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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Fotos
Películas (37)
The First Wives Club
1996 · Catherine MacDuggan
Ultimate Betrayal
1994 · Sarah McNeil
Breathing Lessons
1994 · Mabel
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
1993 · Shelly, Shelley
Golden Tales
1993 · Rose Pennywell
Stuck with Each Other
1989 · Fay Cass
Heartbreak Ridge
1986 · Little Mary Jackson
Games Mother Never Taught You
1982 · Martha Brewster
Table Settings
1982
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
1981 · Sister Clara
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980 · Eleanor Roosevelt
White Mama
1980 · Three Bag Lady
The Sorrows of Gin
1979 · Rosemary
The Honeymooners Christmas Special
1978 · Mildred
Suddenly, Love
1978 · Mrs. Malloy
Sunshine Christmas
1977 · Bertha Hayden
Burnt Offerings
1976 · Roz Allardyce
The Hiding Place
1975 · Katje
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974 · Ma Barker
Zandy's Bride
1974 · Ma Allan
Wedding Band
1974 · Herman's Mother
The Victim
1972 · Mrs. Hawkes
Butterflies Are Free
1972 · Mrs. Florence Baker
All the Way Home
1971 · Aunt Hannah Lynch
The Tree
1969 · Sally Dunning
No Way to Treat a Lady
1968 · Mrs. Brummel
Up the Down Staircase
1967 · Henrietta Pastorfield
My Six Loves
1963 · Ethel
Heller in Pink Tights
1960 · Lorna Hathaway
A Doll's House
1959 · Kristine
Hot Spell
1958 · Fan
The Little Foxes
1956 · Birdie
The Bad Seed
1956 · Hortense Daigle
Bus Stop
1956 · Vera
Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956 · Ma Barbella
Miracle in the Rain
1956 · Grace Ullman
The Trip to Bountiful
1953 · Jessie Mae Watts
Series (48)
Murder One
1995
Cybill
1995 · Marge
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
1994 · Mother Emma Buchanan
Ellen
1994 · Grandma
Love & War
1992
Home Improvement
1991 · Elaine Jenkins
Annie McGuire
1988
Tales from the Darkside
1984 · Rose Pennywell
Partners in Crime
1984 · Jeanine
The Cosby Show
1984 · Mrs. Hickson
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Helen Spencer
Trauma Center
1983 · Amy Decker
9 to 5
1982
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Out of the Blue
1979 · The Boss Angel
Backstairs at the White House
1979 · Eleanor Roosevelt
Flying High
1978
Lou Grant
1977
Alice
1976
Switch
1975 · Annie Warren
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Amanda Cooper
Rhoda
1974 · Aunt Lillian Fiedler
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Virginia Lennox / Steele
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Stella 'Stell' Charnovski
Banyon
1972 · Mrs. Shaw
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 · Flo Meredith
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Agatha Henderson
CBS Playhouse
1966 · Janet Ferguson
Felony Squad
1966
The F.B.I.
1965 · Mrs. Creighton
The Fugitive
1963 · Sister Veronica
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
The New Breed
1961 · Harriet Dawson
Ben Casey
1961
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Nurse Jenny Freesmith
Play of the Week
1959 · Myrtle
Naked City
1958 · Mildred Pepper, Virginia Cort
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee, Self - Winner
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Lucy Baldwin
Gunsmoke
1955 · Hattie Silks, Athena Partridge Royce
Kraft Television Theatre
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Birdie, Mabel, Kristine Linde, Aunt Hannah Lynch
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Florie, Miss Green
Suspense
1949 · Mollie, Margaret Quartermain, Mrs. Haskell
Studio One
1948 · Evie Jackson
The Ford Theatre Hour
1948 · Carrie
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Jessie Mae, Ruthie
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self