Lurene Tuttle

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1907-08-20 (79 years old)

Deathday

1986-05-28

Place of Birth

Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA

Lurene 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 Psych...

Acting

1960

Psycho

as Mrs. Chambers

1966

The Fortune Cookie

as Mother Hinkle

1963

Critic's Choice

as Mother in "Sisters Three"

1952

1966

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

as Mrs. Natalie Miller

1978

The Manitou

as Mrs. Herz

1951

1951

The Whip Hand

as Molly Loomis

1952

Room for One More

as Miss Kenyon

1993

24 Hour Psycho

as Mrs. Chambers (archive footage)

1953

Niagara

as Mrs. Kettering

1979

1975

Walking Tall Part II

as Grandma Pusser

1974

Down and Dirty Duck

as Duck's Mother (voice)

1957

Slander

as Mrs. Doyle

1960

1979

1953

Never Wave at a WAC

as Capt. Murchinson, Company CO

1965

Nightmare in the Sun

as Gideon's wife

1953

Give a Girl a Break

as Mrs. Doolittle

1951

Goodbye, My Fancy

as Ellen Griswold

1955

The Glass Slipper

as Cousin Loulou

1973

Walking Tall

as Grandma

1976

Law and Order

as Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.

1955

Sincerely Yours

as Mrs. McGinley

1953

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer

1980

White Mama

as Mrs. McIntyre

1980

1983

Shooting Stars

as Mrs. Brand

1957

Sweet Smell of Success

as Loretta Bartha (uncredited)

1983

Shooting Stars

as Mrs Brand

1983

Testament

as Rosemary Abhart

1980

1980

Carlton Your Doorman

as Carlton's Mother (voice)

1987

Evil Town

as Mildred Phelps

1975

Dr. Shagetz

as Mildred Phelps

1958

The Unchained Goddess

as Meteora the Goddess of Weather

1947

Heaven Only Knows

as Mrs. O'Donnell

1957

Untamed Youth

as Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp

1948

Macbeth

as Gentlewoman / The Three

1974

Live Again, Die Again

as Betty Simpson

1974

Mrs. Sundance

as Mrs. Lee

1941

Tom, Dick and Harry

as Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)

1950

A Life of Her Own

as Secretary (uncredited)

1948

Homecoming

as Miss Stoker

1965

The Restless Ones

as David's Grandmother

1953

Three Lives

as Mrs. Armstrong

1934

Stand Up and Cheer!

as Stenographer

1944

Sadie Hawkins Day

as Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)

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