
Lurene Tuttle
Born August 20, 1907 · 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Psycho

Walking Tall

Macbeth

Niagara

Sweet Smell of Success

The Manitou

Don't Bother to Knock

The Fortune Cookie

Testament

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Stand Up and Cheer!

Slander

Room for One More

Final Chapter: Walking Tall

Human Experiments

Walking Tall Part II

Heaven Only Knows

Down and Dirty Duck

Hello Mother, Goodbye!

Give a Girl a Break

Nightmare in the Sun

The Glass Slipper

Homecoming

Goodbye, My Fancy

Parts: The Clonus Horror

A Life of Her Own

The Crash of Flight 401

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

Sincerely Yours

Tomorrow Is Another Day

Critic's Choice

The Whip Hand

Live Again, Die Again

Evil Town

Never Wave at a WAC

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Tom, Dick and Harry

White Mama

Untamed Youth

Carlton Your Doorman

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

Law and Order

Shooting Stars

For the Love of It

Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz

Sadie Hawkins Day

Dr. Shagetz

The Restless Ones

Mrs. Sundance
TV Shows

Little House on the Prairie

The Andy Griffith Show

Matinee Theater

Dynasty

The Twilight Zone

Fantasy Island

Have Gun, Will Travel

St. Elsewhere

Adam-12

Mannix

Charlie's Angels

The Beverly Hillbillies

Hart to Hart

Alice

My Three Sons

I Dream of Jeannie

Dr. Kildare

Leave It to Beaver

Petticoat Junction

Gunsmoke

Burke's Law

Wanted: Dead or Alive

I Love Lucy

Lawman

Medical Center

Police Woman

Amazing Stories

The Partridge Family

The Munsters

Trapper John, M.D.

American Playhouse

Adventures in Paradise

The Rookies

Switch

The Texan

Matt Houston

The Danny Thomas Show

Crazy like a Fox

The Real McCoys

Hazel

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The Millionaire

Dennis the Menace

Julia

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Mr. Novak

Cavalcade of America

Bourbon Street Beat

Johnny Ringo

Judd, for the Defense

















