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Eileen Heckart

Eileen Heckart, the whiskey-voiced character actress is best remembered for playing Mrs. Daigle, the shattered mother of a murdered child in The Bad Seed on Broadway and on film, as the steely Mrs. Baker, mother of a blind man in the film Butterflies Are Free. On television she was known as Mother Emma Buchanan on The 5 Mrs. Buchanans

English

A Doll's House

1959
as Kristine Lind

Backstairs at the White House

1979
as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Burnt Offerings

1976
as Roz Allardyce

Bus Stop

1956
as Vera

Butterflies Are Free

1972
as Mrs. Florence Baker

F.D.R.: The Last Year

1980
as Eleanor Roosevelt

Games Mother never taught you

1982
as Martha Brewster

Heartbreak Ridge

1986
as Little Mary Jackson

Heller in Pink Tights

1960
as Mrs. Lorna Hathaway

Hot Spell

1958
as Alma's friend

Miracle in the Rain

1956
as Grace Ullman

My Six Loves

1963
as Ethel

No Way to Treat a Lady

1968
as Mrs. Brummel

Partners in Crime

1984
as Jeanine

Stephen King's Golden Tales

1985
as Rose Pennywell

Suddenly, Love

1978
as Mrs. Malloy

Sunshine Christmas

1977
as Bertha Hayden

The Bad Seed

1956
as Hortense Daigle

The First Wives Club

1996
as Catherine MacDuggan

The Five Mrs. Buchanans

1994
as Emma Buchanan

The Sorrows of Gin

1979
as Rosemary

The Victim

1972
as Mrs. Hawkes

Trauma Center

1983
as Amy Decker, R.N.

Ultimate Betrayal

1994
as Sarah McNeil

Up the Down Staircase

1967
as Henrietta Pastorfield

Zandy's Bride

1974
as Ma Allan

Guest Star

Episode The Fugitive
Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (1)
1964
Episode The Fugitive
Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (2)
1964
Episode The Cosby Show
Autumn Gifts
1987
Episode Cybill
Buffalo Gals
1996
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Coming, Mama
1961
Episode Little House on the Prairie
Dance with Me
1979
Episode Barnaby Jones
Dark Legacy
1974
Episode Ben Casey
Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne
1963
Episode Cybill
Farewell, My Sweet
1998
Episode Flying High
Fear of Cheesecake
1978
Episode Suspense
Flare Week
1952
Episode Naked City
Her Life in Moving Pictures
1963
Episode Naked City
Hold for Gloria Christmas
1962
Episode Hawaii Five-O
Honor Is An Unmarked Grave
1975
Episode Rhoda
It's Not My Fault, Is It?
1976
Episode Gloria
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
1983
Episode Home Improvement
Losing My Religion
1997
Episode The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Lou Proposes
1976
Episode The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Mary's Aunt
1975
Episode The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Mary's Aunt Returns
1976
Episode Alice
Mother-in-Law (1)
1976
Episode Alice
Mother-in-Law (2)
1976
Episode Trapper John, M.D.
Mother’s Day (a.k.a. Mother Dearest)
1981
Episode Lou Grant
Pack
1980
Episode Suspense
Photo Finish
1950
Episode Ellen
Secrets & Ellen
1997
Episode Trapper John, M.D.
Send in the Clowns
1984
Episode Suspense
Telephone Call
1951
Episode Suspense
Tent on the Beach
1951
Episode The Fugitive
The Breaking of the Habit
1967
Episode The Felony Squad
The Broken Badge
1966
Episode The Ellen Burstyn Show
The Guest Lecturer
1986
Episode Gunsmoke
The Innocent
1969
Episode The F.B.I.
The Insolents
1965
Episode Gunsmoke
The Lady
1965
Episode Suspense
The Murderer
1949
Episode Suspense
The Seeker and the Sought
1949
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
The Thirty-Year Pin
1972
Episode Suspense
The Victims
1951
Episode Cybill
The Wedding
1997
Episode Love & War
You Make Me Feel So Young
1994