Lurene Tuttle
54 movies · 71 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 20, 1907
- Died
- May 28, 1986 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
- Also known as
- Lorene Tuttle
Biography
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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.
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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."
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Known for
Lurene Tuttle: movies and TV shows
Acting (125)
- 1987 Evil Town
as Mildred Phelps
- 1985
- 1984
- 1984 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Mrs. Hunt
- 1984
- 1983 Testament
as Rosemary Abhart
- 1983 Shooting Stars
as Mrs. Brand / Mrs Brand
- 1982
- 1982
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981 The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
as Mollie Heller
- 1981 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Miss Watson
- 1981
- 1980 Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
as Aunt Em (voice)
- 1980 For the Love of It
as Blanche
- 1980 Carlton Your Doorman
as Carlton's Mother (voice)
- 1980 White Mama
as Mrs. McIntyre
- 1979 Human Experiments
as Granny
- 1979
- 1979
- 1979 Parts: The Clonus Horror
as Anna Noble
- 1978
- 1978 The Manitou
as Mrs. Herz
- 1978
- 1977
- 1977 Final Chapter: Walking Tall
as Grandma
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976 Law and Order
as Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.
- 1975 Walking Tall Part II
as Grandma Pusser
- 1975
- 1975 Dr. Shagetz
as Mildred Phelps
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974 Down and Dirty Duck
as Duck's Mother (voice)
- 1974 Hello Mother, Goodbye!
as Leona
- 1974 Live Again, Die Again
as Betty Simpson
- 1974 Mrs. Sundance
as Mrs. Lee
- 1973
- 1973 Walking Tall
as Grandma
- 1972
- 1970
- 1970
- 1969
- 1968
- 1968
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966 The Fortune Cookie
as Mother Hinkle
- 1966
- 1966 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
as Mrs. Natalie Miller
- 1965 The Restless Ones
as David's Grandmother
- 1965
- 1965 Nightmare in the Sun
as Gideon's wife
- 1964
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963 Critic's Choice
as Mother in Sisters Three
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Psycho
as Mrs. Chambers
- 1960 Ma Barker's Killer Brood
as Ma Barker
- 1960
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 The Unchained Goddess
as Meteora the Goddess of Weather
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 Perry Mason · TV
as Anna Houser / Sarette Winslow / Emma Bailey / Sarah Breel / Josephine Kempton / Henny McLeod · 6 episodes
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 Sweet Smell of Success
as Loretta Bartha (uncredited)
- 1957 Untamed Youth
as Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp
- 1957 Slander
as Mrs. Doyle
- 1956
- 1955 Sincerely Yours
as Mrs. McGinley
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 The Glass Slipper
as Cousin Loulou
- 1955
- 1954
- 1953
- 1953 Give a Girl a Break
as Mrs. Doolittle
- 1953
- 1953 Three Lives
as Mrs. Armstrong
- 1953 The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer
- 1953
- 1953
- 1953 Niagara
as Mrs. Kettering
- 1953 Never Wave at a WAC
as Murchinson
- 1952
- 1952 Don't Bother to Knock
as Ruth Jones
- 1952 Room for One More
as Miss Kenyon
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951 The Whip Hand
as Molly Loomis
- 1951 Tomorrow Is Another Day
as Mrs. Dawson
- 1951 Goodbye, My Fancy
as Ellen Griswold
- 1950 A Life of Her Own
as Secretary (uncredited)
- 1948 Macbeth
as Gentlewoman / The Three
- 1948 Homecoming
as Miss Stoker
- 1948
- 1947 Heaven Only Knows
as Mrs. O'Donnell
- 1944 Sadie Hawkins Day
as Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)
- 1941 Tom, Dick and Harry
as Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)
- 1934 Stand Up and Cheer!
as Stenographer