Movies List
TV Show List
Testament

as Rosemary Abhart

1983
Shooting Stars

as Mrs Brand

1983
White Mama

as Mrs. McIntyre

1980
Human Experiments

as Granny

1979
The Manitou

as Mrs. Herz

1978
Down and Dirty Duck

as Duck's Mother (voice)

1974
Live Again, Die Again

as Betty Simpson

1974
Mrs. Sundance

as Mrs. Lee

1974
The Fortune Cookie

as Mother Hinkle

1966
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

as Mrs. Natalie Miller

1966
Nightmare in the Sun

as Gideon's wife

1965
Ma Barker's Killer Brood

as Ma Barker

1960
The Unchained Goddess

as Meteora the Goddess of Weather

1958
The Glass Slipper

as Cousin Loulou

1955
Niagara

as Mrs. Kettering

1953
Never Wave at a WAC

as Capt. Murchinson, Company CO

1953
Give a Girl a Break

as Mrs. Doolittle

1953
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer

1953
Don't Bother to Knock

as Ruth Jones

1952
Room for One More

as Miss Kenyon

1952
Tomorrow Is Another Day

as Mrs. Dawson

1951
The Whip Hand

as Molly Loomis

1951
Goodbye, My Fancy

as Ellen Griswold

1951
Homecoming

as Miss Stoker

1948
Lurene Tuttle Lurene Tuttle

Birthday

1907-08-20

Place of Birth

Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA

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.
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