Josephine Hutchinson
Acting • Born 1903-10-12 – Died 1998-06-04
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 - June 4, 1998) was an American actress. Hutchinson was born in Seattle, Washington. Her mother, Leona Roberts, was an actress best known for her role as Mrs. Meade in Gone with the Wind. Under contract with Warner Bros., Hutchinson went to Hollywood in 1934, debuting in Happiness Ahead. She was featured on the cover of Film Weekly on August 23, 1935 and appeared in The Story of Louis Pasteur in 1936. At Universal, she played Elsa von Frankenstein in one of her more memorable roles alongside actor Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein (1939). She later played Mrs. Townsend in North by Northwest (1959) and Love Is Better Than Ever, starring Elizabeth Taylor. Hutchinson made a number of Television appearances, including episodes of Perry Mason, The Rifleman and Little House on the Prairie. She died, aged 94, on June 4, 1998 at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in Manhattan. Her ashes were scattered near her niece’s home at Springfield, Oregon.
Filmography
67 credits
North by Northwest
Movie • 1959
Mrs. Townsend
Son of Frankenstein
Movie • 1939
Elsa von Frankenstein
Nevada Smith
Movie • 1966
Mrs. Elvira McCanles
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Movie • 1960
Widow Douglas
Love Is Better Than Ever
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Macaboy
Tom Brown's School Days
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Mary Arnold
The Right to Live
Movie • 1935
Stella Trent
Ruby Gentry
Movie • 1952
Letitia Gentry
Many Rivers to Cross
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Cherne
Step Down to Terror
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Walters
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Movie • 1936
Marie Pasteur
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Movie • 1971
Mamie Baldwin
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Movie • 1965
Mme Ewing
Miracle in the Rain
Movie • 1956
Agnes Wood
Cass Timberlane
Movie • 1947
Lillian Drover
Happiness Ahead
Movie • 1934
Joan Bradford
Mountain Justice
Movie • 1937
Ruth Harkins
The Women Men Marry
Movie • 1937
Jane Carson
I Married a Doctor
Movie • 1936
Carol Kennicott
Oil for the Lamps of China
Movie • 1935
Hester Adams Chase
Adventure in Baltimore
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Lilly Sheldon
Sing Boy Sing
Movie • 1958
Caroline Walker
Somewhere in the Night
Movie • 1946
Elizabeth Conroy
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Movie • 1938
Dr. Mary Reynolds
Shadow Over Elveron
Movie • 1968
Emily Maslan
Walk Like a Dragon
Movie • 1960
Ma Bartlett
My Son, My Son!
Movie • 1940
Nellie Moscrop Essex
Gun for a Coward
Movie • 1956
Madame Keough
A Little Princess
Movie • 1917
(uncredited)
Rabbit, Run
Movie • 1970
Mrs. Angstrom
The Tender Years
Movie • 1948
Emily Norris
Travis Logan, D.A.
Movie • 1971
Mrs. Tice
Her First Beau
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Wood
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Movie • 1943
Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
The Melody Lingers on
Movie • 1935
Ann Prescott
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Madeline Vickers
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Mrs. Blanchard
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Libby Jackson
Mannix
TV • 1967
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Mrs. Crale
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Leona Walsh
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Mother
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Grandma
To Rome with Love
TV • 1969
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Abigail Briggs
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Mrs. Lavery
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Mother Superior
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
The Sixth Sense
TV • 1972
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Nettie
General Electric True
TV • 1962
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Amelia Blair
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Betty Galloway
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Anna Wandermere
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Sister Ellen
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Martha Randolph
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Mama Stacey
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Miriam Baker
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Millie Farrell
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Miss Sarah
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
TV • 1953
Lyddie Hampton
Then Came Bronson
TV • 1969
Miss Lucy
The Partridge Family
TV • 1970
Amanda