Lurene Tuttle
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 20, 1907
- Died
- May 28, 1986 (aged 78)
- Place of birth
- Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
- Credits
- 126
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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.
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
Psycho
1960Movie
Mrs. Chambers
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Secretary (uncredited)
Little House on the Prairie
1974TV
Anna Simms
I Dream of Jeannie
1965TV
Mama
Sweet Smell of Success
1957Movie
Loretta Bartha (uncredited)
The Munsters
1964TV
Mrs. Morton
Filmography
Evil Town
1987Movie
Mildred Phelps
Amazing Stories
1985TV
Harriet Wendse
Crazy like a Fox
1984TV
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984Movie
Mrs. Hunt
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Agnes Cochran
Testament
1983Movie
Rosemary Abhart
Shooting Stars
1983Movie
Mrs. Brand, Mrs Brand
St. Elsewhere
1982TV
Margaret Harper - Ellen's mother
Voyagers!
1982TV
Matt Houston
1982TV
American Playhouse
1982TV
Rosemary Abhart
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
1981Movie
Mollie Heller
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1981Movie
Miss Watson
Dynasty
1981TV
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
1980Movie
Aunt Em (voice)
For the Love of It
1980Movie
Blanche
Carlton Your Doorman
1980Movie
Carlton's Mother (voice)
White Mama
1980Movie
Mrs. McIntyre
Human Experiments
1979Movie
Granny
Trapper John, M.D.
1979TV
Hart to Hart
1979TV
Parts: The Clonus Horror
1979Movie
Anna Noble
The Crash of Flight 401
1978Movie
The Manitou
1978Movie
Mrs. Herz
Fantasy Island
1978TV
Mary Emery
The Love Boat
1977TV
Lady in Black
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
1977Movie
Grandma
Charlie's Angels
1976TV
Mrs. Machlin
Alice
1976TV
Law and Order
1976Movie
Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.
Walking Tall Part II
1975Movie
Grandma Pusser
Switch
1975TV
Mary Beame, Rose
Dr. Shagetz
1975Movie
Mildred Phelps
Police Woman
1974TV
Little House on the Prairie
1974TV
Anna Simms
Down and Dirty Duck
1974Movie
Duck's Mother (Voice)
Down and Dirty Duck
1974Movie
Duck's Mother (voice)
Hello Mother, Goodbye!
1974Movie
Leona
Live Again, Die Again
1974Movie
Betty Simpson
Mrs. Sundance
1974Movie
Mrs. Lee
Adam's Rib
1973TV
Walking Tall
1973Movie
Grandma
The Rookies
1972TV
The Partridge Family
1970TV
Mrs. Sharp
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970TV
Bella Swann (as Lorene Tuttle)
Medical Center
1969TV
Adam-12
1968TV
Iris Kelly, Mary O'Ryan
Julia
1968TV
Hannah Yarby
Mannix
1967TV
Judd, for the Defense
1967TV
The Second Hundred Years
1967TV
Annie
The Fortune Cookie
1966Movie
Mother Hinkle
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966TV
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
1966Movie
Mrs. Natalie Miller
The Restless Ones
1965Movie
David's Grandmother
I Dream of Jeannie
1965TV
Mama
Nightmare in the Sun
1965Movie
Gideon's wife
The Munsters
1964TV
Mrs. Morton
Petticoat Junction
1963TV
Adelaide Keane, Mary Alice Perkins, Henrietta Greene
Mr. Novak
1963TV
Mrs. Grange
Burke's Law
1963TV
Amanda
Critic's Choice
1963Movie
Mother in Sisters Three
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962TV
Father of the Bride
1961TV
Doris Dunston
Hazel
1961TV
Dr. Kildare
1961TV
Mrs. Parker
The Americans
1961TV
The Andy Griffith Show
1960TV
Annabelle Silby
My Three Sons
1960TV
Pete and Gladys
1960TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960TV
Tessie
Psycho
1960Movie
Mrs. Chambers
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
1960Movie
Ma Barker
Johnny Midnight
1960TV
Bourbon Street Beat
1959TV
Adventures in Paradise
1959TV
Penelope Hobart
Dennis the Menace
1959TV
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Secretary (uncredited)
Johnny Ringo
1959TV
Mamie Murphy
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959TV
Lillian
Lawman
1958TV
The Texan
1958TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958TV
Mrs. Walker
The Unchained Goddess
1958Movie
Meteora the Goddess of Weather
Colt .45
1957TV
Frances Benedict
Leave It to Beaver
1957TV
The Real McCoys
1957TV
Perry Mason
1957TV
Anna Houser, Sarette Winslow, Emma Bailey, Sarah Breel, Josephine Kempton, Henny McLeod
The Thin Man
1957TV
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957TV
Sweet Smell of Success
1957Movie
Loretta Bartha (uncredited)
Untamed Youth
1957Movie
Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp
Slander
1957Movie
Mrs. Doyle
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956TV
Sincerely Yours
1955Movie
Mrs. McGinley
Matinee Theater
1955TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955TV
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Mrs. Cumbers, Anna Wilson
The Glass Slipper
1955Movie
Cousin Loulou
The Millionaire
1955TV
Maggie Tremayne, Polly Thorne
Summer Playhouse
1954TV
Life With Father
1953TV
Give a Girl a Break
1953Movie
Mrs. Doolittle
The Danny Thomas Show
1953TV
Mrs. Martin
Three Lives
1953Movie
Mrs. Armstrong
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
1953Movie
Mrs. Eleanor Hammer
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Ginny Andrews
You Are There
1953TV
Niagara
1953Movie
Mrs. Kettering
Never Wave at a WAC
1953Movie
Murchinson
Cavalcade of America
1952TV
Betsy Peale
Don't Bother to Knock
1952Movie
Ruth Jones
Room for One More
1952Movie
Miss Kenyon
I Love Lucy
1951TV
Club President
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951TV
Marjorie
The Whip Hand
1951Movie
Molly Loomis
Tomorrow Is Another Day
1951Movie
Mrs. Dawson
Goodbye, My Fancy
1951Movie
Ellen Griswold
A Life of Her Own
1950Movie
Secretary (uncredited)
Macbeth
1948Movie
Gentlewoman / The Three
Homecoming
1948Movie
Miss Stoker
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948Movie
Mary
Heaven Only Knows
1947Movie
Mrs. O'Donnell
Sadie Hawkins Day
1944Movie
Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)
Tom, Dick and Harry
1941Movie
Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934Movie
Stenographer