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Eileen Heckart
Highest Rated: 89% No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Lowest Rated: 50% Burnt Offerings (1976)
Birthday: Mar 29, 1919
Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio, USA
A celebrated character actress of stage, film and TV, Heckart's disarming laugh, almost gangly frame and large eyes have lent themselves to the portrayal of overbearing mothers, career women, villainous dames, and a host of sympathetic, beloved parts. Perhaps best remembered for her Broadway and film portrayal of Mrs. Daigle, the bereaved mother of Patty McCormack's first victim in "The Bad Seed" (1956), her Broadway and film portrayal of Mrs. Baker, the mother with overbearing concern for her blind son in the Broadway and film versions of "Butterflies Are Free" (1973) and her several appearances as Mary's "Aunt Flo" on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50% | 68% | The First Wives Club | Catherine MacDuggan (Character) | $105.5M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Breathing Lessons | Mabel (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Ultimate Betrayal | Sarah McNeil (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 68% | 74% | Heartbreak Ridge | Little Marry Jackson (Character) | $41.0M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Partners in Crime | Jeanine (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Games Mother Never Taught You | Martha Brewster (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Big Black Pill | Sister Clara (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | White Mama | Three Bag Lady (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | F.D.R. -- The Last Year | Eleanor Roosevelt (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sunshine Christmas | Bertha Hayden (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 50% | 43% | Burnt Offerings | Roz Allardyce (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | The Hiding Place | Katje (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Zandy's Bride | Ma Allan (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy No. 1 | Ma Barker (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 69% | 80% | Butterflies Are Free | Mrs. Baker (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Victim | Mrs. Hawkes (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 89% | 75% | No Way to Treat a Lady | Mrs. Brummel (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 78% | 68% | Up the Down Staircase | Henrietta Pastorfield (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | My Six Loves | Ethel (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Heller in Pink Tights | Mrs. Lorna Hathaway (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Doll's House | Kristine Lind (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot Spell | Alma's Friend (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 86% | 86% | Somebody Up There Likes Me | Ma Barbella (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 63% | 82% | The Bad Seed | Hortense Daigle (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 80% | 62% | Bus Stop | Vera (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | Miracle in the Rain | Grace Ullman (Character) | - | 1956 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 71% | Home Improvement | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cybill | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996-1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ellen | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| 91% | 60% | Murder One | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 5 Mrs. Buchanans | "Mother" Emma Buchanan (Character) | 1994-1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Annie McGuire | Emma Block (Character) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Cosby Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Highway to Heaven | Helen Spencer (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Partners in Crime | Jeanine (Character) | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Amanda Cooper (Guest Star) | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Flo Meredith (Guest Star) | 1975-1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rhoda | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Story | Marge Stone (Character) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Stella 'Stell' Charnovski (Guest Star) | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Athena Partridge Royce (Guest Star) | 1965 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Sister Veronica (Guest Star) | 1964 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Felony Squad | Ruth Ehlers (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Polly Jenks (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Lucy Baldwin (Character) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Unknown (Character) | 1950 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Vi Miller (Character) | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1949 1951-1952 |