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Lurene Tuttle
🎂 Aug 20, 1907 — 🕯️ May 28, 1986 (78 years)
Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
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Psycho
1960
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
Niagara
1953
Testament
1983
Walking Tall
1973
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
1966
Macbeth
1948
Don't Bother to Knock
1952
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
1948
Room for One More
1952
Goodbye, My Fancy
1951
The Fortune Cookie
1966
Nightmare in the Sun
1965
Evil Town
1987
Critic's Choice
1963
The Whip Hand
1951
Down and Dirty Duck
1974
The Manitou
1978
Human Experiments
1979
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
1953
A Life of Her Own
1950
Tom, Dick and Harry
1941
The Glass Slipper
1955
The Restless Ones
1965
Walking Tall Part II
1975
Sincerely Yours
1955
Carlton Your Doorman
1980
Heaven Only Knows
1947
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
Homecoming
1948
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
1977
Give a Girl a Break
1953
Slander
1957
Tomorrow Is Another Day
1951
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
1960
Parts: The Clonus Horror
1979
TV Shows
Julia
1968
Father of the Bride
1961
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
Little House on the Prairie
1974
St. Elsewhere
1982
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Burke's Law
1963
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
The Munsters
1964
I Love Lucy
1951
Petticoat Junction
1963
Charlie's Angels
1976
Gunsmoke
1955
Perry Mason
1957
The Twilight Zone
1959
Switch
1975
The Millionaire
1955
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Mr. Novak
1963
Cavalcade of America
1952
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
Johnny Ringo
1959
Dr. Kildare
1961
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
Amazing Stories
1985
Adam-12
1968
General Electric Theater
1953
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Lurene Tuttle
1907-08-20 · Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
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." Lurene Tuttle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.