Lurene Tuttle
Age: 78 | From: Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1907-08-20 09:42:43
Death: 1986-05-28 09:42:43
Aliases: Lorene Tuttle
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 35
TV Involvements: 26
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Dr. Kildare
(1961) Mrs. Parker
Cavalcade of America
(1952) Betsy Peale
Switch
(1975) Rose
Adventures in Paradise
(1959) Penelope Hobart
The Twilight Zone
(1959) Secretary (uncredited)
The Millionaire
(1955) Polly Thorne
Perry Mason
(1957) Henny McLeod
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
(1959) LillianActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Mrs. Chambers (archive footage) | |
| 1987 | Mildred Phelps | |
| 1985 | Harriet Wendse | |
| 1984 | N/A | |
| Agnes Cochran | ||
| 1983 | Rosemary Abhart | |
| Mrs Brand | ||
| Mrs. Brand | ||
| 1982 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1981 | Mollie Heller | |
| Miss Watson | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1980 | Aunt Em (voice) | |
| Blanche | ||
| Carlton's Mother (voice) | ||
| Mrs. McIntyre | ||
| 1979 | Granny | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Anna Noble | ||
| 1978 | N/A | |
| Mrs. Herz | ||
| 1977 | Grandma | |
| 1976 | Mrs. Machlin | |
| N/A | ||
| Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr. | ||
| 1975 | Grandma Pusser | |
| Mary Beame | ||
| Rose | ||
| Mildred Phelps | ||
| 1974 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Duck's Mother (voice) | ||
| Betty Simpson | ||
| Mrs. Lee | ||
| 1973 | N/A | |
| Grandma | ||
| 1972 | N/A | |
| 1970 | Bella Swann (as Lorene Tuttle) | |
| 1969 | N/A | |
| 1968 | Mary O'Ryan | |
| Iris Kelly | ||
| Hannah Yarby | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1966 | Mother Hinkle | |
| N/A | ||
| Mrs. Natalie Miller | ||
| 1965 | David's Grandmother | |
| Mama | ||
| Gideon's wife | ||
| 1964 | Mrs. Morton | |
| 1963 | Mrs. Grange | |
| Henrietta Greene | ||
| Adelaide Keane | ||
| Mary Alice Perkins | ||
| Amanda | ||
| Mother in "Sisters Three" | ||
| 1962 | N/A | |
| 1961 | Doris Dunston | |
| N/A | ||
| Mrs. Parker | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1960 | Annabelle Silby | |
| N/A | ||
| Tessie | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mrs. Chambers | ||
| Ma Barker | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| Penelope Hobart | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mamie Murphy | ||
| Secretary (uncredited) | ||
| Lillian | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Mrs. Walker | ||
| Meteora the Goddess of Weather | ||
| 1957 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Sarette Winslow | ||
| Sarah Breel | ||
| Anna Houser | ||
| Henny McLeod | ||
| Josephine Kempton | ||
| Emma Bailey | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Loretta Bartha (uncredited) | ||
| Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp | ||
| Mrs. Doyle | ||
| 1956 | N/A | |
| 1955 | Mrs. McGinley | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Anna Wilson | ||
| Mrs. Cumbers | ||
| Cousin Loulou | ||
| Maggie Tremayne | ||
| Polly Thorne | ||
| 1954 | N/A | |
| 1953 | N/A | |
| Mrs. Doolittle | ||
| Mrs. Armstrong | ||
| Mrs. Eleanor Hammer | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ginny Andrews | ||
| N/A | ||
| Capt. Murchinson, Company CO | ||
| Mrs. Kettering | ||
| 1952 | Betsy Peale | |
| Ruth Jones | ||
| Miss Kenyon | ||
| 1951 | Club President | |
| Marjorie | ||
| Molly Loomis | ||
| Mrs. Dawson | ||
| Ellen Griswold | ||
| 1950 | Secretary (uncredited) | |
| 1948 | Gentlewoman / The Three | |
| Miss Stoker | ||
| Mary | ||
| 1947 | Mrs. O'Donnell | |
| 1941 | Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
