Lurene Tuttle

Acting • Born 1907-08-20 – Died 1986-05-28

Acting1Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lurene Tuttle (August 29, 1907, Pleasant Lake, Indiana - May 28, 1986, Encino, California) was a character actress, who made transitions from vaudeville to radio, to films and television. Her most enduring impact was as one of network radio's most versatile actresses. Often appearing in 15 shows a week, comedies, dramas, thrillers, soap operas, and crime dramas, and she became known as the First Lady of Radio. Heaven Only Knows (1947) was her first film. She went on to roles in other films such as Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), as the wife of Sheriff Chambers. In Don't Bother to Knock (1952) she portrayed a mother who lets a disturbed Marilyn Monroe babysit her daughter. The next year she appeared again with Marilyn in Niagara, as Mrs. Kettering. She had a rare starring role in Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960). She played Grandma Pusser in the original Walking Tall film trilogy, and also appeared in horror films such as The Manitou (1978), starring Tony Curtis. Her final film role was in the 1983 film Testament. Tuttle became a familiar face to millions of television viewers with more than 100 appearances from 1950 to 1986, often in the role of an inquisitive busybody. On television and in films, Tuttle streamlined herself into a pattern of roles between wise, loving wives/mothers or bristling matrons. She was familiar to the early television audience as wife/mother Lavinia (Vinnie) Day in Life with Father (1953–1955). Columnist Hedda Hopper called the selection of Leon Ames as Father and Tuttle as Mother "what I consider 22 carat casting with two all-Americans." Description above from the Wikipedia article Lurene Tuttle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

136 credits

Psycho

Movie • 1960

Mrs. Chambers

The Fortune Cookie

Movie • 1966

Mother Hinkle

Critic's Choice

Movie • 1963

Mother in "Sisters Three"

Don't Bother to Knock

Movie • 1952

Ruth Jones

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Movie • 1948

Mary

The Crash of Flight 401

Movie • 1978

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Movie • 1966

Mrs. Natalie Miller

The Manitou

Movie • 1978

Mrs. Herz

Tomorrow Is Another Day

Movie • 1951

Mrs. Dawson

The Whip Hand

Movie • 1951

Molly Loomis

Room for One More

Movie • 1952

Miss Kenyon

24 Hour Psycho

Movie • 1993

Mrs. Chambers (archive footage)

Niagara

Movie • 1953

Mrs. Kettering

Human Experiments

Movie • 1979

Granny

Walking Tall Part II

Movie • 1975

Grandma Pusser

Down and Dirty Duck

Movie • 1974

Duck's Mother (voice)

Slander

Movie • 1957

Mrs. Doyle

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

Movie • 1960

Ma Barker

Parts: The Clonus Horror

Movie • 1979

Anna Noble

Never Wave at a WAC

Movie • 1953

Capt. Murchinson, Company CO

Nightmare in the Sun

Movie • 1965

Gideon's wife

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Movie • 1981

Miss Watson

Give a Girl a Break

Movie • 1953

Mrs. Doolittle

Goodbye, My Fancy

Movie • 1951

Ellen Griswold

The Glass Slipper

Movie • 1955

Cousin Loulou

Walking Tall

Movie • 1973

Grandma

Law and Order

Movie • 1976

Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.

Final Chapter: Walking Tall

Movie • 1977

Grandma

Sincerely Yours

Movie • 1955

Mrs. McGinley

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

Movie • 1953

Mrs. Eleanor Hammer

White Mama

Movie • 1980

Mrs. McIntyre

For the Love of It

Movie • 1980

Blanche

Shooting Stars

Movie • 1983

Mrs. Brand

Sweet Smell of Success

Movie • 1957

Loretta Bartha (uncredited)

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

Movie • 1981

Mollie Heller

Shooting Stars

Movie • 1983

Mrs Brand

Testament

Movie • 1983

Rosemary Abhart

Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz

Movie • 1980

Aunt Em (voice)

Carlton Your Doorman

Movie • 1980

Carlton's Mother (voice)

Dr. Shagetz

Movie • 1975

Mildred Phelps

Evil Town

Movie • 1987

Mildred Phelps

The Unchained Goddess

Movie • 1958

Meteora the Goddess of Weather

Heaven Only Knows

Movie • 1947

Mrs. O'Donnell

Untamed Youth

Movie • 1957

Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp

Macbeth

Movie • 1948

Gentlewoman / The Three

Live Again, Die Again

Movie • 1974

Betty Simpson

Mrs. Sundance

Movie • 1974

Mrs. Lee

Tom, Dick and Harry

Movie • 1941

Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)

A Life of Her Own

Movie • 1950

Secretary (uncredited)

Homecoming

Movie • 1948

Miss Stoker

The Restless Ones

Movie • 1965

David's Grandmother

Three Lives

Movie • 1953

Mrs. Armstrong

Stand Up and Cheer!

Movie • 1934

Stenographer

Sadie Hawkins Day

Movie • 1944

Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Movie • 1984

Mrs. Hunt

St. Elsewhere

TV • 1982

Margaret Harper - Ellen's mother

Murder, She Wrote

TV • 1984

Agnes Cochran

The Andy Griffith Show

TV • 1960

Annabelle Silby

Alice

TV • 1976

Burke's Law

TV • 1963

Amanda

The Rookies

TV • 1972

Trapper John, M.D.

TV • 1979

Bourbon Street Beat

TV • 1959

My Three Sons

TV • 1960

Little House on the Prairie

TV • 1974

I Dream of Jeannie

TV • 1965

Mama

The Munsters

TV • 1964

Mrs. Morton

The Beverly Hillbillies

TV • 1962

I Love Lucy

TV • 1951

Club President

Dynasty

TV • 1981

Petticoat Junction

TV • 1963

Adelaide Keane

Charlie's Angels

TV • 1976

Mrs. Machlin

Mannix

TV • 1967

Medical Center

TV • 1969

Hart to Hart

TV • 1979

Gunsmoke

TV • 1955

Mrs. Cumbers

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Anna Houser

General Electric Theater

TV • 1953

Voyagers!

TV • 1982

Leave It to Beaver

TV • 1957

Crazy like a Fox

TV • 1984

The Twilight Zone

TV • 1959

Secretary (uncredited)

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

TV • 1966

Dennis the Menace

TV • 1959

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

Police Woman

TV • 1974

Switch

TV • 1975

Mary Beame

The Millionaire

TV • 1955

Maggie Tremayne

Julia

TV • 1968

Julia

TV • 1968

Hannah Yarby

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

TV • 1951

Marjorie

The Thin Man

TV • 1957

Matt Houston

TV • 1982

The Real McCoys

TV • 1957

Hazel

TV • 1961

Adventures in Paradise

TV • 1959

Penelope Hobart

Pete and Gladys

TV • 1960

Judd for the Defense

TV • 1967

The 20th Century Fox Hour

TV • 1955

Matinee Theater

TV • 1955

You Are There

TV • 1953

Father of the Bride

TV • 1961

Doris Dunston

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

TV • 1956

Wanted: Dead or Alive

TV • 1958

Mrs. Walker

Lawman

TV • 1958

Mr. Novak

TV • 1963

Mrs. Grange

The Texan

TV • 1958

Life With Father

TV • 1953

Cavalcade of America

TV • 1952

Betsy Peale

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

TV • 1970

Bella Swann (as Lorene Tuttle)

Johnny Ringo

TV • 1959

Mamie Murphy

Dr. Kildare

TV • 1961

Mrs. Parker

Summer Playhouse

TV • 1954

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

TV • 1959

Lillian

Johnny Midnight

TV • 1960

Switch

TV • 1975

Rose

The Americans

TV • 1961

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

TV • 1960

Tessie

Amazing Stories

TV • 1985

Harriet Wendse

Adam-12

TV • 1968

Iris Kelly

Petticoat Junction

Colt .45

TV • 1957

Frances Benedict

Fantasy Island

TV • 1978

Mary Emery

The Second Hundred Years

TV • 1967

Annie

The Partridge Family

TV • 1970

Mrs. Sharp