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Nancy Jane Steen (born January 31, 1950, in Shoreview, Minnesota) is an American television producer, writer and actress. Career [ edit ] Steen began her career as an actress at Dudley Riggs ' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis , Minnesota .
- Actress, TV screenwriter, and producer
- Nancy Jane Steen, January 31, 1950 (age 73), Shoreview, Minnesota, U.S.
- 1972–present
- University of Minnesota, 1972, B.A. Theater
- Overview
- Jeanne Schulherr
- Nancy Steen
- Patricia Stevens
- Phyllis Katz
- Pamela Coleman
Over the 11-year run of the MASH television series, a great number of actresses have played side or background roles as nurses. Some of these actresses have appeared only once while others have appeared enough times to be identified by viewers as regular members of the recurring cast. Very often they have gone uncredited or are not given character names, being credited simply as "nurse", but in almost every case, they take great pride in having been part of one of the greatest shows in the history of television.
This page documents and celebrates the many nurse characters in MASH who, because they have no name, do not have a page of their own.
In the Season 3 episode "O.R.", Jeanne Schulherr plays an unnamed anesthetist who is assisting Hawkeye with his patient. Part way through the operation, she interjects to warn Hawkeye that there is no pulse. Hawkeye attempts to revive the patient with chest compressions and finally the desperate measure of open heart massage while tension mounts in the rest of the O.R. All the while Jeanne's character calmly ventilates the patient and reports on pulse and blood pressure until she finally announces: "92 over 60" (a near normal blood pressure). This breaks the tension in the O.R. as everyone realizes the patient has pulled through.
Jeanne is probably better known as the actress who plays the role of Frank's wife Louise Burns (as seen in a home movie of their wedding) during the Season 3 episode
In Season 6 ""The Smell of Music", Nancy Steen is credited simply as "nurse". This is a little strange as her character has a larger role in the plot and has more lines than another nurse who is credited with the name Nurse Denver (played by Lois Foraker). Steen's character first shows up outside the O.R. where Hawkeye tries to hit on her for a date. She turns him down because he is "a bit aromatic" (he has not showered for days in order to protest against Winchester's playing of the French horn). Later in the O.R. when Potter urges Hawkeye and B.J. to take a shower, Steen says "Hear hear!" Hawkeye continues to hit on her across the operating table. He suggests they stand at ten paces and talk dirty but she rejects the idea.
Later, Steen's character, on Post Op duty, is reprimanded by Potter because the suicidal patient Saunders had managed to steal and swallow a whole bottle of sleeping pills when she stepped into the supply room for a minute. After the patient is revived, Potter leaves her strict instructions that a 24-hour watch is to be maintained on Saunders and he must not to be left alone at any time.
In Season 7 "Major Ego" it is the turn of veteran recurring cast member Patricia Stevens to be given a generic credit as an unnamed "duty nurse". This would also be her final credited appearance in the entire series. In earlier seasons she had already played multiple characters such as Lieutenant Mitchell, Lieutenant Stevens, Lieutenant Brown as well as one of the many Ables. Just before this unnamed credit, she had already served four stints as the generic Nurse Baker from late Season 5 to Season 6. However it is probably incorrect to group this unnamed "duty nurse" as a continuation of her string of Bakers because from the beginning of Season 7 Jan Jorden had taken over as the "regular" player of the Baker character.
During the "Major Ego", Hawkeye is on his rounds in Post Op when he notices that there is too much blood in the chest drainage tube of one of Winchester's patients. He asks Stevens about it and she confirms that the tube had been bloody from the time she came on Post Op duty three hours before. A few hours later, Hawkeye visits again and continues to be worried. Not only is the drainage still bloody but now, according to Stevens, the patient's pulse is 110. Hawkeye decides that the patient has "blown a gasket" and instructs Stevens to prepare the patient for surgery.
Phyllis Katz made a total of 4 credited appearances on MASH but only in one episode, Season 5 "Hawkeye Get Your Gun" would she be credited as one of the many Ables. In Season 6, "What's up, Doc?" she is credited simply as nurse and plays a bit role helping to gown Hawkeye in the O.R. In Season 7, "Major Ego", she is credited as "Triage Nurse" and i...
In Season 9 "Bless You, Hawkeye", Pamela Coleman has this very brief part in the opening triage scene where she says "Yes, doctor" to B.J.'s instructions. She is credited simply as "nurse". Strange that they thought it necessary to introduce a new actor for this bit role. Nurse Shari (Shari Saba) who by this time is quite a regular recurring charac...
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Nancy Steen is a writer, actor, producer, creator, and executive producer for various TV shows, such as Police Squad!, Roseanne, Happy Days, and The Love Boat. She also wrote and produced the 2003 film I'm with Her and the 1992 series Stand By Your Man.
Mork & Mindy. 1980. Taxi. 1979. M*A*S*H. 1978. Charlie's Angels. 1977. See Nancy Steen full list of movies and tv shows from their career.
Stand by Your Man: Created by Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson. With Melissa Gilbert, Rosie O'Donnell, Sam McMurray, Miriam Flynn. Remake of a British sitcom about the comedic plight of two sisters after their husbands go to jail.
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