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person_profile-Eileen Heckart

Eileen Heckart Died at age: 82

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Eileen Heckart

Date of Birth:

Mar 29, 1919

Country of birth:

U.S.

Died:

Dec 31, 2001

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Eileen Heckart

Found 33 Movies in total

The First Wives Club

Catherine MacDuggan ( Actor )

... 1996

Ultimate Betrayal

Sarah McNeil ( Actor )

... 1994

Breathing Lessons

Mabel ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1993

Stuck with Each Other

Fay Cass ( Actor )

... 1989

Heartbreak Ridge

Little Mary Jackson ( Actor )

... 1986

Stephen King's Golden Tales

Rose Pennywell ( Actor )

... 1985

Games Mother Never Taught You

Martha Brewster ( Actor )

... 1982

Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill

Sister Clara ( Actor )

... 1981

F.D.R.: The Last Year

Eleanor Roosevelt ( Actor )

... 1980

White Mama

Three Bag Lady ( Actor )

... 1980

The Sorrows of Gin

Rosemary ( Actor )

... 1979

Suddenly, Love

Mrs. Malloy ( Actor )

... 1978

Sunshine Christmas

Bertha Hayden ( Actor )

... 1977

Burnt Offerings

Roz Allardyce ( Actor )

... 1976

The Hiding Place

Katje ( Actor )

... 1975

... 1974

Zandy's Bride

Ma Allan ( Actor )

... 1974

Wedding Band

Herman's Mother ( Actor )

... 1974

The Victim

Mrs. Hawkes ( Actor )

... 1972

Butterflies Are Free

Mrs. Florence Baker ( Actor )

... 1972

All the Way Home

Aunt Hannah Lynch ( Actor )

... 1971

No Way to Treat a Lady

Mrs. Brummel ( Actor )

... 1968

Up the Down Staircase

Henrietta Pastorfield ( Actor )

... 1967

My Six Loves

Ethel ( Actor )

... 1963

Heller in Pink Tights

Mrs. Lorna Hathaway ( Actor )

... 1960

A Doll's House

Kristine ( Actor )

... 1959

Hot Spell

Fan ( Actor )

... 1958

The Little Foxes

Birdie ( Actor )

... 1956

The Bad Seed

Hortense Daigle ( Actor )

... 1956

Bus Stop

Vera ( Actor )

... 1956

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Ma Barbella ( Actor )

... 1956

Miracle in the Rain

Grace Ullman ( Actor )

... 1956