Ellen Geer
Ellen Geer (born 1941 or 1942) is an American actress, theatre director, and professor.
Also recorded as Ellen Ware Geer
Ellen Geer
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- 1941. · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- film director, screenwriter, teacher, actress and theatre director.
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Ellen Geer (born 1941 or 1942) is an American actress, theatre director, and professor.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Ellen Geer's parents, Herta Ware and Will Geer, were both actors. Her father was best known for playing Grandpa Zebulon "Zeb" Walton on the 1970s television series The Waltons.
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Career
In 1963, Geer joined the Minnesota Theatre Company for the opening seasons of the original Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, where, among other roles, she played the lead in Douglas Campbell’s production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. Geer began her film career appearing as a nun in the 1968 Richard Lester drama Petulia. She followed this with an appearance in 1969's The Reivers with her father, Will Geer. In 1971, Geer played the deceased wife of the lead character in Kotch, appearing throughout the movie in flashbacks. That same year, she became a regular on The Jimmy Stewart Show (which aired until the following year) and had a supporting role in the acclaimed comedy Harold and Maude. In 1974, she starred in two films which she also wrote: Silence and Memory of Us, both of which featured her father. The remainder of Geer's 1970s career consisted primarily of guest appearances and made-for-television movies. Television series on which she appeared during this time included Police Story, The Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, Barnaby Jones, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, and two episodes of Fantasy Island. Her television movie credits during this time included Babe (1975), The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976), The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977), and A Shining Season (1979). The only theatrical film on which she worked in the late 1970s was Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge in 1979. The remainder of her television credits include guest appearances in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Silicon Avatar"; The Waltons; Quincy, M.E.; Dallas; Supernatural; The Practice; Stingray; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; ER; NYPD Blue and Cold Case. She also had recurring roles on Falcon Crest and Beauty and the Beast. She played elderly Piper Halliwell on the WB series Charmed in the series finale. In October 2007, the actress returned briefly to Desperate Housewives, in which she briefly appeared before. She appeared in the fourth season of Castle in the episode called "The Blue Butterfly". Geer has served since 1978 as artistic director of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, a professional repertory, open-air theater in Topanga Canyon, California. Geer has also served as a visiting associate professor, teaching acting, at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater for 12 years.
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- 1.Donkin, Annemarie. Peter Alsop's Kid Koncerts and Reunion. M'Online. August 24, 2018.
- 2.Breslauer, Jan. Ellen Geer's Latest Play Explores the Pain of Her Actor Father's Blacklisting: Not Your Typical Family Affair. Los Angeles Times. August 12, 1995.
- 3.Morris, Steven Leigh. "First and Second Geer (and Beyond) at Theatricum Botanicum", in American Theatre. New York, New York: Theatre Communications Group, August 12, 2016.
- 4.Phillips, Michael. "'Harold and Maude' Takes On Established Cult and Conceits." Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2000.
- 5."Sentinel TV Log: Evening: 10:00: Baretta." Santa Cruz, California: Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 16, 1977.
- 6."TV Best Bets: Thursday: 9 p.m." Cambridge, Ohio: Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian, October 23, 1975.
- 7.Person, James E., Jr. Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain to Tomorrow, pp. 87, 243. Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, 2005.
- 8.Theatricum Botanicum.
- 9.UCLA School of Theater , accessed on June 6, 2008.
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