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Constance "Connie" Ruscetti Izay (November 29, 1928 – August 21, 1982) was an American nurse, actress, and technical advisor on television programs, including M*A*S*H and Marcus Welby, M.D. Early life and education
Connie Izay (1928-1982) was an American actress and writer who appeared in TV shows such as Marcus Welby, M.D., M*A*S*H and Man from Atlantis. She was also a registered nurse and a technical advisor for some episodes.
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Connie Izay R.N. (born November 29, 1928 - died August 21, 1982) appeared as Lieutenant Connie in three Season 8 episodes of M*A*S*H. However, her greater contribution to the series was probably as its technical adviser from 1977 to 1982. After she died in 1982 of breast cancer, an entire episode, "As Time Goes By", was dedicated to her memory, mak...
Born on November 29, 1928 in Pennsylvania, USA as Constance Blanche Ruscetti, Connie trained as a nurse and lived in Albuquerque where she met and married Victor Izay and had three children, Gregory, Victoria and Stephen. She later served during the Korean War as a MASH nurse.
In 1958 Connie acted in "The Moon is Blue" with the New Vic Players, a stage play directed by her husband. Later she moved to California with her husband where her husband began a screen career as a bit and character actor in Westerns and TV series such as "Gunsmoke", "Marcus Welby, M.D." and "The Waltons".
Connie started out as a first-aid nurse at Universal Studios. She later moved up to be a technical adviser on medical/nursing matters for "Marcus Welby, M.D." and also acted as various nurse characters for 14 episodes. There was no precedent at that time to credit her work as a technical adviser so she never received an on-screen credit for her work. When the Marcus Welby series ended, she moved to 20th Century Fox and became technical adviser for M*A*S*H from 1977 onwards but did not receive any on-screen credit for this work either, despite the intervention of Alan Alda on her behalf. However she did receive credits for two appearances as nurse characters in Season 8. Her other screen work included playing a nurse in "The Man from Atlantis" which provides a rare close-up image of her (as seen in the info box). In M*A*S*H, she is, unfortunately only ever seen in a surgical mask.
Her work on "Marcus Welby, M.D." and "M*A*S*H" involved going through scripts and checking for goofs and penciling in the correct pronunciation of medical terms. She would also be on hand to advise on acting mistakes such as when a doctor holds an x-ray upside down. During filming, she would be regularly called upon to tie up bandages for simulated war wounds. Speaking during an interview, she related how she felt personally responsible for accurate depiction of medical procedures on TV. She had continued to work in a hospital in Burbank and had found that some patients swore by Marcus Welby, and goofs could have potentially disastrous results. Connie also worked as an adviser for TV series and shows such as "Bonanza", "Airport" and "Starsky and Hutch".
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3.Albuquerque Journal, July 24, 1958, page 8
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5.The Argus of Fremont California, May 15, 1972, page 9
6.The Ottawa Journal, March 15, 1980, page 121
•Connie Izay at the Internet Movie Database
Originally Created by: Chris Mills. Added: Feb 28, 2012. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 85894969. Source citation. Constance Connie Izay, was a veteran of the Korean War, serving as a M*A*S*H Nurse. Twenty years later, she became a technical adviser for the television program M*A*S*H, instructing the 'nurses' on the program in the duties of a nurse ...
The episode is dedicated to Connie Izay, RN, one of the show's medical advisors, who died before the episode aired. Although this was the penultimate episode of the series, it was the final episode produced, wrapping on January 14, 1983 at exactly 6:05 p.m. [ 1 ] The series finale, " Goodbye, Farewell and Amen ", had been filmed earlier in the ...
Connie Izay was an actress and writer who appeared in Marcus Welby, M.D., M*A*S*H and Man from Atlantis. She was born in Pennsylvania, married Victor Izay and died in Los Angeles in 1982.
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Aug 27, 1982 · LOS ANGELES -- Connie Izay, who served as a medical adviser on the 'Marcus Welby' and 'MASH' television series, has died of cancer. She was 53. Mrs. Izay, wife of actor Victor Izay, was a ...
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