Eileen Heckart
Acteur·rice
29 mars 1919
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Died 31 décembre 2001
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
As an actor
The First Wives Club
1996 · Catherine MacDuggan
Murder One
1995
Cybill
1995 · Marge
Breathing Lessons
1994 · Mabel
Ultimate Betrayal
1994 · Sarah McNeil
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
1994 · Mother Emma Buchanan
Ellen
1994 · Grandma
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1993 · Shelly, Shelley
Stephen King's Golden Tales
1993 · Rose Pennywell
Love & War
1992
Home Improvement
1991 · Elaine Jenkins
Stuck with Each Other
1989 · Fay Cass
Annie McGuire
1988
Heartbreak Ridge
1986 · Little Mary Jackson
The Cosby Show
1984 · Mrs. Hickson
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Helen Spencer
Tales from the Darkside
1984 · Rose Pennywell
Partners in Crime
1984 · Jeanine
Trauma Center
1983 · Amy Decker
Games Mother Never Taught You
1982 · Martha Brewster
Table Settings
1982
9 to 5
1982
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
1981 · Sister Clara
White Mama
1980 · Three Bag Lady
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980 · Eleanor Roosevelt
The Sorrows of Gin
1979 · Rosemary
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Backstairs at the White House
1979 · Eleanor Roosevelt
Out of the Blue
1979 · The Boss Angel
Suddenly, Love
1978 · Mrs. Malloy
The Honeymooners Christmas Special
1978 · Mildred
Flying High
1978
Sunshine Christmas
1977 · Bertha Hayden
Lou Grant
1977
Burnt Offerings
1976 · Roz Allardyce
Alice
1976
The Hiding Place
1975 · Katje
Switch
1975 · Annie Warren
Zandy's Bride
1974 · Ma Allan
Wedding Band
1974 · Herman's Mother
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974 · Ma Barker
Rhoda
1974 · Aunt Lillian Fiedler
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Amanda Cooper
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Virginia Lennox / Steele
Butterflies Are Free
1972 · Mrs. Florence Baker
The Victim
1972 · Mrs. Hawkes
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Stella 'Stell' Charnovski
Banyon
1972 · Mrs. Shaw
All the Way Home
1971 · Aunt Hannah Lynch
The Tree
1969 · Sally Dunning
No Way to Treat a Lady
1968 · Mrs. Brummel
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · Agatha Henderson
Up the Down Staircase
1967 · Henrietta Pastorfield
Felony Squad
1966
CBS Playhouse
1966 · Janet Ferguson
The F.B.I.
1965 · Mrs. Creighton
My Six Loves
1963 · Ethel
The Fugitive
1963 · Sister Veronica
Ben Casey
1961
The New Breed
1961 · Harriet Dawson
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Nurse Jenny Freesmith
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Heller in Pink Tights
1960 · Lorna Hathaway
A Doll's House
1959 · Kristine
Play of the Week
1959 · Myrtle
Hot Spell
1958 · Fan
Naked City
1958 · Mildred Pepper, Virginia Cort
Bus Stop
1956 · Vera
Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956 · Ma Barbella
The Bad Seed
1956 · Hortense Daigle
Miracle in the Rain
1956 · Grace Ullman
The Little Foxes
1956 · Birdie
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee, Self - Winner
Gunsmoke
1955 · Hattie Silks, Athena Partridge Royce
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Lucy Baldwin
The Trip to Bountiful
1953 · Jessie Mae Watts
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Birdie, Mabel, Kristine Linde, Aunt Hannah Lynch
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Florie, Miss Green
Suspense
1949 · Mollie, Margaret Quartermain, Mrs. Haskell
Studio One
1948 · Evie Jackson
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Jessie Mae, Ruthie
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
The Ford Theatre Hour
1948 · Carrie