---
name: "Josephine Hutchinson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/josephine-hutchinson"
fi1m_id: "josephine-hutchinson"
imdb_id: "nm0404360"
tmdb_id: 2643
wikidata_id: "Q932792"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 October 1903"
died: "4 June 1998"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T23:16:07.121467+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Josephine Hutchinson

## Identity

Josephine Hutchinson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/josephine-hutchinson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** josephine-hutchinson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0404360
- **TMDB ID:** 2643
- **Wikidata ID:** Q932792
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Hutchinson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q932792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404360/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2643

Actor. Born 12 October 1903 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Died 4 June 1998.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 October 1903, Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Died:** 4 June 1998
- **Active:** 1936–1959
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Hutchinson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q932792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404360/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2643

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*North by Northwest*](https://film.one/film/north-by-northwest.md) (89)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Josephine Hutchinson was an American actress. Born in Seattle, Washington, on 12 October 1903, she trained at the Cornish School and began her career on stage. She joined Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater in the 1920s and made her Broadway debut in 1925. Her film work began as a child in 1917; she signed with Warner Bros. in 1934 and appeared in *Happiness Ahead* that year.

Hutchinson played Elsa von Frankenstein in *Son of Frankenstein* (1939). Later film roles included Mrs. Townsend in *North by Northwest* (1959). She made numerous television appearances in series such as *Perry Mason*, *The Twilight Zone*, *Gunsmoke* and *Little House on the Prairie*. She died in Manhattan on 4 June 1998.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *North by Northwest* (1959), Fi1m 89, as Mrs. Townsend — [page](https://film.one/film/north-by-northwest.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Little House on the Prairie* (1974), series, as Amy O'Hara Hearn
- *The Sixth Sense* (1972), series, Actor
- *The Homecoming: A Christmas Story* (1971), as Mamie Baldwin
- *Travis Logan, D.A.* (1971), as Mrs. Tice
- *Rabbit, Run* (1970), as Mrs. Angstrom
- *The Partridge Family* (1970), series, as Amanda
- *To Rome with Love* (1969), series, Actor
- *Then Came Bronson* (1969), series, as Miss Lucy
- *The Mod Squad* (1968), series, Actor
- *The Name of the Game* (1968), series, as Millie Farrell
- *Shadow Over Elveron* (1968), as Emily Maslan
- *Mannix* (1967), series, Actor
- *Nevada Smith* (1966), as Mrs. Elvira McCanles
- *The F.B.I.* (1965), series, as Libby Jackson, Anna Wandermere
- *Baby the Rain Must Fall* (1965), as Mme Ewing
- *Kraft Suspense Theatre* (1963), series, as Mrs. Blanchard
- *Burke's Law* (1963), series, as Madeline Vickers
- *General Electric True* (1962), series, Actor
- *The New Breed* (1961), series, as Nettie
- *Dr. Kildare* (1961), series, as Amelia Blair
- *The Barbara Stanwyck Show* (1960), series, as Betty Galloway
- *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (1960), as Widow Douglas
- *Walk Like a Dragon* (1960), as Ma Bartlett
- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), series, as Grandma Robot — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)
- *Bonanza* (1959), series, as Martha Randolph
- *North by Northwest* (1959), as Mrs. Townsend — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/north-by-northwest.md)
- *Rawhide* (1959), series, as Abigail Briggs
- *The Rifleman* (1958), series, Actor
- *Step Down to Terror* (1958), as Mrs. Walters
- *Sing Boy Sing* (1958), as Caroline Walker
- *Perry Mason* (1957), series, as Leona Walsh, Miriam Baker, Miss Sarah
- *Gun for a Coward* (1956), as Madame Keough
- *Miracle in the Rain* (1956), as Agnes Wood
- *Matinee Theater* (1955), series, Actor
- *The 20th Century Fox Hour* (1955), series, Actor
- *Gunsmoke* (1955), series, as Mrs. Crale, Sister Ellen
- *Many Rivers to Cross* (1955), as Mrs. Cherne
- *The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse* (1953), series, as Lyddie Hampton
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Mother, Mama Stacey
- *Ruby Gentry* (1952), as Letitia Gentry
- *Love Is Better Than Ever* (1952), as Mrs. Macaboy
- *Schlitz Playhouse of Stars* (1951), series, as Mother Superior
- *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as Mrs. Lavery
- *Adventure in Baltimore* (1949), as Mrs. Lilly Sheldon
- *The Tender Years* (1948), as Emily Norris
- *Cass Timberlane* (1947), as Lillian Drover
- *Somewhere in the Night* (1946), as Elizabeth Conroy
- *Her First Beau* (1941), as Mrs. Wood
- *Tom Brown's School Days* (1940), as Mrs. Mary Arnold
- *My Son, My Son!* (1940), as Nellie Moscrop Essex
- *Son of Frankenstein* (1939), as Elsa von Frankenstein
- *The Crime of Doctor Hallet* (1938), as Dr. Mary Reynolds
- *The Women Men Marry* (1937), as Jane Carson
- *Mountain Justice* (1937), as Ruth Harkins
- *I Married a Doctor* (1936), as Carol Kennicott
- *The Story of Louis Pasteur* (1936), as Marie Pasteur
- *The Melody Lingers on* (1935), as Ann Prescott
- *Oil for the Lamps of China* (1935), as Hester Adams Chase
- *The Right to Live* (1935), as Stella Trent
- *Happiness Ahead* (1934), as Joan Bradford
- *A Little Princess* (1917), as (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Photograph of Josephine Hutchinson as Alice in the Civic Repertory Company production of Alice in Wonderland (1932) Caption reads as follows: Miss Josephine Hut (1931)](https://film.one/media/person/59217/gallery-e1fdbfe633d9.jpg) Photograph of Josephine Hutchinson as Alice in the Civic Repertory Company production of Alice in Wonderland (1932) Caption reads as follows: Miss Josephine Hut (1931) — Theatre Magazine Company; White Studio, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Josephine-Hutchinson-Alice-in-Wonderland.jpg/1280px-Josephine-Hutchinson-Alice-in-Wonderland.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lobby card for the 1937 film The Women Men Marry.](https://film.one/media/person/59217/gallery-afae864d7b08.jpg) Lobby card for the 1937 film The Women Men Marry. — MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Women_Men_Marry_lobby_card.jpg/1280px-Women_Men_Marry_lobby_card.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Josephine Hutchinson](https://film.one/media/person/59217/gallery-cf578561799f.jpg) Josephine Hutchinson — Image via TMDB

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