170171196/ |access-date=April 12, 2025 |work=Bennington Banner |date=May 25, 1964 |page=3|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |- |1970|| ''Medical Center'' ||Nurse||1 episode, as Lynette Mettey |- |1971|| ''Hogan's Heroes'' ||Fraülein Hibbler||1 episode, as Lynette Mettey |- |1971|| ''Dan August'' ||Joan Oakland||1 episode |- |1971|| ''Columbo'' ||Gloria Jr.||1 episode |- |1971|| ''The Doris Day Show'' ||Dolly||1 episode |- |1971|| ''Ironside'' ||Vera||1 episode, as Lynette Mettey |- |1971|| ''The F.B.I.'' ||Donna, Marian||2 episodes |- |1972|| ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' ||Sue Marshall||1 episode |- |1972|| ''The Jimmy Stewart Show'' ||Joyce Cone||1 episode |- |1972|| ''Heat of Anger'' ||Fran||TV Movie, as Lynette Metey |- |1972|| ''The Bold Ones: The New Doctors'' ||Dee Merlino||1 episode |- |1972|| ''All in the Family'' ||Susan (uncredited)||1 episode |- |1973|| ''Love Story'' ||Peggy Gallagher||1 episode, as Lynette Mettey |- |1973|| ''Kibbee and Fitch'' ||Kate Kibbee||TV Movie, as Lynette Metey |- |1974|| ''Hawaii Five-O'' ||Cindy Imala||1 episode |- |1974|| ''Banacek'' ||Emily Parker||1 episode |- |1974|| ''Death in Space'' ||Kim Clarion||TV Movie, as Lynette Metey |- |1973–1974|| ''Kojak'' ||Sgt. Doris Holloway, Joannie Garretty||2 episodes |- |1974|| ''Police Story'' ||Waitress #2||1 episode |- |1974|| ''The Rockford Files'' ||Carol Thorne||1 episode |- |1975|| ''Movin' On'' ||Millie||1 episode |- |1975|| ''Harry O'' ||Barbara Manush||1 episode, as Lynette Mettey |- |1972–1975|| ''Cannon'' ||Doris Grady, Laura Corey, Waitress||3 episodes |- |1973–1976|| ''M*A*S*H'' ||Lt. Nancy Griffin, Nurse Sheila Anderson, Nurse Able, Nurse Baker||6 episodes |- |1976|| ''The Streets of San Francisco'' ||Ellen Matthews||1 episode |- |1976|| ''Special Delivery'' ||Marj||Movie, as Lynette Mettey |- |1976|| ''Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers'' ||Bank clerk||TV Mini Series, 1 episode |- |1976–77|| ''Quincy M.E.'' ||Lee Potter||7 episodes |- |1977|| ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' ||Joan|| |- |1979|| ''Starting Fresh'' ||||TV Movie, as Lynette Metey |- |1979|| ''The Runaways'' ||Barbara Mardsen||2 episodes, as Lynette Mettey |- |1977–79|| ''Barnaby Jones'' ||Leslie Jessup, Sally Delphine||2 episodes |- |1981|| ''The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo'' ||Jessica Wright||1 episode |- |1981|| ''Fitz and Bones'' ||Lt. Rosie Cochran Lieutenant Rosie Cochran (as Lynette Mettey)||Series regular |- |1981|| ''The Ordeal of Bill Carney'' ||Nora Rose||TV Movie, as Lynette Metey |- |1982|| ''Terror at Alcatraz'' ||Lt. Rosie Cochran||TV Movie, as Lynette Metey |- |1982|| ''Two of Hearts'' ||||TV Movie |- |1984|| ''Silence of the Heart'' ||Marilyn Cruze||TV Movie (uncredited) |- |1982–1984|| ''Simon & Simon'' ||Police Chief Mary Louise Drinkman, Joan Klein, Mrs. Jean Edmonds||3 episodes |- |1985|| ''Trapper John, M.D.'' ||Ginnie Crawfield||1 episode |- |1986|| ''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' ||Dr. Brody||1 episode, as Lynette Mettey |- |1986–1988|| ''The Magical World of Disney'' ||Priscilla, Ship Computer Voice, Lynn Franklin||3 episodes |- |1988|| ''Family Man'' ||||1 episode |- |1988|| ''Favorite Son'' ||Elaine Rose||TV Mini Series, 3 episodes |- |1989|| ''Liberty & Bash'' ||Terry||Series regular, as Lynette Mettey |- |1993|| ''Batman: The Animated Series'' ||Janet Van Dorn||1 episode, as Lynette Mettey |- |1996|| ''Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man'' ||(voice role)||1 episode, as Lynette Mettey |}
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