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 of Beebee 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
Personal life Mettey married Michael Pschorr in Manchester, Vermont, on May 16, 1964.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1970 Medical Center Nurse1 episode, as Lynette Mettey1971 Hogan's Heroes Fraülein Hibbler1 episode, as Lynette Mettey1971 Dan August Joan Oakland1 episode1971 Columbo Gloria Jr.1 episode1971 The Doris Day Show Dolly1 episode1971 Ironside Vera1 episode, as Lynette Mettey1971 The F.B.I. Donna, Marian2 episodes1972 Marcus Welby, M.D. Sue Marshall1 episode1972 The Jimmy Stewart Show Joyce Cone1 episode1972 Heat of Anger FranTV Movie, as Lynette Metey1972 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors Dee Merlino1 episode1972 All in the Family Susan (uncredited)1 episode1973 Love Story Peggy Gallagher1 episode, as Lynette Mettey1973 Kibbee and Fitch Kate KibbeeTV Movie, as Lynette Metey1974 Hawaii Five-O Cindy Imala1 episode1974 Banacek Emily Parker1 episode1974 Death in Space Kim ClarionTV Movie, as Lynette Metey1973–1974 Kojak Sgt. Doris Holloway, Joannie Garretty2 episodes1974 Police Story Waitress #21 episode1974 The Rockford Files Carol Thorne1 episode1975 Movin' On Millie1 episode1975 Harry O Barbara Manush1 episode, as Lynette Mettey1972–1975 Cannon Doris Grady, Laura Corey, Waitress3 episodes1973–1976 M*A*S*H Lt. Nancy Griffin, Nurse Sheila Anderson, Nurse Able, Nurse Baker6 episodes1976 The Streets of San Francisco Ellen Matthews1 episode1976 Special Delivery MarjMovie, as Lynette Mettey1976 Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers Bank clerkTV Mini Series, 1 episode1976–77 Quincy M.E. Lee Potter7 episodes1977 The Six Million Dollar Man Joan1979 Starting Fresh TV Movie, as Lynette Metey1979 The Runaways Barbara Mardsen2 episodes, as Lynette Mettey1977–79 Barnaby Jones Leslie Jessup, Sally Delphine2 episodes1981 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo Jessica Wright1 episode1981 Fitz and Bones Lt. Rosie Cochran Lieutenant Rosie Cochran (as Lynette Mettey)Series regular1981 The Ordeal of Bill Carney Nora RoseTV Movie, as Lynette Metey1982 Terror at Alcatraz Lt. Rosie CochranTV Movie, as Lynette Metey1982 Two of Hearts TV Movie1984 Silence of the Heart Marilyn CruzeTV Movie (uncredited)1982–1984 Simon & Simon Police Chief Mary Louise Drinkman, Joan Klein, Mrs. Jean Edmonds3 episodes1985 Trapper John, M.D. Ginnie Crawfield1 episode1986 It's Garry Shandling's Show Dr. Brody1 episode, as Lynette Mettey1986–1988 The Magical World of Disney Priscilla, Ship Computer Voice, Lynn Franklin3 episodes1988 Family Man 1 episode1988 Favorite Son Elaine RoseTV Mini Series, 3 episodes1989 Liberty & Bash TerrySeries regular, as Lynette Mettey1993 Batman: The Animated Series Janet Van Dorn1 episode, as Lynette Mettey1996 Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (voice role)1 episode, as Lynette Mettey
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