
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
Movies & web series
Life With Father
★ 10.0View details →
Life With Father
1953 · Series
★ 9.5View details →
Father of the Bride
1961 · Series
★ 8.3View details →
The Crash of Flight 401
1978 · Movie
★ 8.5View details →
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
★ 8.3View details →
Carlton Your Doorman
1980 · Movie
★ 8.4View details →
Psycho
1960 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
White Mama
1980 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
Law and Order
1976 · Movie
★ 7.9View details →
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Series
★ 7.9View details →
The Munsters
1964 · Series
★ 7.8View details →
Live Again, Die Again
1974 · Movie
★ 7.8View details →
I Dream of Jeannie
1965 · Series
★ 7.9View details →
I Love Lucy
1951 · Series
★ 7.7View details →
Mrs. Sundance
1974 · Movie
★ 7.5View details →
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Series
★ 7.7View details →
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · Series
★ 7.5View details →
Voyagers!
1982 · Series
★ 7.6View details →
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 · Series
★ 7.5View details →
Amazing Stories
1985 · Series
★ 7.7View details →
Perry Mason
1957 · Series
★ 7.6View details →
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966 · Series
★ 7.5View details →
Adam's Rib
1973 · Series
★ 7.6View details →
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Series
★ 7.6View details →
Sweet Smell of Success
1957 · Movie
★ 7.6View details →
The Thin Man
1957 · Series
★ 7.3View details →
Crazy like a Fox
1984 · Series
Three Lives
★ 7.5View details →
Three Lives
1953 · Movie
★ 7.3View details →
Mr. Novak
1963 · Series
★ 7.5View details →
Sadie Hawkins Day
1944 · Movie
★ 7.3View details →
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Series
★ 7.1View details →
Alice
1976 · Series
★ 7.2View details →
The Fortune Cookie
1966 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1981 · Movie
★ 7.1View details →
Adam-12
1968 · Series
★ 7.3View details →
Macbeth
1948 · Movie
★ 7.2View details →
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
★ 6.9View details →
Hart to Hart
1979 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Johnny Midnight
1960 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Series
★ 6.9View details →
The Partridge Family
1970 · Series
The Unchained Goddess
★ 7.0View details →
The Unchained Goddess
1958 · Movie
★ 6.9View details →
The Rookies
1972 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Leave It to Beaver
1957 · Series
★ 6.9View details →
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Homecoming
1948 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Series
★ 7.0View details →
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
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1975 · Series