Cast
Lurene Tuttle
Acting
Cast
Lurene Tuttle
Known for
Acting
Born
1907-08-20
From
Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
Died
1986-05-28
Also known as Lorene Tuttle
Biography
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.
★8.4
MOVIE1960
Psycho
as Mrs. Chambers
★5.4
MOVIE1978
The Manitou
as Mrs. Herz
★7.3
MOVIE1948
Macbeth
as Gentlewoman / The Three
★6.8
MOVIE1953
Niagara
as Mrs. Kettering
★6.4
MOVIE1983
Testament
as Rosemary Abhart
★5.3
MOVIE1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
as Stenographer
★6.6
MOVIE1973
Walking Tall
as Grandma
★4.7
MOVIE1974
Down and Dirty Duck
as Duck's Mother (voice)
★3.0
MOVIE1965
Nightmare in the Sun
as Gideon's wife
★5.9
MOVIE1984
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Mrs. Hunt
★7.6
MOVIE1957
Sweet Smell of Success
as Loretta Bartha (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1966
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
as Mrs. Natalie Miller
★6.6
MOVIE1952
Don't Bother to Knock
as Ruth Jones
★6.0
MOVIE1974
Hello Mother, Goodbye!
as Leona
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Heaven Only Knows
as Mrs. O'Donnell
★7.2
MOVIE1966
The Fortune Cookie
as Mother Hinkle
★4.4
MOVIE1979
Human Experiments
as Granny
★4.5
MOVIE1979
Parts: The Clonus Horror
as Anna Noble
★5.4
MOVIE1953
Give a Girl a Break
as Mrs. Doolittle
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Room for One More
as Miss Kenyon
★5.4
MOVIE1975
Walking Tall Part II
as Grandma Pusser
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Mary
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Slander
as Mrs. Doyle
★6.0
MOVIE1980
For the Love of It
as Blanche
★6.3
MOVIE1955
The Glass Slipper
as Cousin Loulou
★6.4
MOVIE1951
Goodbye, My Fancy
as Ellen Griswold
★5.3
MOVIE1950
A Life of Her Own
as Secretary (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1978
The Crash of Flight 401
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Tom, Dick and Harry
as Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1953
Never Wave at a WAC
as Capt. Murchinson, Company CO
★3.8
MOVIE1987
Evil Town
as Mildred Phelps
★7.8
MOVIE1974
Live Again, Die Again
as Betty Simpson
★5.6
MOVIE1963
Critic's Choice
as Mother in "Sisters Three"
★5.9
MOVIE1955
Sincerely Yours
as Mrs. McGinley
★5.4
MOVIE1977
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
as Grandma
★6.2
MOVIE1960
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
as Ma Barker
★7.5
MOVIE1944
Sadie Hawkins Day
as Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Homecoming
as Miss Stoker
★4.1
MOVIE1957
Untamed Youth
as Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp
★5.8
MOVIE1951
The Whip Hand
as Molly Loomis
★8.3
MOVIE1980
Carlton Your Doorman
as Carlton's Mother (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1980
White Mama
as Mrs. McIntyre
★5.0
MOVIE1983
Shooting Stars
as Mrs. Brand
★5.0
MOVIE1983
Shooting Stars
as Mrs Brand
★6.8
MOVIE1958
The Unchained Goddess
as Meteora the Goddess of Weather
★7.0
MOVIE1981
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Miss Watson
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Tomorrow Is Another Day
as Mrs. Dawson
MOVIE1975
Dr. Shagetz
as Mildred Phelps
★6.1
MOVIE1953
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer
★5.6
MOVIE1965
The Restless Ones
as David's Grandmother
★8.0
MOVIE1976
Law and Order
as Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.
★7.5
MOVIE1953
Three Lives
as Mrs. Armstrong
★5.8
MOVIE1981
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
as Mollie Heller
★7.7
MOVIE1974
Mrs. Sundance
as Mrs. Lee
★5.8
MOVIE1980
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
as Aunt Em (voice)
MOVIE1974
Down and Dirty Duck
as Duck's Mother (Voice)