Eileen Heckart
Acting
Born 1919-03-29
Died 2001-12-31
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
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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.
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The Mike Douglas Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Little House on the Prairie
Hawaii Five-O
Tony Awards
The Fugitive
Home Improvement
Alice
The Cosby Show
Dr. Kildare
Naked City
Gunsmoke
The F.B.I.
Studio One
Tales from the Darkside
Ellen
The Philco Television Playhouse
Highway to Heaven
Lou Grant
Ben Casey
Trapper John, M.D.
Cybill
Barnaby Jones
Suspense
The Streets of San Francisco
Switch
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Ed Sullivan Show
Felony Squad
Rhoda
Murder One
The New Breed
Love & War
CBS Playhouse
Lux Video Theatre
9 to 5
Heartbreak Ridge
Play of the Week
The First Wives Club
Banyon
Trauma Center
Backstairs at the White House
Flying High
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
Bus Stop
Partners in Crime
The Bad Seed
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Burnt Offerings
Out of the Blue
Zandy's Bride
Kraft Television Theatre
Butterflies Are Free
Annie McGuire
The Ford Theatre Hour
Miracle in the Rain
Table Settings
Sunshine Christmas
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