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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eileen Heckart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Heartbreak Ridge
(Little Mary Jackson)
The First Wives Club
(Catherine MacDuggan)
Suddenly, Love
(Mrs. Malloy)
Bus Stop
(Vera)
Somebody Up There Likes Me
(Ma Barbella)
Burnt Offerings
(Roz Allardyce)
The Bad Seed
(Hortense Daigle)
No Way to Treat a Lady
(Mrs. Brummel)
Up the Down Staircase
(Henrietta Pastorfield)
Heller in Pink Tights
(Mrs. Lorna Hathaway)
The Hiding Place
(Katje)
Butterflies Are Free
(Mrs. Florence Baker)
Zandy's Bride
(Ma Allan)
Miracle in the Rain
(Grace Ullman)
The Victim
(Mrs. Hawkes)
Hot Spell
(Fan)
Breathing Lessons
(Mabel)
My Six Loves
(Ethel)
White Mama
(Three Bag Lady)
F.D.R.: The Last Year
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
Stuck with Each Other
(Fay Cass)
Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story
(Shelly)
Games Mother Never Taught You
(Martha Brewster)
Ultimate Betrayal
(Sarah McNeil)
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
(Sister Clara)
The Tree
(Sally Dunning)
All the Way Home
(Aunt Hannah Lynch)
The Sorrows of Gin
(Rosemary)
Wedding Band
(Herman's Mother)
Sunshine Christmas
(Bertha Hayden)
Stephen King's Golden Tales
(Rose Pennywell)
The Little Foxes
(Birdie)
A Doll's House
(Kristine)
The Trip to Bountiful
(Jessie Mae Watts)
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
(Ma Barker)
Lou Grant
Alice
Trapper John, M.D.
Home Improvement
(Elaine Jenkins)
The F.B.I.
(Mrs. Creighton)
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
(Mother Emma Buchanan)
Hawaii Five-O
(Agatha Henderson)
The Cosby Show
(Mrs. Hickson)
Highway to Heaven
(Helen Spencer)
Murder One
Naked City
(Mildred Pepper)
Gunsmoke
(Hattie Silks)
Studio One
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Birdie)
Backstairs at the White House
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(Lucy Baldwin)
Tales from the Darkside
(Rose Pennywell)
Felony Squad
Love & War
The Fugitive
(Sister Veronica)
Out of the Blue
(The Boss Angel)
Switch
(Annie Warren)
Lux Video Theatre
(Florie)
Banyon
The Philco Television Playhouse
Ben Casey
The New Breed
(Harriet Dawson)
Suspense
(Mollie)
CBS Playhouse
Trauma Center
(Amy Decker)
Flying High
Annie McGuire
Dr. Kildare
(Nurse Jenny Freesmith)
Partners in Crime
(Jeanine)
Naked City
(Virginia Cort)
Gunsmoke
(Athena Partridge Royce)
Lux Video Theatre
(Miss Green)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self)
The Streets of San Francisco
(Stella 'Stell' Charnovski)
Studio One
(Evie Jackson)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Mabel)
Ellen
(Grandma)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Kristine Linde)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Aunt Hannah Lynch)
Play of the Week
(Myrtle)
Suspense
(Margaret Quartermain)
Suspense
(Mrs. Haskell)
Suspense
The Philco Television Playhouse
(Jessie Mae)
The Philco Television Playhouse
(Ruthie)
Tony Awards
(Self - Winner)
Barnaby Jones
(Virginia Lennox / Steele)
Rhoda
(Aunt Lillian Fiedler)