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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.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1919-03-29
- event Death Date 2001-12-31
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 6.4
- info Birth Place Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Eileen Heckart
6.9
Heartbreak Ridge
1986-12-05
6.7
The First Wives Club
1996-09-20
9
Suddenly, Love
1978-12-04
6.1
Bus Stop
1956-08-31
7.2
Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956-07-04
6.5
Burnt Offerings
1976-10-18
7.1
The Bad Seed
1956-09-12
6.6
No Way to Treat a Lady
1968-03-20
6.9
Up the Down Staircase
1967-06-28
5.7
Heller in Pink Tights
1960-03-01
6.7
The Hiding Place
1975-05-04
6.9
Butterflies Are Free
1972-07-06
6.3
Zandy's Bride
1974-05-19
6.7
Miracle in the Rain
1956-03-31
5.8
The Victim
1972-11-14
6
Hot Spell
1958-05-21
5.4
Breathing Lessons
1994-02-06
5.6
My Six Loves
1963-04-03
8
White Mama
1980-03-05
7.5
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980-05-15
0
Stuck with Each Other
1989-10-17
0
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1993-05-24
0
Games Mother Never Taught You
1982-11-27
7
Ultimate Betrayal
1994-03-20
5.8
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
1981-01-29
0
The Tree
1969-06-09
0
All the Way Home
1971-12-01
10
The Sorrows of Gin
1979-10-24
0
Wedding Band
1974-04-24
0
Sunshine Christmas
1977-12-12
5.5
Stephen King's Golden Tales
1985-10-19
0
The Little Foxes
1956-12-16
10
A Doll's House
1959-11-15
0
The Trip to Bountiful
1953-03-01
0
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974-11-08
7.2
Lou Grant
1977-09-20
7
Alice
1976-08-31
6.3
Trapper John, M.D.
1979-09-23
7.5
Home Improvement
1991-09-17
5.5
The F.B.I.
1965-09-19
10
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
1994-09-24
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
7
The Cosby Show
1984-09-20
7.4
Highway to Heaven
1984-09-19
7.9
Murder One
1995-09-20
5.3
Naked City
1958-09-30
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
4.4
Studio One
1948-11-07
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
5.9
Backstairs at the White House
1979-01-29
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
7.3
Tales from the Darkside
1984-09-30
7
Felony Squad
1966-09-12
6.5
Love & War
1992-09-21
6
Out of the Blue
1979-09-09
7.3
The Fugitive
1963-09-17
6.7
Switch
1975-09-09
5.5
Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02
7
Banyon
1972-09-15
5.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948-10-03
5.7
Ben Casey
1961-10-02
7
The New Breed
1961-10-03
4.3
Suspense
1949-01-06
0
CBS Playhouse
1966-12-08
5
Trauma Center
1983-09-22
4.5
Flying High
1978-09-29
5
Annie McGuire
1988-10-26
5.4
Dr. Kildare
1961-09-27
6.2
Partners in Crime
1984-09-27
5.3
Naked City
1958-09-30
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
5.5
Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02
6.6
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20
7
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-09-23
4.4
Studio One
1948-11-07
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
6.4
Ellen
1994-03-29
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
0
Play of the Week
1959-10-12
4.3
Suspense
1949-01-06
4.3
Suspense
1949-01-06
4.3
Suspense
1949-01-06
5.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948-10-03
5.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948-10-03
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
6.9
Barnaby Jones
1973-01-28
6.2
Rhoda
1974-09-09