Personal Info
Birth date
1907-08-20 (117 Years)
Day of death
1986-05-28
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Pleasant Lake, Indiana, USA
Also known as
Lorene Tuttle
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 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.
Filmography
The Andy Griffith Show
7.622
Overview:
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.Matinee Theater
5
Overview:
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.My Three Sons
6.5
Overview:
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.The Mary Tyler Moore Show
7.5
Overview:
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.The Beverly Hillbillies
6.866
Overview:
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.The Twilight Zone
8.45
Overview:
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Dennis the Menace
6.5
Overview:
This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.The Texan
5.5
Overview:
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.Charlie's Angels
6.7
Overview:
Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.Amazing Stories
7.4
Overview:
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.Little House on the Prairie
7.942
Overview:
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.I Love Lucy
7.916
Overview:
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.Mannix
6.7
Overview:
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.Dr. Kildare
5.5
Overview:
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
Overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.Adventures in Paradise
5.7
Overview:
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.The Real McCoys
5.6
Overview:
The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto Productions", in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus' "Westgate" company. The series aired for five seasons on the ABC-TV network from 1957 through 1962 and then for its final year on CBS from 1962 to 1963. The series, set in the San Fernando Valley of California, was filmed in Hollywood at Desilu studios.Perry Mason
7.7
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Leave It to Beaver
7
Overview:
Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.Medical Center
6.1
Overview:
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.Crazy like a Fox
7.1
Overview:
Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984 to May 3, 1986.Alice
7.036
Overview:
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.I Dream of Jeannie
7.828
Overview:
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".Pete and Gladys
6.5
Overview:
Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.Hart to Hart
6.831
Overview:
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.Police Woman
6.2
Overview:
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.894
Overview:
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.Switch
6.7
Overview:
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.Acting
199324 Hour Psycho as Mrs. Chambers (archive footage)
1987Evil Town as Mildred Phelps
1985Amazing Stories (1 Episode) as Harriet Wendse
1984Crazy like a Fox (1 Episode) as Unknown
1984It Came Upon the Midnight Clear as Mrs. Hunt
1984Murder, She Wrote (1 Episode) as Agnes Cochran
1983Testament as Rosemary Abhart
1983Shooting Stars as Mrs. Brand, Mrs Brand
1982St. Elsewhere (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982Voyagers! (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982Matt Houston (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies as Mollie Heller
1981The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Miss Watson
1981Dynasty (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1980Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz as Aunt Em (voice)
1980For the Love of It as Blanche
1980Carlton Your Doorman as Carlton's Mother (voice)
1980White Mama as Mrs. McIntyre
1979Human Experiments as Granny
1979Trapper John, M.D. (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1979Hart to Hart (1 Episode) as Unknown
1979Parts: The Clonus Horror as Anna Noble
1978The Crash of Flight 401 as Unknown
1978The Manitou as Mrs. Herz
1978Fantasy Island (1 Episode) as Mary Emery
1977Final Chapter: Walking Tall as Grandma
1976Charlie's Angels (1 Episode) as Mrs. Machlin
1976Alice (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Law and Order as Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.
1975Walking Tall Part II as Grandma Pusser
1975Switch (1, 1 Episode) as Mary Beame, Rose
1975Dr. Shagetz as Mildred Phelps
1974Police Woman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1974Little House on the Prairie (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1974Down and Dirty Duck as Duck's Mother (voice)
1974Live Again, Die Again as Betty Simpson
1974Mrs. Sundance as Mrs. Lee
1973Adam's Rib (1 Episode) as Unknown
1973Walking Tall as Grandma
1972The Rookies (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1 Episode) as Bella Swann (as Lorene Tuttle)
1969Medical Center (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968Adam-12 (1, 1 Episode) as Iris Kelly, Mary O'Ryan
1968Julia (5, 86 Episode) as Unknown, Hannah Yarby
1967Mannix (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967Judd for the Defense (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967The Second Hundred Years (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966The Fortune Cookie as Mother Hinkle
1966Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966The Ghost & Mr. Chicken as Mrs. Natalie Miller
1965The Restless Ones as David's Grandmother
1965I Dream of Jeannie (1 Episode) as Mama
1965Nightmare in the Sun as Gideon's wife
1964The Munsters (1 Episode) as Mrs. Morton
1963Petticoat Junction (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Adelaide Keane, Mary Alice Perkins, Henrietta Greene
1963Mr. Novak (1 Episode) as Mrs. Grange
1963Burke's Law (1 Episode) as Amanda
1963Critic's Choice as Mother in "Sisters Three"
1962The Beverly Hillbillies (1 Episode) as Unknown
1961Father of the Bride (34 Episodes) as Doris Dunston
1961Hazel (1 Episode) as Unknown
1961Dr. Kildare (1 Episode) as Mrs. Parker
1961The Americans (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960The Andy Griffith Show (2 Episodes) as Annabelle Silby
1960My Three Sons (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Pete and Gladys (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1960The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1 Episode) as Tessie
1960Psycho as Mrs. Chambers
1960Ma Barker's Killer Brood as Ma Barker
1960Johnny Midnight (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1959Bourbon Street Beat (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Adventures in Paradise (1 Episode) as Penelope Hobart
1959Dennis the Menace (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) as Secretary (uncredited)
1959Johnny Ringo (1 Episode) as Mamie Murphy
1959The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1 Episode) as Lillian
1958Lawman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958The Texan (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive (1 Episode) as Mrs. Walker
1958The Unchained Goddess as Meteora the Goddess of Weather
1957Colt .45 (1 Episode) as Frances Benedict
1957Leave It to Beaver (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1957The Real McCoys (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1957Perry Mason (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Anna Houser, Sarette Winslow, Emma Bailey, Sarah Breel, Josephine Kempton, Henny McLeod
1957The Thin Man (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Have Gun, Will Travel (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Sweet Smell of Success as Loretta Bartha (uncredited)
1957Untamed Youth as Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp
1957Slander as Mrs. Doyle
1956The Adventures of Jim Bowie (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1955Sincerely Yours as Mrs. McGinley
1955Matinee Theater (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955Gunsmoke (1, 1 Episode) as Mrs. Cumbers, Anna Wilson
1955The Glass Slipper as Cousin Loulou
1955The Millionaire (1, 1 Episode) as Maggie Tremayne, Polly Thorne
1954Summer Playhouse (1 Episode) as Unknown
1953Life With Father (27 Episodes) as Unknown
1953Give a Girl a Break as Mrs. Doolittle
1953Three Lives as Mrs. Armstrong
1953The Affairs of Dobie Gillis as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer
1953General Electric Theater (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Ginny Andrews
1953You Are There (1 Episode) as Unknown
1953Never Wave at a WAC as Capt. Murchinson, Company CO
1953Niagara as Mrs. Kettering
1952Cavalcade of America (1 Episode) as Betsy Peale
1952Don't Bother to Knock as Ruth Jones
1952Room for One More as Miss Kenyon
1951I Love Lucy (1 Episode) as Club President
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1 Episode) as Marjorie
1951The Whip Hand as Molly Loomis
1951Tomorrow Is Another Day as Mrs. Dawson
1951Goodbye, My Fancy as Ellen Griswold
1950A Life of Her Own as Secretary (uncredited)
1948Macbeth as Gentlewoman / The Three
1948Homecoming as Miss Stoker
1948Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Mary
1947Heaven Only Knows as Mrs. O'Donnell
1944Sadie Hawkins Day as Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)
1941Tom, Dick and Harry as Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)
1934Stand Up and Cheer! as Stenographer