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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 12, 1903
Died
June 4, 1998
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
Josephine Hutchinson
0.6 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 - June 4, 1998) was an American actress. Hutchinson was born in Seattle, Washington. Her mother, Leona Roberts, was an actress best known for her role as Mrs. Meade in Gone with the Wind. Under contract with Warner Bros., Hutchinson went to Hollywood in 1934, debuting in Happiness Ahead. She was featured on the cover of Film Weekly on August 23, 1935 and appeared in The Story of Louis Pasteur in 1936. At Universal, she played Elsa von Frankenstein in one of her more memorable roles alongside actor Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein (1939). She later played Mrs. Townsend in North by Northwest (1959) and Love Is Better Than Ever, starring Elizabeth Taylor. Hutchinson made a number of Television appearances, including episodes of Perry Mason, The Rifleman and Little House on the Prairie. She died, aged 94, on June 4, 1998 at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in Manhattan. Her ashes were scattered near her niece’s home at Springfield, Oregon.
Known For
7.9
Little House on the Prairie
1974
5.9
The Sixth Sense
1972
7.2
Mamie Baldwin
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971
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6.5
Mrs. Tice
Travis Logan, D.A.
1971
3.0
Mrs. Angstrom
Rabbit, Run
1970
6.8
Amanda
The Partridge Family
1970
5.0
To Rome with Love
1969
4.8
Miss Lucy
Then Came Bronson
1969
6.2
The Mod Squad
1968
6.8
Millie Farrell
The Name of the Game
1968
Credits
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.9
The Sixth Sense
1972
5.9
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
as Mamie Baldwin
1971
7.2
🎬
Travis Logan, D.A.
as Mrs. Tice
1971
6.5
Rabbit, Run
as Mrs. Angstrom
1970
3.0
The Partridge Family
as Amanda
1970
6.8
To Rome with Love
1969
5.0
Then Came Bronson
as Miss Lucy
1969
4.8
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
The Name of the Game
as Millie Farrell
1968
6.8
Shadow Over Elveron
as Emily Maslan
1968
6.5
Mannix
1967
6.7
Nevada Smith
as Mrs. Elvira McCanles
1966
6.7
The F.B.I.
as Libby Jackson
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Anna Wandermere
1965
5.4
Baby the Rain Must Fall
as Mme Ewing
1965
6.1
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Mrs. Blanchard
1963
5.3
Burke's Law
as Madeline Vickers
1963
6.0
General Electric True
1962
0.0
The New Breed
as Nettie
1961
7.0
Dr. Kildare
as Amelia Blair
1961
5.5
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Betty Galloway
1960
6.2
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Widow Douglas
1960
5.8
Walk Like a Dragon
as Ma Bartlett
1960
5.0
The Twilight Zone
as Grandma
1959
8.5
Bonanza
as Martha Randolph
1959
7.5
North by Northwest
as Mrs. Townsend
1959
8.0
Rawhide
as Abigail Briggs
1959
7.2
The Rifleman
1958
7.1
Step Down to Terror
as Mrs. Walters
1958
5.6
Sing Boy Sing
as Caroline Walker
1958
6.0
Perry Mason
as Leona Walsh
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Miriam Baker
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Miss Sarah
1957
7.7
Gun for a Coward
as Madame Keough
1956
5.6
Miracle in the Rain
as Agnes Wood
1956
6.7
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
Gunsmoke
as Mrs. Crale
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Sister Ellen
1955
6.6
Many Rivers to Cross
as Mrs. Cherne
1955
6.2
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The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
as Lyddie Hampton
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as Mother
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Mama Stacey
1953
6.4
Ruby Gentry
as Letitia Gentry
1952
6.3
Love Is Better Than Ever
as Mrs. Macaboy
1952
6.1
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mother Superior
1951
7.2
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Lux Video Theatre
as Mrs. Lavery
1950
6.3
Adventure in Baltimore
as Mrs. Lilly Sheldon
1949
4.9
The Tender Years
as Emily Norris
1948
7.0
Cass Timberlane
as Lillian Drover
1947
5.5
Somewhere in the Night
as Elizabeth Conroy
1946
6.7
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
1943
5.3
Her First Beau
as Mrs. Wood
1941
5.0
Tom Brown's School Days
as Mrs. Mary Arnold
1940
7.2
My Son, My Son!
as Nellie Moscrop Essex
1940
4.0
Son of Frankenstein
as Elsa von Frankenstein
1939
6.7
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
as Dr. Mary Reynolds
1938
0.0
The Women Men Marry
as Jane Carson
1937
5.5
Mountain Justice
as Ruth Harkins
1937
5.5
I Married a Doctor
as Carol Kennicott
1936
4.7
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Marie Pasteur
1936
6.8
The Melody Lingers on
as Ann Prescott
1935
0.0
Oil for the Lamps of China
as Hester Adams Chase
1935
7.3
The Right to Live
as Stella Trent
1935
4.4
Happiness Ahead
as Joan Bradford
1934
6.0
A Little Princess
as (uncredited)
1917
5.2