Lurene Tuttle

Known For	Acting
Birthday	Aug 20, 1907
Died	May 28, 1986 (78)
Birthplace	Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
Popularity	0.5 (history)
Updated	Dec 19, 2024 (Update)
Entry Date	Apr 13, 2024
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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.

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Filmography

24 Hour Psycho

1993

as Mrs. Chambers (archive footage)

Evil Town

1987

as Mildred Phelps

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

1984

as Mrs. Hunt

Shooting Stars

1983

as Mrs Brand

Testament

1983

as Rosemary Abhart

Shooting Stars

1983

as Mrs. Brand

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1981

as Miss Watson

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

1981

as Mollie Heller

Carlton Your Doorman

1980

as Carlton's Mother (voice)

Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz

1980

as Aunt Em (voice)

White Mama

1980

as Mrs. McIntyre

For the Love of It

1980

as Blanche

Human Experiments

1979

as Granny

Parts: The Clonus Horror

1979

as Anna Noble

The Manitou

1978

as Mrs. Herz

Final Chapter: Walking Tall

1977

as Grandma

Law and Order

1976

as Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.

Walking Tall Part II

1975

as Grandma Pusser

Mrs. Sundance

1974

as Mrs. Lee

Down and Dirty Duck

1974

as Duck's Mother (voice)

Live Again, Die Again

1974

as Betty Simpson

Walking Tall

1973

as Grandma

The Fortune Cookie

1966

as Mother Hinkle

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

1966

as Mrs. Natalie Miller

The Restless Ones

1965

as David's Grandmother

Nightmare in the Sun

1965

as Gideon's wife

Critic's Choice

1963

as Mother in "Sisters Three"

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

1960

as Ma Barker

Psycho

1960

as Mrs. Chambers

The Unchained Goddess

1958

as Meteora the Goddess of Weather

Untamed Youth

1957

as Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp

Slander

1957

as Mrs. Doyle

Sweet Smell of Success

1957

as Loretta Bartha (uncredited)

Sincerely Yours

1955

as Mrs. McGinley

The Glass Slipper

1955

as Cousin Loulou

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

1953

as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer

Niagara

1953

as Mrs. Kettering

Never Wave at a WAC

1953

as Capt. Murchinson, Company CO

Give a Girl a Break

1953

as Mrs. Doolittle

Three Lives

1953

as Mrs. Armstrong

Room for One More

1952

as Miss Kenyon

Don't Bother to Knock

1952

as Ruth Jones

Tomorrow Is Another Day

1951

as Mrs. Dawson

Goodbye, My Fancy

1951

as Ellen Griswold

The Whip Hand

1951

as Molly Loomis

A Life of Her Own

1950

as Secretary (uncredited)

Homecoming

1948

as Miss Stoker

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

1948

as Mary

Macbeth

1948

as Gentlewoman / The Three

Heaven Only Knows

1947

as Mrs. O'Donnell

Tom, Dick and Harry

1941

as Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)

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Julia

as Hannah Yarby

Episodes: 86

First Aired: Sep 17, 1968

Father of the Bride

as Doris Dunston

Episodes: 34

First Aired: Sep 29, 1961

The Andy Griffith Show

as Annabelle Silby

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Oct 03, 1960

Murder, She Wrote

as Agnes Cochran

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1984

Burke's Law

as Amanda

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1963

I Dream of Jeannie

as Mama

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 18, 1965

The Munsters

as Mrs. Morton

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1964

I Love Lucy

as Club President

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 15, 1951

Petticoat Junction

as Adelaide Keane

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1963

Charlie's Angels

as Mrs. Machlin

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 22, 1976

Gunsmoke

as Mrs. Cumbers

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1955

Perry Mason

as Anna Houser

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

The Twilight Zone

as Secretary (uncredited)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1959

Switch

as Mary Beame

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 09, 1975

The Millionaire

as Maggie Tremayne

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 19, 1955

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Marjorie

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1951

Adventures in Paradise

as Penelope Hobart

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1959

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Mrs. Walker

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1958

Mr. Novak

as Mrs. Grange

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1963

Cavalcade of America

as Betsy Peale

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 1952

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

as Bella Swann (as Lorene Tuttle)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1970

Johnny Ringo

as Mamie Murphy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1959

Dr. Kildare

as Mrs. Parker

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 27, 1961

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Lillian

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1959

Switch

as Rose

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 09, 1975

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as Tessie

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 19, 1960

Amazing Stories

as Harriet Wendse

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 29, 1985

Adam-12

as Iris Kelly

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1968

Petticoat Junction

as Mary Alice Perkins

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1963

Gunsmoke

as Anna Wilson

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 10, 1955

General Electric Theater

as Ginny Andrews

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 01, 1953

The Millionaire

as Polly Thorne

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 19, 1955

Adam-12

as Mary O'Ryan

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1968

Petticoat Junction

as Henrietta Greene

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1963

Perry Mason

as Sarette Winslow

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

Perry Mason

as Emma Bailey

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

Perry Mason

as Sarah Breel

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

Perry Mason

as Josephine Kempton

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

Perry Mason

as Henny McLeod

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 1957

Colt .45

as Frances Benedict

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 18, 1957

Fantasy Island

as Mary Emery

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 28, 1978

Life With Father

Episodes: 27

First Aired: Nov 22, 1953

Julia

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Sep 17, 1968

Trapper John, M.D.

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 23, 1979

Little House on the Prairie

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 11, 1974

Dynasty

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 12, 1981

Leave It to Beaver

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Oct 04, 1957

The Real McCoys

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Oct 03, 1957

Pete and Gladys

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 19, 1960

Matinee Theater

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Oct 31, 1955

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 07, 1956

Johnny Midnight

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 03, 1960

St. Elsewhere

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 26, 1982

Alice

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 31, 1976

The Rookies

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 11, 1972

Bourbon Street Beat

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1959

My Three Sons

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 29, 1960

The Beverly Hillbillies

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 26, 1962

Mannix

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 1967

Medical Center

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 24, 1969

Hart to Hart

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 22, 1979

General Electric Theater

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 01, 1953

Voyagers!

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 03, 1982

Crazy like a Fox

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 30, 1984

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 17, 1966

Dennis the Menace

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 04, 1959

Have Gun, Will Travel

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1957

Police Woman

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 13, 1974

The Thin Man

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 20, 1957

Matt Houston

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 26, 1982

Hazel

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 28, 1961

Judd for the Defense

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 08, 1967

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1955

You Are There

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 01, 1953

The Second Hundred Years

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1967

Lawman

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1958

The Texan

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 29, 1958

Summer Playhouse

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 06, 1954

The Americans

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 23, 1961

Adam's Rib

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1973

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