1907-08-20 Pleasant 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.
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24 Hour Psycho | Mrs. Chambers (archive footage) | 1993-01-01 |
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Evil Town | Mildred Phelps | 1987-06-02 |
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Shooting Stars | Mrs. Brand | 1983-07-28 |
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Testament | Rosemary Abhart | 1983-11-04 |
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Shooting Stars | Mrs Brand | 1983-07-28 |
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The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies | Mollie Heller | 1981-10-06 |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Miss Watson | 1981-07-09 |
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Carlton Your Doorman | Carlton's Mother (voice) | 1980-05-21 |
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White Mama | Mrs. McIntyre | 1980-03-05 |
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For the Love of It | Blanche | 1980-09-26 |
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Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz | Aunt Em (voice) | 1980-11-25 |
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Human Experiments | Granny | 1979-10-19 |
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Parts: The Clonus Horror | Anna Noble | 1979-08-01 |
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The Manitou | Mrs. Herz | 1978-04-28 |
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The Crash of Flight 401 | 1978-10-29 | |
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall | Grandma | 1977-08-31 |
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Law and Order | Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr. | 1976-05-06 |
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Walking Tall Part II | Grandma Pusser | 1975-09-28 |
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Dr. Shagetz | Mildred Phelps | 1975-01-01 |
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Live Again, Die Again | Betty Simpson | 1974-02-16 |
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Mrs. Sundance | Mrs. Lee | 1974-01-15 |
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Down and Dirty Duck | Duck's Mother (voice) | 1974-07-01 |
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Walking Tall | Grandma | 1973-02-22 |
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The Ghost & Mr. Chicken | Mrs. Natalie Miller | 1966-01-20 |
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The Fortune Cookie | Mother Hinkle | 1966-10-19 |
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Nightmare in the Sun | Gideon's wife | 1965-03-06 |
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The Restless Ones | David's Grandmother | 1965-12-02 |
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Critic's Choice | Mother in "Sisters Three" | 1963-02-24 |
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Psycho | Mrs. Chambers | 1960-06-22 |
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Ma Barker's Killer Brood | Ma Barker | 1960-02-03 |
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The Unchained Goddess | Meteora the Goddess of Weather | 1958-02-12 |
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Untamed Youth | Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp | 1957-03-15 |
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Slander | Mrs. Doyle | 1957-01-18 |
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Sweet Smell of Success | Loretta Bartha (uncredited) | 1957-07-04 |
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The Glass Slipper | Cousin Loulou | 1955-03-24 |
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Sincerely Yours | Mrs. McGinley | 1955-11-05 |
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Three Lives | Mrs. Armstrong | 1953-09-17 |
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Niagara | Mrs. Kettering | 1953-01-26 |
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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis | Mrs. Eleanor Hammer | 1953-08-14 |
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Give a Girl a Break | Mrs. Doolittle | 1953-11-13 |
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Never Wave at a WAC | Capt. Murchinson, Company CO | 1953-01-28 |
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Don't Bother to Knock | Ruth Jones | 1952-07-18 |
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Room for One More | Miss Kenyon | 1952-01-10 |
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The Whip Hand | Molly Loomis | 1951-10-01 |
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Goodbye, My Fancy | Ellen Griswold | 1951-05-19 |
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Tomorrow Is Another Day | Mrs. Dawson | 1951-08-08 |
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A Life of Her Own | Secretary (uncredited) | 1950-09-01 |
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Mary | 1948-03-25 |
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Macbeth | Gentlewoman / The Three | 1948-10-01 |
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Homecoming | Miss Stoker | 1948-04-29 |
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Heaven Only Knows | Mrs. O'Donnell | 1947-09-12 |
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Tom, Dick and Harry | Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited) | 1941-06-13 |
