Lurene Tuttle

Known for ActingBorn 1907-08-20Died 1986-05-28Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA

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.Read more

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Life With Father

Father of the Bride

The Crash of Flight 401

The Twilight Zone

Carlton Your Doorman

Psycho

White Mama

Law and Order

Little House on the Prairie

The Munsters

Live Again, Die Again

I Dream of Jeannie

I Love Lucy

Mrs. Sundance

Murder, She Wrote

Judd, for the Defense

Voyagers!

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Amazing Stories

Perry Mason

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

Adam's Rib

The Andy Griffith Show

Sweet Smell of Success

The Thin Man

Crazy like a Fox

Three Lives

Mr. Novak

Sadie Hawkins Day

Have Gun, Will Travel

Alice

The Fortune Cookie

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adam-12

Macbeth

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Hart to Hart

Johnny Midnight

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Partridge Family

The Unchained Goddess

The Rookies

Leave It to Beaver

The Beverly Hillbillies

Homecoming

Charlie's Angels

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

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