Cast: Eileen Heckart

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Eileen Heckart. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Somebody Up There Likes Me

1956 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Paul Newman · Pier Angeli · Everett Sloane · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Robert Wise, who directed the classic boxing noir The Set-Up in 1948, also made this 1956 biopic about the life of Rocky Graziano, a one-time juvenile delinquent from New York's back streets who became World Middleweight Champion. Paul Newman, though...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

Heartbreak Ridge

1986 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Marsha Mason · Everett McGill · Moses Gunn

Synopsis Heartbreak Ridge (1986) follows Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway, a hardened Marine nearing retirement, as he takes command of a misfit reconnaissance platoon. Tasked with whipping the undisciplined squad into shape, Highway faces resistance from both his men and his superiors....

7.2

33K votes

7.2

33K votes

The Bad Seed

1956 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Nancy Kelly · Patty McCormack · Henry Jones · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most "perfect" daughter in the world. But since childhood, Christine has suffered from the most terrible recurring nightmare. And her "perfect" daughter's accomplishments include lying,...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Up the Down Staircase

1967 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Sandy Dennis · Eileen Heckart · Jean Stapleton · Patrick Bedford

Synopsis Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up...

6.6

131 votes

6.6

131 votes

Butterflies are free

1972 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Milton Katselas

Cast Goldie Hawn · Edward Albert · Eileen Heckart · Paul Michael Glaser

Synopsis All Don Baker wants is a place of his own away from his over-protective mother. Don's been blind since birth, but that doesn't stop him from setting up in a San Francisco apartment and making the acquaintance of his off-the-wall,...

6.6

377 votes

6.6

377 votes

Bus Stop

1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Don Murray · Arthur O'Connell · Betty Field

Synopsis Innocent rodeo cowboy Bo falls in love with cafe singer Cherie in Phoenix. She tries to run away to Los Angeles but he finds her and forces her to board the bus to his home in Montana. When the bus...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Miracle in the Rain

1956 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Jane Wyman · Van Johnson · Peggie Castle · Fred Clark

Synopsis A fanciful, O. Henryesque tale set in New York City during World War II. A shy, lonely woman and a dashing soldier from Tennessee meet in the rain late one afternoon, and end up falling in love. But Fate threatens...

6.4

81 votes

6.4

81 votes

The Hiding Place

1975 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction James F. Collier

Cast Julie Harris · Jeannette Clift · Arthur O'Connell · Robert Rietty

Synopsis Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. Suspected of hiding Jews & caught breaking rationing rules, they are sent...

6.3

36 votes

6.3

36 votes

No Way to Treat a Lady

1968 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Rod Steiger · Lee Remick · George Segal · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Steiger is a psychotic master of disguise who stalks and kills various women in this suspenseful cat-and-mouse game. Segal, as the detective assigned to the case, uncovers clues, falls in love, and discovers that his new girl may be the...

6.3

218 votes

6.3

218 votes

Burnt Offerings

1976 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Dan Curtis

Cast Karen Black · Oliver Reed · Bette Davis · Burgess Meredith

Synopsis Ben and Marian Roth find a large old rundown country house being offered incredibly cheaply and take a summer lease. But once they move in Ben finds himself prone to strange outbursts of violence while Marian spends all her time...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Mary Tyler Moore (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction James L. Brooks · Allan Burns · Jay Sandrich · Peter Baldwin

Cast Mary Tyler Moore · Ed Asner · Valerie Harper · Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis TV Series (1970-1977). 7 Seasons. 168 Episodes. Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis after a relationship goes bad. She finds work as an associate producer in a small television newsroom where the characters include Lou Grant, her gruff boss, Murray Slaughter...

6.1

410 votes

6.1

410 votes

Zandy's Bride

1974 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Gene Hackman · Liv Ullmann · Eileen Heckart · Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.

6.0

68 votes

6.0

68 votes

Heller in Pink Tights

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Sophia Loren · Anthony Quinn · Margaret O'Brien · Steve Forrest

Synopsis Tells the story of theatrical troupe that travels through the Old West. Its tagline: One foot on the stage... And one step ahead of the law!

5.5

316 votes

5.5

316 votes

The First Wives Club

1996 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Hugh Wilson

Cast Goldie Hawn · Bette Midler · Diane Keaton · Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis Three former college chums -- vain Elise, brassy Brenda and wimpy Annie -- reunite after the death of a friend. Soon, the ladies discover that they've all been recently dumped by their smarmy husbands for younger, nubile women. The neurotic...

5.2

7K votes

5.2

7K votes

Banyon (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ed Adamson · Ralph Senensky · Daniel Petrie · Marvin J. Chomsky

Cast Robert Forster · Joan Blondell · Richard Jaeckel · Julie Gregg

Synopsis TV Series (1971-1973) 15 Episodes. The adventures of 1930's Los Angeles private eye Miles Banyon.

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The New Breed (TV Series)

1961 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Hank Searls · Walter Grauman · Joseph Pevney · Allen H. Miner

Cast Leslie Nielsen · John Beradino · John Clarke · Greg Roman

Synopsis "The New Breed" was an American crime - drama series ,aired on ABC network from 1961 to 1962, with thirty-six episodes,starring Leslie Nielsen at age 35

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Secrets (TV)

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Paul Bogart

Cast Katharine Bard · Barbara Bel Geddes · Eileen Heckart · Barry Nelson

Synopsis After 21 years, Doris Gray learns that her husband holds a secret. She knows Bryan has nothing to hide, but fear and circumstance urge her to panicky speculations that wedge them apart.

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Hot Spell

1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Shirley Booth · Anthony Quinn · Shirley MacLaine · Earl Holliman

Synopsis A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.

Not rated

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White Mama (TV)

1980 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jackie Cooper

Cast Bette Davis · Ernest Harden Jr. · Eileen Heckart · Virginia Capers

Synopsis A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother...

Not rated

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My Six Loves

1963 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Gower Champion

Cast Debbie Reynolds · Cliff Robertson · David Janssen · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Successful Broadway star Janice Courtney collapses from exhaustion and is ordered to rest for six weeks at her country home in Connecticut. While there, she meets some people who change her life permanently, and discovers true love and happiness.

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