Lurene Tuttle

Acting August 20, 1907 (78 years old) May 28, 1986 Pleasant 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.

Lurene Tuttle

Biography

Movies 56

Psycho

Sweet Smell of Success

Walking Tall

The Fortune Cookie

Don't Bother to Knock

Testament

Niagara

Walking Tall Part II

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Room for One More

The Manitou

Stand Up and Cheer!

Final Chapter: Walking Tall

Macbeth

Parts: The Clonus Horror

A Life of Her Own

Tom, Dick and Harry

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

The Glass Slipper

Nightmare in the Sun

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Slander

Critic's Choice

Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz

Give a Girl a Break

Homecoming

Law and Order

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Sincerely Yours

Never Wave at a WAC

The Crash of Flight 401

Human Experiments

Down and Dirty Duck

Tomorrow Is Another Day

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

Live Again, Die Again

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

Goodbye, My Fancy

Untamed Youth

Heaven Only Knows

Evil Town

The Restless Ones

White Mama

Hello Mother, Goodbye!

For the Love of It

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars

Dr. Shagetz

Mrs. Sundance

Carlton Your Doorman

The Unchained Goddess

The Whip Hand

Three Lives

Sadie Hawkins Day

Down and Dirty Duck

TV Shows 84

Murder, She Wrote

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

The Andy Griffith Show

The Love Boat

Matinee Theater

Dynasty

Little House on the Prairie

Mannix

Charlie's Angels

The Twilight Zone

Adam-12

Adam-12

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Beverly Hillbillies

My Three Sons