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 Inges 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 Grazianos 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 Marys 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 Alzheimers disease.Description above from the Wikipedia article Eileen Heckart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Little Mary Jackson
Filme 1986
Catherine MacDuggan
Filme 1996
Mrs. Malloy
Filme 1978
Vera
Filme 1956
Ma Barbella
Filme 1956
Roz Allardyce
Filme 1976
Hortense Daigle
Filme 1956
Katje
Filme 1975
Mrs. Florence Baker
Filme 1972
Ma Allan
Filme 1974
Grace Ullman
Filme 1956
Mrs. Hawkes
Filme 1972
Fan
Filme 1958
Mabel
Filme 1994
Ethel
Filme 1963
Fay Cass
Filme 1989
Shelly
Filme 1993
Sarah McNeil
Filme 1994
Sister Clara
Filme 1981
Sally Dunning
Filme 1969
Aunt Hannah Lynch
Filme 1971
Rosemary
Filme 1979
Herman's Mother
Filme 1974
Bertha Hayden
Filme 1977
Rose Pennywell
Filme 1985
Birdie
Filme 1956
Kristine
Filme 1959
Jessie Mae Watts
Filme 1953
Ma Barker
Filme 1974
Mildred
Filme 1978
Tv 1977
Tv 1976
Tv 1979
Elaine Jenkins
Tv 1991
Mrs. Creighton
Tv 1965
Mother Emma Buchanan
Tv 1994
Agatha Henderson
Tv 1968
Mrs. Hickson
Tv 1984
Helen Spencer
Tv 1984
Tv 1995
Mildred Pepper
Tv 1958
Hattie Silks
Tv 1955
Tv 1948
Birdie
Tv 1951
Lucy Baldwin
Tv 1955
Rose Pennywell
Tv 1984
Tv 1966
Tv 1992
Sister Veronica
Tv 1963
The Boss Angel
Tv 1979
Annie Warren
Tv 1975
Florie
Tv 1950
Tv 1972
Tv 1948
Tv 1961
Harriet Dawson
Tv 1961
Mollie
Tv 1949
Tv 1966
Amy Decker
Tv 1983
Tv 1978
Tv 1988
Nurse Jenny Freesmith
Tv 1961
Jeanine
Tv 1984
Virginia Cort
Tv 1958
Athena Partridge Royce
Tv 1955
Miss Green
Tv 1950
Self
Tv 1948
Stella 'Stell' Charnovski
Tv 1972
Evie Jackson
Tv 1948
Mabel
Tv 1951
Grandma
Tv 1994
Kristine Linde
Tv 1951
Aunt Hannah Lynch
Tv 1951
Myrtle
Tv 1959
Margaret Quartermain
Tv 1949
Mrs. Haskell
Tv 1949
Tv 1949
Jessie Mae
Tv 1948
Ruthie
Tv 1948
Self - Winner
Tv 1956
Virginia Lennox / Steele
Tv 1973
Aunt Lillian Fiedler
Tv 1974
Tv 1953
Self
Tv 1961