Place of Birth:
Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
Date of Birth:
8/20/1907
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.
Psycho
The Fortune Cookie
Critic's Choice
Don't Bother to Knock
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Crash of Flight 401
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
The Manitou
Tomorrow Is Another Day
The Whip Hand
Room for One More
24 Hour Psycho
Niagara
Human Experiments
Walking Tall Part II
Down and Dirty Duck
Slander
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
Parts: The Clonus Horror
Never Wave at a WAC
Nightmare in the Sun
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Give a Girl a Break
Goodbye, My Fancy
The Glass Slipper
Walking Tall
Law and Order
Final Chapter: Walking Tall
Sincerely Yours
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
White Mama
For the Love of It
Shooting Stars
Sweet Smell of Success
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
Shooting Stars
Testament
Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz
Carlton Your Doorman
Evil Town
Dr. Shagetz
The Unchained Goddess
Heaven Only Knows
Untamed Youth
Macbeth
Live Again, Die Again
Mrs. Sundance
Tom, Dick and Harry
A Life of Her Own
Homecoming
The Restless Ones
Three Lives
Stand Up and Cheer!