Lurene Tuttle
Character actress Lurene Tuttle, dubbed "The First Lady of Radio," got her start in vaudeville, though she eventually transitioned into film and carried on a rich television career spanning several decades. Tuttle was such a major fixture in radio that the advocacy she lent, along with Jack Benny and Bing Crosby, to the formation of the American Federation of Radio Artists, and subsequently the Radio Actors Guild, led to their official establishment. Though radio allowed Tuttle to play a wide range of characters, she is most known for playing busybody neighbors and stodgy yet charming older matriarchs. In the radio mystery-comedy "The Adventures of Sam Spade," Tuttle played nearly every female role, though primarily voiced Spade's secretary, Effie. One of Tuttle's most notable radio-to-television transitions was with "The Red Skelton Show," which started as a radio variety program and became a television staple from the early 1950s through the early 1970s. Tuttle's major film appearances include her role as the sheriff's wife in Alfred Hitchock's classic thriller "Psycho," and as a gentlewoman and one of the three witches in Orson Welles's "Macbeth." Tuttle, however, became more well-known in the latter half of the 20th century for her role as dour yet warm-hearted nurse Hannah Yarby in the sitcom "Julia," starring Diahann Carroll; it was one of the first sitcoms to feature a female African American character in a leading role.
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Lurene Tuttle
Filmography
Movies
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89% |
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Testament | Rosemary Abhart (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shooting Stars | Mrs Brand (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Miss Watson (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
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Human Experiments | Granny (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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White Mama | Mrs. McIntyre (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Nutcracker Fantasy | Aunt Gerda (Voice) | - | 1979 |
45% |
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The Manitou | Mrs. Herz (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall | Grandma Pusser (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law and Order | Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr. (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Part 2, Walking Tall | Grandma Pusser (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live Again, Die Again | Betty Simpson (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heidi in the Mountains | Clara's Grandmather (Voice) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | God Bless Dr. Shagetz | Mildred Phelps (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mrs. Sundance | Mrs. Lee (Character) | - | 1973 |
77% |
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Walking Tall | Grandma Pusser (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit | Aunt Martha (Character) | - | 1968 |
96% |
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The Fortune Cookie | Mother Hinkle (Character) | - | 1966 |
67% |
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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken | Mrs. Natalie Miller (Character) | - | 1966 |
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Critic's Choice | Mother in "Sisters Three" (Character) | - | 1963 |
97% |
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Psycho | Mrs. Chambers (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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Ma Barker's Killer Brood | Ma Barker (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Unchained Goddess | Meteora the Goddess of Weather (Voice) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Slander | Mrs. Doyle (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Untamed Youth | Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Sincerely Yours | Mrs. McGinley (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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The Glass Slipper | Cousin Loulou (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | City in Flames | Molly O'Leary (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Give a Girl a Break | Mrs. Doolittle (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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The Affairs of Dobie Gillis | Mrs. Eleanor Hammer (Character) | - | 1953 |
78% |
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Niagara | Mrs. Kettering (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Room for One More | Miss Kenyon (Character) | - | 1952 |
100% |
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Don't Bother to Knock | Ruth Jones (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Never Wave at a WAC | Capt. Murchinson (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Goodbye, My Fancy | Ellen Griswold (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Tomorrow Is Another Day | Mrs. Dawson (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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The Whip Hand | Molly Loomis (Character) | - | 1951 |
87% |
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Macbeth |
Gentlewoman/ |
- | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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Homecoming | Miss Stoker (Character) | - | 1948 |
86% |
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Mary (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heaven Only Knows | Mrs. O'Donnell (Character) | - | 1947 |
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Stand Up and Cheer! | Stenographer (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1934 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 78% | Amazing Stories | Unknown (Character) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Agnes Cochran (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 1981-1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978-1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dukes of Hazzard | Granny Annie (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Mrs. Volusia (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Agnes Molson (Guest Star) | 1975-1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Mrs. Gamble (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rookies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adam's Rib | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adam-12 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Mrs. Cumbers (Guest Star) | 1960 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Partridge Family | Mrs. Sharp (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Bella Swann (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mod Squad | Female Clerk (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Julia | Hannah Yarby (Character) | 1968-1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petticoat Junction | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964-1965 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Iron Horse | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Henny McLeod (Guest Star) | 1958-1960 1963 1965-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Favorite Martian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
83% | 92% | The Munsters | Mrs. Morton (Guest Star) | 1964 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Secretary (Character) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Andy Griffith Show | Little Old Lady (Guest Star) | 1960 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Danny Thomas Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Novak | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hazel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leave It to Beaver | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Father of the Bride | Doris Dunston (Character) | 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Madie Armstrong (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marshal Dillon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Man | Martha Cawthorine (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | G.E. Theater | Ginny Andrews (Character) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Gun | Hannah Gilford (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Letter to Loretta | Unknown (Character) | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 97% | I Love Lucy | Club President (Guest Star) | 1953 |