Eileen Heckart

Eileen Heckart was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. Born Anna Eileen Herbert, her career spanned nearly 60 years. She first became known for her role as schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney in the original 1953 cast of William Inge's play Picnic on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the overprotective mother of a blind adult son in Butterflies Are Free, a role she originated on Broadway before playing it in the film. She often played mothers, including Rocky Graziano's mother in Somebody Up There Likes Me; the mother of a murdered child in The Bad Seed; the elderly mother of an estranged son in the PBS production of the one-act play Save Me a Place at Forest Law; the overbearing mother of the detective portrayed by George Segal in No Way to Treat a Lady; the mother of reporter Jack Stein on the 1990s television sitcom Love & War; the mother of two separate characters on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live in the 1980s and 1990s; and the meddling mother of a jilted wife (played by Diane Keaton) in The First Wives Club, her last film role. She also had a recurring role on the 1970s sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, as Mary's Aunt Flo Meredith, a famous woman reporter, which she repeated on the subsequent spin-off series, Lou Grant. In addition to her Academy Award, she also won two Emmy Awards for Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn and Love & War, and a Golden Globe Award for The Bad Seed. She also received a special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 2000, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She made her final acting appearance in 2000 at age 80 in an off-Broadway production, The Waverly Gallery, in which she played the leading role of an elderly grandmother with Alzheimer's disease. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eileen Heckart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Columbus, Ohio, U.S., 1919-03-29

Died: 2001-12-31

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Trip to Bountiful	Jessie Mae Watts	0
2	1956	Miracle in the Rain	Grace Ullman	67
3	1956	Somebody Up There Likes Me	Ma Barbella	73
4	1956	Bus Stop	Vera	61
5	1956	The Bad Seed	Hortense Daigle	71
6	1956	The Little Foxes	Birdie	0
7	1958	Hot Spell	Fan	60
8	1959	A Doll's House	Kristine	100
9	1960	Heller in Pink Tights	Mrs. Lorna Hathaway	57
10	1963	My Six Loves	Ethel	56
11	1967	Up the Down Staircase	Henrietta Pastorfield	70
12	1968	No Way to Treat a Lady	Mrs. Brummel	66
13	1969	The Tree	Sally Dunning	0
14	1971	All the Way Home	Aunt Hannah Lynch	0
15	1972	Butterflies Are Free	Mrs. Florence Baker	68
16	1972	The Victim	Mrs. Hawkes	60
17	1974	Wedding Band	Herman's Mother	0
18	1974	Zandy's Bride	Ma Allan	63
19	1974	The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One	Ma Barker	0
20	1975	The Hiding Place	Katje	66
21	1976	Burnt Offerings	Roz Allardyce	65
22	1977	Sunshine Christmas	Bertha Hayden	0
23	1978	Suddenly, Love	Mrs. Malloy	90
24	1978	The Honeymooners Christmas Special	Mildred	70
25	1979	The Sorrows of Gin	Rosemary	100
26	1980	White Mama	Three Bag Lady	80
27	1980	F.D.R.: The Last Year	Eleanor Roosevelt	58
28	1981	Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill	Sister Clara	58
29	1982	Games Mother Never Taught You	Martha Brewster	0
30	1985	Stephen King's Golden Tales	Rose Pennywell	44
31	1986	Heartbreak Ridge	Little Mary Jackson	69
32	1989	Stuck with Each Other	Fay Cass	0
33	1993	Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story	Shelly	0
34	1993	Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story	Shelley	0
35	1994	Breathing Lessons	Mabel	54
36	1994	Ultimate Betrayal	Sarah McNeil	70
37	1996	The First Wives Club	Catherine MacDuggan	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
3	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Jessie Mae	63
4	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Ruthie	63
5	1948	The Ford Theatre Hour	Carrie	0
6	1948	Studio One		50
7	1948	Studio One	Evie Jackson	50
8	1949	Suspense	Mollie	49
9	1949	Suspense	Margaret Quartermain	49
10	1949	Suspense	Mrs. Haskell	49
11	1949	Suspense		49
12	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Florie	63
13	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Miss Green	63
14	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Birdie	86
15	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Mabel	86
16	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Kristine Linde	86
17	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Aunt Hannah Lynch	86
18	1953	Kraft Television Theatre		0
19	1955	Gunsmoke	Hattie Silks	66
20	1955	Gunsmoke	Athena Partridge Royce	66
21	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Lucy Baldwin	77
22	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	51
23	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
24	1958	Naked City	Mildred Pepper	55
25	1958	Naked City	Virginia Cort	55
26	1959	Play of the Week	Myrtle	0
27	1961	Dr. Kildare	Nurse Jenny Freesmith	55
28	1961	Ben Casey		56
29	1961	The New Breed	Harriet Dawson	70
30	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
31	1963	The Fugitive	Sister Veronica	72
32	1965	The F.B.I.	Mrs. Creighton	55
33	1966	Felony Squad		64
34	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
35	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Agatha Henderson	71
36	1972	Banyon	Mrs. Shaw	70
37	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Stella 'Stell' Charnovski	69
38	1973	Barnaby Jones	Virginia Lennox / Steele	69
39	1974	Rhoda	Aunt Lillian Fiedler	63
40	1975	Switch	Annie Warren	67
41	1976	Alice		71
42	1977	Lou Grant		73
43	1978	Flying High		45
44	1979	Backstairs at the White House	Eleanor Roosevelt	59
45	1979	Out of the Blue	The Boss Angel	60
46	1979	Trapper John, M.D.		65
47	1983	Trauma Center	Amy Decker	50
48	1984	Highway to Heaven	Helen Spencer	74
49	1984	The Cosby Show	Mrs. Hickson	70
50	1984	Partners in Crime	Jeanine	62
51	1984	Tales from the Darkside	Rose Pennywell	72
52	1988	Annie McGuire		50
53	1991	Home Improvement	Elaine Jenkins	74
54	1992	Love & War		62
55	1994	Ellen	Grandma	62
56	1994	The 5 Mrs. Buchanans	Mother Emma Buchanan	100
57	1995	Murder One		78

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