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Eileen Heckart
Actor
Died December 31, 2001 (82 years)
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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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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Known For
Filmography
| 1996 | The First Wives Club · as Catherine Macduggan |
| 1995 | Murder One (TV Series) |
| 1995 | Cybill (TV Series) · as Marge |
| 1994 | The Five Mrs. Buchanans (TV Series) · as Mother Emma Buchanan |
| 1994 | Ellen (TV Series) · as Grandma |
| 1994 | Ultimate Betrayal · as Sarah Mcneil |
| 1994 | Breathing Lessons · as Mabel |
| 1993 | |
| 1992 | Love & War (TV Series) |
| 1991 | Home Improvement (TV Series) · as Elaine Jenkins |
| 1986 | Heartbreak Ridge · as Little Mary Jackson |
| 1986 | The Ellen Burstyn Show (TV Series) · as Nathalie Garrett |
| 1986 | Seize the Day · as Funeral Woman #1 |
| 1985 | Stephen King's Golden Tales · as Rose Pennywell |
| 1984 | Partners in Crime (TV Series) · as Jeanine |
| 1984 | The Cosby Show (TV Series) · as Mrs. Hickson |
| 1984 | Highway to Heaven (TV Series) · as Helen Spencer |
| 1983 | Tales from the Darkside (TV Series) · as Rose Pennywell |
| 1983 | Trauma Center (TV Series) · as Amy Decker |
| 1982 | Gloria (TV Series) · as Gwendolyn Padnick |
| 1982 | Table Settings · as Cast |
| 1982 | 9 to 5 (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1981 | The Big Black Pill · as Sister Clara |
| 1980 | F.D.R.: The Last Year · as Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 1980 | White Mama · as Three Bag Lady |
| 1979 | Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) |
| 1979 | Out of the Blue (TV Series) · as The Boss Angel |
| 1979 | Backstairs at the White House (TV Series) · as Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 1978 | The Honeymooners · as Mrs. Gibson - Alice's Mother |
| 1978 | Suddenly, Love · as Mrs. Malloy |
| 1978 | Flying High (TV Series) |
| 1977 | Sunshine Christmas · as Bertha Hayden |
| 1977 | The Honeymooners · as Alice's Mother |
| 1977 | Lou Grant (TV Series) |
| 1976 | Burnt Offerings · as Roz Allardyce |
| 1976 | Alice (TV Series) |
| 1975 | The Hiding Place · as Katje |
| 1975 | Switch (TV Series) · as Annie Warren |
| 1974 | |
| 1974 | Rhoda (TV Series) · as Aunt Lillian Fiedler |
| 1974 | Lily · as Cast |
| 1974 | Zandy's Bride · as Ma Allan |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) · as Amanda Cooper |
| 1973 | Love Story (TV Series) · as Marge Stone |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Virginia Lennox / Steele |
| 1972 | The Victim · as Mrs. Hawkes |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) · as Stella 'stell' Charnovski |
| 1972 | Butterflies Are Free · as Mrs. Florence Baker |
| 1971 | All the Way Home · as Aunt Hannah Lynch |
| 1971 | Banyon (TV Series) |
| 1970 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series) · as Flo Meredith |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) · as Agatha Henderson |
| 1968 | One Life to Live (TV Series) · as Ruth Perkins |
| 1968 | No Way to Treat a Lady · as Mrs. Brummel |
| 1967 | Up the Down Staircase · as Henrietta Pastorfield |
| 1967 | CBS Playhouse (TV Series) |
| 1966 | The Felony Squad (TV Series) |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Mrs. Creighton |
| 1963 | The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Sister Veronica |
| 1963 | My Six Loves · as Ethel |
| 1962 | The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) · as Bea Miller |
| 1962 | The Doctors and the Nurses (TV Series) · as Harriet Watts |
| 1961 | The New Breed (TV Series) · as Harriet Dawson |
| 1961 | Ben Casey (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare (TV Series) · as Nurse Jenny Freesmith |
| 1961 | The Defenders (TV Series) · as Dr. Katherine Tasso |
| 1960 | Heller in Pink Tights · as Mrs. Lorna Hathaway |
| 1959 | A Doll's House · as Kristine |
| 1959 | The Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Myrtle |
| 1958 | Naked City (TV Series) · as Virginia Cort |
| 1958 | Hot Spell · as Fan |
| 1956 | To Tell the Truth (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Dorothy |
| 1956 | Bus Stop · as Vera |
| 1956 | The Bad Seed · as Hortense Daigle |
| 1956 | Somebody Up There Likes Me · as Ma Barbella |
| 1956 | Miracle in the Rain · as Grace Ullman |
| 1955 | Alcoa Hour (TV Series) · as Vi Miller |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Lucy Baldwin |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Hattie Silks |
| 1953 | The Trip to Bountiful · as Jessie Mae Watts |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Kristine Linde |
| 1951 | Out There (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1951 | Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Inez |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Miss Green |
| 1950 | Danger (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | The Web (1950) (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1950 | Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1949 | The Big Story (TV Series) · as Ruth Mugglebee |
| 1949 | Suspense (TV Series) · as Mollie |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Evie Jackson |
| 1948 | Ford Theatre (TV Series) · as Carrie |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Jessie Mae |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series) · as Courtesan |