Obit: Jeanne Bates; Veteran film, radio & TV actress..Nurse Wills on "Ben Casey"
Bates began her acting career appearing on radio soap operas in San Francisco while attending San Mateo Junior College.
She played the lead -- and supplied the signature scream -- on the radio mystery series "Whodunit."
She was the heroine in the 1943 serial "The Phantom," starring Tom Tyler (and) Nurse Wills on the medical drama "Ben Casey."
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Bates began her acting career appearing on radio soap operas in San Francisco while attending San Mateo Junior College.
She played the lead -- and supplied the signature scream -- on the radio mystery series "Whodunit."
She was the heroine in the 1943 serial "The Phantom," starring Tom Tyler (and) Nurse Wills on the medical drama "Ben Casey."
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituar...ry?coll=la-news-obituaries&ctrack=2&cset=true