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