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

• Little House on the Prairie — Amy O'Hara Hearn
• The Sixth Sense
• 1971The Homecoming: A Christmas Story — Mamie Baldwin
• 1971Travis Logan, D.A. — Mrs. Tice
• 1970Rabbit, Run — Mrs. Angstrom
• The Partridge Family — Amanda
• Then Came Bronson — Miss Lucy
• To Rome with Love
• 1968Shadow Over Elveron — Emily Maslan
• The Mod Squad
• The Name of the Game — Millie Farrell
• Mannix
• 1966Nevada Smith — Mrs. Elvira McCanles
• 1965Baby the Rain Must Fall — Mme Ewing
• The F.B.I. — Libby Jackson, Anna Wandermere
• Burke's Law — Madeline Vickers
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Mrs. Blanchard
• General Electric True
• Dr. Kildare — Amelia Blair
• The New Breed — Nettie
• 1960The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Widow Douglas
• The Barbara Stanwyck Show — Betty Galloway
• 1960Walk Like a Dragon — Ma Bartlett
• Bonanza — Martha Randolph
• 1959North by Northwest — Mrs. Townsend
• Rawhide — Abigail Briggs
• The Twilight Zone — Grandma Robot
• 1958Sing Boy Sing — Caroline Walker
• 1958Step Down to Terror — Mrs. Walters
• The Rifleman
• Perry Mason — Leona Walsh, Miriam Baker, Miss Sarah
• 1956Gun for a Coward — Madame Keough
• 1956Miracle in the Rain — Agnes Wood
• Gunsmoke — Mrs. Crale, Sister Ellen
• 1955Many Rivers to Cross — Mrs. Cherne
• Matinee Theater
• The 20th Century Fox Hour
• General Electric Theater — Mother, Mama Stacey
• The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse — Lyddie Hampton
• 1952Love Is Better Than Ever — Mrs. Macaboy
• 1952Ruby Gentry — Letitia Gentry
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Mother Superior
• Lux Video Theatre — Mrs. Lavery
• 1949Adventure in Baltimore — Mrs. Lilly Sheldon
• 1948The Tender Years — Emily Norris
• 1947Cass Timberlane — Lillian Drover
• 1946Somewhere in the Night — Elizabeth Conroy
• 1941Her First Beau — Mrs. Wood
• 1940My Son, My Son! — Nellie Moscrop Essex
• 1940Tom Brown's School Days — Mrs. Mary Arnold
• 1939Son of Frankenstein — Elsa von Frankenstein
• 1938The Crime of Doctor Hallet — Dr. Mary Reynolds
• 1937Mountain Justice — Ruth Harkins
• 1937The Women Men Marry — Jane Carson
• 1936I Married a Doctor — Carol Kennicott
• 1936The Story of Louis Pasteur — Marie Pasteur
• 1935Oil for the Lamps of China — Hester Adams Chase
• 1935The Melody Lingers on — Ann Prescott
• 1935The Right to Live — Stella Trent
• 1934Happiness Ahead — Joan Bradford
• 1917A Little Princess — (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1943The Voice That Thrilled the World — Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)