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Lurene Tuttle

Lurene Tuttle

Actor · 1907 – 1986 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie8.4

    Psycho

    1960 · 11K votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

    1966 · 103 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Testament

    1983 · 144 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Sweet Smell of Success

    1957 · 605 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Niagara

    1953 · 458 votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Fortune Cookie

    1966 · 361 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Walking Tall

    1973 · 149 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie7.3

    Macbeth

    1948 · 188 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Don't Bother to Knock

    1952 · 172 votes

  • Movie5.4

    The Manitou

    1978 · 70 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Walking Tall Part II

    1975 · 38 votes

  • Movie5.8
  • Movie6.6

    Room for One More

    1952 · 53 votes

  • Movie5.3

    A Life of Her Own

    1950 · 20 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie3.0

    Nightmare in the Sun

    1965 · 6 votes

  • Movie4.4

    Human Experiments

    1979 · 23 votes

  • Movie4.5

    Parts: The Clonus Horror

    1979 · 47 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Down and Dirty Duck

    1974 · 20 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Give a Girl a Break

    1953 · 18 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Stand Up and Cheer!

    1934 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Glass Slipper

    1955 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.0

    For the Love of It

    1980 · 2 votes

Series24

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV8.0
  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.7
  • TV7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.1

    Adam-12

    1968 · 48 votes

  • TV5.7

    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

  • TV6.5

    Dynasty

    1981 · 135 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV7.0

    Alice

    1976 · 63 votes

  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.8

    I Dream of Jeannie

    1965 · 842 votes

  • TV6.6

    My Three Sons

    1960 · 41 votes

  • TV6.7

    Charlie's Angels

    1976 · 241 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Partridge Family

    1970 · 35 votes

  • TV6.4

    Police Woman

    1974 · 33 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    1962 · 139 votes

  • TV6.9

    Hart to Hart

    1979 · 133 votes

  • TV7.9

    I Love Lucy

    1951 · 264 votes