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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Eileen Heckart Biography / Wiki
| Name | Eileen Heckart |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Date of Birth | 1919-03-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 82 |
| Deathday | 2001-12-31 |
Eileen Heckart Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Victim | Mrs. Hawkes | 1972-11-14 | A woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is … |
| F.D.R.: The Last Year | Eleanor Roosevelt | 1980-04-14 | Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasio… |
| The Tree | Sally Dunning | 1969-06-09 | A directionless and emotionally scarred young man kidnaps his niece, the daughter of his sister with whom he has a difficult past…. |
| The Trip to Bountiful | Jessie Mae Watts | 1953-03-01 | Plot unknown…. |
| Suddenly, Love | Mrs. Malloy | 1978-12-04 | Despite their different backgrounds working class Regina Malloy and wealthy Jack Graham fall in love leading to marriage and the birth of a son. All i… |
| The Bad Seed | Hortense Daigle | 1956-09-12 | Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda — as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-… |
| Up the Down Staircase | Henrietta Pastorfield | 1967-06-28 | Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York’s inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there’s no chal… |
| Butterflies Are Free | Mrs. Florence Baker | 1972-07-06 | Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker moves away from his overprotective mother. After settling into his new San Francisco di… |
| Zandy’s Bride | Ma Allan | 1974-05-19 | Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they s… |
| White Mama | Three Bag Lady | 1980-03-05 | A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial… |
| Wedding Band | Herman’s Mother | 1974-04-24 | A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 South Carolina…. |
| Somebody Up There Likes Me | Ma Barbella | 1956-07-04 | The story of boxer Rocky Graziano’s rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ…. |
| No Way to Treat a Lady | Mrs. Brummel | 1968-03-20 | Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York Cit… |
| My Six Loves | Ethel | 1963-04-03 | A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property…. |
| Ultimate Betrayal | Sarah McNeil | 1994-03-20 | Based on a true story about two sisters who sue their father for incest and child abuse. As the story unfolds, it is revealed that the father severely… |
| A Doll’s House | Kristine | 1959-11-15 | A wealthy woman’s attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded…. |
| Stuck with Each Other | Fay Cass | 1989-10-17 | When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his safe, only to find themselves pursued by the crim… |
| Bus Stop | Vera | 1956-08-31 | Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to tak… |
| Burnt Offerings | Roz Allardyce | 1976-10-18 | A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time so… |
| Heller in Pink Tights | Mrs. Lorna Hathaway | 1960-03-01 | Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lad… |
| Stephen King’s Golden Tales | Rose Pennywell | 1985-10-19 | A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five… |
| Miracle in the Rain | Grace Ullman | 1956-03-31 | Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York…. |
| Hot Spell | Fan | 1958-05-21 | Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, trying to hide how much she suffers from her husband’s amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve… |
| Breathing Lessons | Mabel | 1994-02-06 | A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend’s funeral…. |
| The Sorrows of Gin | Rosemary | 1979-10-24 | An affluent suburban couple’s empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter…. |
| The Little Foxes | Birdie | 1956-12-16 | A tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south at the turn of the twentieth century…. |
| Heartbreak Ridge | Little Mary Jackson | 1986-12-05 | A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad… |
| Sunshine Christmas | Bertha Hayden | 1977-12-12 | A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas wi… |
| The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One | Ma Barker | 1974-11-08 | J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang…. |
| Partners In Crime | Jeanine | 1984-10-13 | Carole Stanwyck and Sydney Kovack were both married to the same man, a private detective. When he is killed, they both attend his memorial. When they … |
| The First Wives Club | Catherine MacDuggan | 1996-09-20 | After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the tr… |
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