Josephine Hutchinson
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1903-10-12
Day of Death
1998-06-04 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
Josephine Hutchinson
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.
Known For
Acting
(1971)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
as Mamie Baldwin
(1971)
Travis Logan, D.A.
as Mrs. Tice
(1970)
Rabbit, Run
as Mrs. Angstrom
(1968)
Shadow Over Elveron
as Emily Maslan
(1966)
Nevada Smith
as Mrs. Elvira McCanles
(1965)
Baby the Rain Must Fall
as Mme Ewing
(1960)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Widow Douglas
(1960)
Walk Like a Dragon
as Ma Bartlett
(1959)
North by Northwest
as Mrs. Townsend
(1958)
Sing Boy Sing
as Caroline Walker
(1958)
Step Down to Terror
as Mrs. Walters
(1956)
Gun for a Coward
as Madame Keough
(1956)
Miracle in the Rain
as Agnes Wood
(1955)
Many Rivers to Cross
as Mrs. Cherne
(1952)
Ruby Gentry
as Letitia Gentry
(1952)
Love Is Better Than Ever
as Mrs. Macaboy
(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
(1940)
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
(1937)
The Women Men Marry
as Jane Carson
(1936)
The Story of Louis Pasteur
as Marie Pasteur
(1936)
I Married a Doctor
as Carol Kennicott
(1935)
The Right to Live
as Stella Trent
(1935)
Oil for the Lamps of China
as Hester
(1935)
The Melody Lingers on
as Ann Prescott
(1934)
Happiness Ahead
as Joan Bradford
(1917)
A Little Princess
as (uncredited)