Eileen Heckart

Biography

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.

Filmografi

The First Wives Club1996 · Catherine MacDugganHeartbreak Ridge1986 · Little Mary JacksonGolden Tales1993 · Rose PennywellThe Bad Seed1956 · Hortense DaigleSunshine Christmas1977 · Bertha HaydenTable Settings1982 · Bus Stop1956 · VeraZandy's Bride1974 · Ma AllanSomebody Up There Likes Me1956 · Ma BarbellaBurnt Offerings1976 · Roz AllardyceMiracle in the Rain1956 · Grace UllmanButterflies Are Free1972 · Mrs. Florence BakerJoe Dancer: The Big Black Pill1981 · Sister ClaraHeller in Pink Tights1960 · Lorna HathawayThe Honeymooners Christmas Special1978 · MildredNo Way to Treat a Lady1968 · Mrs. BrummelUp the Down Staircase1967 · Henrietta PastorfieldThe F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One1974 · Ma BarkerThe Hiding Place1975 · KatjeAll the Way Home1971 · Aunt Hannah LynchBreathing Lessons1994 · MabelThe Victim1972 · Mrs. HawkesGames Mother Never Taught You1982 · Martha BrewsterThe Sorrows of Gin1979 · Rosemary