Lurene Tuttle
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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."
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Known for
Matinee Theater
I Love Lucy
Club President
Leave It to Beaver
The Andy Griffith Show
Annabelle Silby
Dr. Kildare
Mrs. Parker
Charlie's Angels
Mrs. Machlin
Dennis the Menace
Mannix
Little House on the Prairie
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Tessie
Amazing Stories
Harriet Wendse
The Rookies
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Lillian
Trapper John, M.D.
Murder, She Wrote
Agnes Cochran
Have Gun, Will Travel
Medical Center
Police Woman
Judd for the Defense
Bourbon Street Beat
Perry Mason
Anna Houser
Perry Mason
Sarette Winslow
Perry Mason
Emma Bailey
Perry Mason
Sarah Breel
Perry Mason
Josephine Kempton
Perry Mason
Henny McLeod
The Twilight Zone
Secretary (uncredited)
The Texan
I Dream of Jeannie
Mama
Alice
Adventures in Paradise
Penelope Hobart
Hazel
Hart to Hart
The Real McCoys
Pete and Gladys
Crazy like a Fox
Johnny Ringo
Mamie Murphy
Burke's Law
Amanda
Fantasy Island
Mary Emery
Matt Houston
Switch
Mary Beame
Switch
Rose
The Thin Man
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Mrs. Walker
The Munsters
Mrs. Morton
Johnny Midnight
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bella Swann (as Lorene Tuttle)
Dynasty
St. Elsewhere
Mr. Novak
Mrs. Grange
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Adam-12
Iris Kelly
Adam-12
Mary O'Ryan
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Colt .45
Frances Benedict
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
The Millionaire
Maggie Tremayne
The Millionaire
Polly Thorne
Life With Father
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Americans
Lawman
Julia
Julia
Hannah Yarby
My Three Sons
Petticoat Junction
Adelaide Keane
Petticoat Junction
Mary Alice Perkins
Petticoat Junction
Henrietta Greene
Gunsmoke
Mrs. Cumbers
Gunsmoke
Anna Wilson
You Are There
Father of the Bride
Doris Dunston
Psycho
Mrs. Chambers
Cavalcade of America
Betsy Peale
Voyagers!
Adam's Rib
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
Ginny Andrews
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Marjorie
The Second Hundred Years
Niagara
Mrs. Kettering
Mrs. Sundance
Mrs. Lee
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
Ma Barker
Sweet Smell of Success
Loretta Bartha (uncredited)
Walking Tall
Grandma
Macbeth
Gentlewoman / The Three
Summer Playhouse
Dr. Shagetz
Mildred Phelps
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Mary
Don't Bother to Knock
Ruth Jones
The Fortune Cookie
Mother Hinkle
Testament
Rosemary Abhart
The Manitou
Mrs. Herz
The Crash of Flight 401
Give a Girl a Break
Mrs. Doolittle
The Glass Slipper
Cousin Loulou
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
Mrs. Eleanor Hammer
Room for One More
Miss Kenyon
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Mrs. Natalie Miller
Goodbye, My Fancy
Ellen Griswold
Critic's Choice
Mother in "Sisters Three"
Homecoming
Miss Stoker
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
Mollie Heller
Down and Dirty Duck
Duck's Mother (voice)
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Mrs. Dawson
Never Wave at a WAC
Capt. Murchinson, Company CO
Evil Town
Mildred Phelps
Human Experiments
Granny
Untamed Youth
Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp
24 Hour Psycho
Mrs. Chambers (archive footage)
Tom, Dick and Harry
Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)
Walking Tall Part II
Grandma Pusser
Parts: The Clonus Horror
Anna Noble
The Restless Ones
David's Grandmother
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
Grandma
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Miss Watson
Slander
Mrs. Doyle
For the Love of It
Blanche
Shooting Stars
Mrs. Brand
Shooting Stars
Mrs Brand
Nightmare in the Sun
Gideon's wife
A Life of Her Own
Secretary (uncredited)
Law and Order
Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.
Sincerely Yours
Mrs. McGinley
Stand Up and Cheer!
Stenographer
Three Lives
Mrs. Armstrong
White Mama
Mrs. McIntyre
The Unchained Goddess
Meteora the Goddess of Weather
The Whip Hand
Molly Loomis
Heaven Only Knows
Mrs. O'Donnell
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Mrs. Hunt
Live Again, Die Again
Betty Simpson
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
Aunt Em (voice)
Carlton Your Doorman
Carlton's Mother (voice)
Sadie Hawkins Day
Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)