1919-03-29 ( 106 years old ) in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
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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Movies
The First Wives Club
1996-09-20
Ultimate Betrayal
1994-03-20
Breathing Lessons
1994-02-06
Stuck with Each Other
1989-10-17
Heartbreak Ridge
1986-12-05
Stephen King's Golden Tales
1985-10-19
Games Mother Never Taught You
1982-11-27
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
1981-01-29
F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980-05-15
White Mama
1980-03-05
The Sorrows of Gin
1979-10-24
The Honeymooners Christmas Special
1978-12-10
Suddenly, Love
1978-12-04
Sunshine Christmas
1977-12-12
Burnt Offerings
1976-10-18
The Hiding Place
1975-05-04
Zandy's Bride
1974-05-19
Wedding Band
1974-04-24
The Victim
1972-11-14
Butterflies Are Free
1972-07-06
All the Way Home
1971-12-01
The Tree
1969-06-09
No Way to Treat a Lady
1968-03-20
Up the Down Staircase
1967-06-28
My Six Loves
1963-04-03
Heller in Pink Tights
1960-03-01
A Doll's House
1959-11-15
Hot Spell
1958-05-21
The Little Foxes
1956-12-16
The Bad Seed
1956-09-12
Bus Stop
1956-08-31
Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956-07-04
Miracle in the Rain
1956-03-31
The Trip to Bountiful
1953-03-01
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