Eileen Heckart

Born Mar 29, 1919 in Columbus, Ohio, USA

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