Josephine Hutchinson
Born: 1903-10-12 in Seattle, Washington, USA
Died: 1998-06-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 - June 4, 1998) was an American actress. Hutchinson was born in Seattle, Washington. Her mother, Leona Roberts, was an actress best known for her role as Mrs. Meade in Gone with the Wind. Under contract with Warner Bros., Hutchinson went to Hollywood in 1934, debuting in Happiness Ahead. She was featured on the cover of Film Weekly on August 23, 1935 and appeared in The Story of Louis Pasteur in 1936. At Universal, she played Elsa von Frankenstein in one of her more memorable roles alongside actor Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein (1939). She later played Mrs. Townsend in North by Northwest (1959) and Love Is Better Than Ever, starring Elizabeth Taylor. Hutchinson made a number of Television appearances, including episodes of Perry Mason, The Rifleman and Little House on the Prairie. She died, aged 94, on June 4, 1998 at the Florence Nightingale Nursing Home in Manhattan. Her ashes were scattered near her niece’s home at Springfield, Oregon.
Filmography
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Amy O'Hara Hearn
1972
1971
- The Homecoming: A Christmas Story as Mamie Baldwin
- Travis Logan, D.A. as Mrs. Tice
1970
- The Partridge Family as Amanda
- Rabbit, Run as Mrs. Angstrom
1969
- Then Came Bronson as Miss Lucy
- To Rome with Love
1968
- The Name of the Game as Millie Farrell
- The Mod Squad
- Shadow Over Elveron as Emily Maslan
1967
1966
- Nevada Smith as Mrs. Elvira McCanles
1965
- The F.B.I. as Libby Jackson
- Baby the Rain Must Fall as Mme Ewing
1963
- Burke's Law as Madeline Vickers
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Mrs. Blanchard
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Amelia Blair
- The New Breed as Nettie
1960
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Betty Galloway
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Widow Douglas
- Walk Like a Dragon as Ma Bartlett
1959
- Bonanza as Martha Randolph
- The Twilight Zone as Grandma Robot
- Rawhide as Abigail Briggs
- North by Northwest as Mrs. Townsend
1958
- The Rifleman
- Step Down to Terror as Mrs. Walters
- Sing Boy Sing as Caroline Walker
1957
- Perry Mason as Leona Walsh
1956
- Gun for a Coward as Madame Keough
- Miracle in the Rain as Agnes Wood
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Gunsmoke as Mrs. Crale
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- Many Rivers to Cross as Mrs. Cherne
1953
- The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse as Lyddie Hampton
- General Electric Theater as Mother
1952
- Ruby Gentry as Letitia Gentry
- Love Is Better Than Ever as Mrs. Macaboy
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Mother Superior
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Mrs. Lavery
1949
- Adventure in Baltimore as Mrs. Lilly Sheldon
1948
- The Tender Years as Emily Norris
1947
- Cass Timberlane as Lillian Drover
1946
- Somewhere in the Night as Elizabeth Conroy
1943
- The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
1941
- Her First Beau as Mrs. Wood
1940
- Tom Brown's School Days as Mrs. Mary Arnold
- My Son, My Son! as Nellie Moscrop Essex
1939
- Son of Frankenstein as Elsa von Frankenstein
1938
- The Crime of Doctor Hallet as Dr. Mary Reynolds
1937
- Mountain Justice as Ruth Harkins
- The Women Men Marry as Jane Carson
1936
- The Story of Louis Pasteur as Marie Pasteur
- I Married a Doctor as Carol Kennicott
1935
- Oil for the Lamps of China as Hester Adams Chase
- The Right to Live as Stella Trent
- The Melody Lingers on as Ann Prescott
1934
- Happiness Ahead as Joan Bradford
1917
- A Little Princess as (uncredited)