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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 20, 1907
Died
May 28, 1986
Place of Birth
Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
- Lorene Tuttle
Lurene Tuttle
1.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
4.0
Mrs. Chambers (archive footage)
24 Hour Psycho
1993
3.8
Mildred Phelps
Evil Town
1987
7.4
Harriet Wendse
Amazing Stories
1985
7.1
Crazy like a Fox
1984
5.6
Mrs. Hunt
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984
7.5
Agnes Cochran
Murder, She Wrote
1984
6.3
Rosemary Abhart
Testament
1983
3.5
Mrs. Brand
Shooting Stars
1983
3.5
Mrs Brand
Shooting Stars
1983
5.6
Margaret Harper - Ellen's mother
St. Elsewhere
1982
Credits
24 Hour Psycho
as Mrs. Chambers (archive footage)
1993
4.0
Evil Town
as Mildred Phelps
1987
3.8
Amazing Stories
as Harriet Wendse
1985
7.4
Crazy like a Fox
1984
7.1
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Mrs. Hunt
1984
5.6
Murder, She Wrote
as Agnes Cochran
1984
7.5
Testament
as Rosemary Abhart
1983
6.3
Shooting Stars
as Mrs. Brand
1983
3.5
Shooting Stars
as Mrs Brand
1983
3.5
St. Elsewhere
as Margaret Harper - Ellen's mother
1982
5.6
Voyagers!
1982
7.5
Matt Houston
1982
6.2
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
as Mollie Heller
1981
4.8
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Miss Watson
1981
6.0
Dynasty
1981
6.4
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
as Aunt Em (voice)
1980
5.3
For the Love of It
as Blanche
1980
3.0
Carlton Your Doorman
as Carlton's Mother (voice)
1980
8.7
White Mama
as Mrs. McIntyre
1980
8.0
Human Experiments
as Granny
1979
4.2
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.5
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
Parts: The Clonus Horror
as Anna Noble
1979
4.4
The Crash of Flight 401
1978
7.5
The Manitou
as Mrs. Herz
1978
5.4
Fantasy Island
as Mary Emery
1978
6.4
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
as Grandma
1977
5.1
Charlie's Angels
as Mrs. Machlin
1976
6.7
Alice
1976
7.1
Law and Order
as Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.
1976
0.0
Walking Tall Part II
as Grandma Pusser
1975
5.3
Switch
as Mary Beame
1975
6.7
Switch
as Rose
1975
6.7
Dr. Shagetz
as Mildred Phelps
1975
0.0
Police Woman
1974
6.2
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.9
Down and Dirty Duck
as Duck's Mother (voice)
1974
4.6
Live Again, Die Again
as Betty Simpson
1974
8.0
Mrs. Sundance
as Mrs. Lee
1974
7.5
Adam's Rib
1973
5.0
Walking Tall
as Grandma
1973
6.6
The Rookies
1972
6.8
The Partridge Family
as Mrs. Sharp
1970
6.8
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
as Bella Swann (as Lorene Tuttle)
1970
7.6
Medical Center
1969
6.1
Adam-12
as Iris Kelly
1968
7.0
Adam-12
as Mary O'Ryan
1968
7.0
Julia
1968
6.0
Julia
as Hannah Yarby
1968
6.0
Mannix
1967
6.7
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
The Second Hundred Years
as Annie
1967
6.3
The Fortune Cookie
as Mother Hinkle
1966
7.2
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
7.5
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
as Mrs. Natalie Miller
1966
6.7
The Restless Ones
as David's Grandmother
1965
4.2
I Dream of Jeannie
as Mama
1965
7.8
Nightmare in the Sun
as Gideon's wife
1965
2.2
The Munsters
as Mrs. Morton
1964
7.9
Petticoat Junction
as Adelaide Keane
1963
5.7
Petticoat Junction
as Mary Alice Perkins
1963
5.7
Petticoat Junction
as Henrietta Greene
1963
5.7
Mr. Novak
as Mrs. Grange
1963
6.5
Burke's Law
as Amanda
1963
6.0
Critic's Choice
as Mother in "Sisters Three"
1963
5.6
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
6.9
Father of the Bride
as Doris Dunston
1961
10.0
Hazel
1961
6.8
Dr. Kildare
as Mrs. Parker
1961
5.5
The Americans
1961
6.0
The Andy Griffith Show
as Annabelle Silby
1960
7.6
My Three Sons
1960
6.5
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Tessie
1960
6.2
Pete and Gladys
1960
6.0
Psycho
as Mrs. Chambers
1960
8.4
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
as Ma Barker
1960
5.9
Johnny Midnight
1960
0.0
Adventures in Paradise
as Penelope Hobart
1959
5.7
Bourbon Street Beat
1959
5.0
Dennis the Menace
1959
6.5
The Twilight Zone
as Secretary (uncredited)
1959
8.5
Johnny Ringo
as Mamie Murphy
1959
5.7
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Lillian
1959
6.3
Lawman
1958
5.6
The Texan
1958
5.5
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Mrs. Walker
1958
6.8
🎬
The Unchained Goddess
as Meteora the Goddess of Weather
1958
7.0
Colt .45
as Frances Benedict
1957
5.0
Leave It to Beaver
1957
6.9
The Real McCoys
1957
5.6
Perry Mason
as Anna Houser
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Sarette Winslow
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Emma Bailey
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Sarah Breel
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Josephine Kempton
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Henny McLeod
1957
7.7
The Thin Man
1957
7.5
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Sweet Smell of Success
as Loretta Bartha (uncredited)
1957
7.6
Untamed Youth
as Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp
1957
4.0
Slander
as Mrs. Doyle
1957
6.3
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
5.0
Sincerely Yours
as Mrs. McGinley
1955
5.8
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
Gunsmoke
as Mrs. Cumbers
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Anna Wilson
1955
6.6
The Glass Slipper
as Cousin Loulou
1955
6.1
The Millionaire
as Maggie Tremayne
1955
5.0
The Millionaire
as Polly Thorne
1955
5.0
🎬
Summer Playhouse
1954
0.0
🎬
Life With Father
1953
0.0
Give a Girl a Break
as Mrs. Doolittle
1953
5.3
🎬
Three Lives
as Mrs. Armstrong
1953
0.0
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer
1953
5.5
You Are There
1953
5.7
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Ginny Andrews
1953
6.4
Never Wave at a WAC
as Capt. Murchinson, Company CO
1953
4.6
Niagara
as Mrs. Kettering
1953
6.8
Cavalcade of America
as Betsy Peale
1952
3.5
Don't Bother to Knock
as Ruth Jones
1952
6.6
Room for One More
as Miss Kenyon
1952
6.5
I Love Lucy
as Club President
1951
7.9
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Marjorie
1951
7.2
The Whip Hand
as Molly Loomis
1951
5.6
Tomorrow Is Another Day
as Mrs. Dawson
1951
6.5
Goodbye, My Fancy
as Ellen Griswold
1951
5.9
A Life of Her Own
as Secretary (uncredited)
1950
5.1
Macbeth
as Gentlewoman / The Three
1948
7.2
Homecoming
as Miss Stoker
1948
7.0
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Mary
1948
7.0
Heaven Only Knows
as Mrs. O'Donnell
1947
6.0
Sadie Hawkins Day
as Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)
1944
7.0
Tom, Dick and Harry
as Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)
1941
5.7
Stand Up and Cheer!
as Stenographer
1934
4.9