Lurene Tuttle

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA, 1907-08-20

Died: 1986-05-28

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1934	Stand Up and Cheer!	Stenographer	49
2	1941	Tom, Dick and Harry	Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)	56
3	1944	Sadie Hawkins Day	Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)	70
4	1947	Heaven Only Knows	Mrs. O'Donnell	60
5	1948	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House	Mary	70
6	1948	Homecoming	Miss Stoker	70
7	1948	Macbeth	Gentlewoman / The Three	72
8	1950	A Life of Her Own	Secretary (uncredited)	53
9	1951	Goodbye, My Fancy	Ellen Griswold	59
10	1951	Tomorrow Is Another Day	Mrs. Dawson	65
11	1951	The Whip Hand	Molly Loomis	56
12	1952	Room for One More	Miss Kenyon	63
13	1952	Don't Bother to Knock	Ruth Jones	67
14	1953	Niagara	Mrs. Kettering	68
15	1953	Never Wave at a WAC	Capt. Murchinson, Company CO	49
16	1953	The Affairs of Dobie Gillis	Mrs. Eleanor Hammer	55
17	1953	Three Lives	Mrs. Armstrong	0
18	1953	Give a Girl a Break	Mrs. Doolittle	53
19	1955	The Glass Slipper	Cousin Loulou	63
20	1955	Sincerely Yours	Mrs. McGinley	58
21	1957	Slander	Mrs. Doyle	63
22	1957	Untamed Youth	Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp	40
23	1957	Sweet Smell of Success	Loretta Bartha (uncredited)	76
24	1958	The Unchained Goddess	Meteora the Goddess of Weather	70
25	1960	Ma Barker's Killer Brood	Ma Barker	59
26	1960	Psycho	Mrs. Chambers	84
27	1963	Critic's Choice	Mother in "Sisters Three"	55
28	1965	Nightmare in the Sun	Gideon's wife	25
29	1965	The Restless Ones	David's Grandmother	42
30	1966	The Ghost & Mr. Chicken	Mrs. Natalie Miller	67
31	1966	The Fortune Cookie	Mother Hinkle	72
32	1973	Walking Tall	Grandma	66
33	1974	Mrs. Sundance	Mrs. Lee	75
34	1974	Live Again, Die Again	Betty Simpson	80
35	1974	Down and Dirty Duck	Duck's Mother (voice)	48
36	1975	Dr. Shagetz	Mildred Phelps	0
37	1975	Walking Tall Part II	Grandma Pusser	54
38	1976	Law and Order	Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.	0
39	1977	Final Chapter: Walking Tall	Grandma	53
40	1978	The Manitou	Mrs. Herz	54
41	1978	The Crash of Flight 401		75
42	1979	Parts: The Clonus Horror	Anna Noble	44
43	1979	Human Experiments	Granny	44
44	1980	White Mama	Mrs. McIntyre	80
45	1980	Carlton Your Doorman	Carlton's Mother (voice)	87
46	1980	For the Love of It	Blanche	30
47	1980	Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz	Aunt Em (voice)	53
48	1981	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Miss Watson	60
49	1981	The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies	Mollie Heller	50
50	1983	Shooting Stars	Mrs. Brand	35
51	1983	Shooting Stars	Mrs Brand	35
52	1983	Testament	Rosemary Abhart	64
53	1984	It Came Upon the Midnight Clear	Mrs. Hunt	56
54	1987	Evil Town	Mildred Phelps	38
55	1993	24 Hour Psycho	Mrs. Chambers (archive footage)	40

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Marjorie	73
2	1951	I Love Lucy	Club President	79
3	1952	Cavalcade of America	Betsy Peale	35
4	1953	General Electric Theater		63
5	1953	You Are There		57
6	1953	General Electric Theater	Ginny Andrews	63
7	1953	Life With Father		0
8	1954	Summer Playhouse		0
9	1955	The Millionaire	Maggie Tremayne	50
10	1955	The Millionaire	Polly Thorne	50
11	1955	Gunsmoke	Mrs. Cumbers	66
12	1955	Gunsmoke	Anna Wilson	66
13	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
14	1955	Matinee Theater		50
15	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		45
16	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
17	1957	The Thin Man		76
18	1957	Perry Mason	Anna Houser	77
19	1957	Perry Mason	Sarette Winslow	77
20	1957	Perry Mason	Emma Bailey	77
21	1957	Perry Mason	Sarah Breel	77
22	1957	Perry Mason	Josephine Kempton	77
23	1957	Perry Mason	Henny McLeod	77
24	1957	The Real McCoys		56
25	1957	Leave It to Beaver		70
26	1957	Colt .45	Frances Benedict	50
27	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Mrs. Walker	69
28	1958	The Texan		55
29	1958	Lawman		56
30	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Lillian	63
31	1959	The Twilight Zone	Secretary (uncredited)	84
32	1959	Johnny Ringo	Mamie Murphy	57
33	1959	Dennis the Menace		65
34	1959	Bourbon Street Beat		50
35	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Penelope Hobart	57
36	1960	Johnny Midnight		0
37	1960	Pete and Gladys		65
38	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Tessie	62
39	1960	My Three Sons		65
40	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Annabelle Silby	76
41	1961	The Americans		60
42	1961	Dr. Kildare	Mrs. Parker	55
43	1961	Hazel		68
44	1961	Father of the Bride	Doris Dunston	100
45	1962	The Beverly Hillbillies		69
46	1963	Burke's Law	Amanda	60
47	1963	Petticoat Junction	Adelaide Keane	58
48	1963	Mr. Novak	Mrs. Grange	65
49	1963	Petticoat Junction	Mary Alice Perkins	58
50	1963	Petticoat Junction	Henrietta Greene	58
51	1964	The Munsters	Mrs. Morton	79
52	1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Mama	78
53	1966	Pistols 'n' Petticoats		75
54	1967	The Second Hundred Years		60
55	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
56	1967	Mannix		67
57	1968	Julia		60
58	1968	Julia	Hannah Yarby	60
59	1968	Adam-12	Iris Kelly	70
60	1968	Adam-12	Mary O'Ryan	70
61	1969	Medical Center		61
62	1970	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Bella Swann (as Lorene Tuttle)	75
63	1972	The Rookies		68
64	1973	Adam's Rib		50
65	1974	Little House on the Prairie		79
66	1974	Police Woman		63
67	1975	Switch	Mary Beame	67
68	1975	Switch	Rose	67
69	1976	Alice		71
70	1976	Charlie's Angels	Mrs. Machlin	67
71	1978	Fantasy Island	Mary Emery	64
72	1979	Hart to Hart		68
73	1979	Trapper John, M.D.		65
74	1981	Dynasty		65
75	1982	Matt Houston		62
76	1982	Voyagers!		75
77	1982	St. Elsewhere		55
78	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Agnes Cochran	75
79	1984	Crazy like a Fox		71
80	1985	Amazing Stories	Harriet Wendse	75

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