Name
Ellen Geer
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1941-08-29 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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Ellen Ware Geer (born August 29, 1941) is an American actress, professor, screenwriter, film director and theatre director.Geer has enjoyed a long, distinguished career in film and television. She began her career appearing as a nun in the 1968 Richard Lester drama Petulia. Geer 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 featured her father. The remainder of Geer's 1970s career consisted primarily of guest appearances and made-for-TV movies. TV shows 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 TV 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 '70s was Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge in 1979. The remainder of her TV credits include guest appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, Quincy, M.E., Dallas, The Practice, 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 future Piper Halliwell on the WB series Charmed in the series finale. In October 2007, the actress returned briefly to Desperate Housewives which she briefly appeared in before. 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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- 1971 Harold and Maude as Sunshine Doré
- 2005 Me and You and Everyone We Know as Ellen
- 1979 Over the Edge as Sandra Willat
- 2006 The Visitation as Mrs. Macon
- 1983 Something Wicked This Way Comes as Mrs. Halloway
- 1985 Creator as Mrs. Spencer
- 1996 Crossworlds as Joe's Mom
- 1987 The Wild Pair as Fern Willis
- 1989 Satan's Princess as Mary Kulik
- 1977 Babe as Lilly Didrikson
- 1991 Lonely Hearts as Martha
- 1986 My Town as Mother
- 2014 House at the End of the Drive as Eunice Sequoia
- 1987 A Different Affair as Mrs. Williams
- 1969 The Reivers as Sally
- 1980 My Kidnapper, My Love as Paula Stanley
- 2004 June as Grandma P.
- 1981 The Princess and the Cabbie as Nellie
- 2007 Man in the Chair as Mrs. Erskine
- 1971 Kotch as Vera Kotcher
- 1981 Bloody Birthday as Madge
- 1974 Silence as Barbara
- 1994 When a Man Loves a Woman as Woman at Al-Anon
- 1993 Midnight Witness as Valerie
- 2008 The Gold Bracelet as Miss Hanson
- 1979 A Shining Season as Veta Mercer
- 1997 The Postman as Mrs. Thompson
- 1978 Night Cries as Mrs. Whitney
- 2002 Nancy Drew as Librarian
- 1986 Hard Traveling as Norah Sloan
- 2018 Unlovable as Nana
- 1994 Clear and Present Danger as Rose
- 1992 Patriot Games as Rose
- 1974 Memory of Us as Betty
- 1998 The Odd Couple II as Frances Unger Melnick
- 1968 Petulia as Nun
- 2004 Criminal as Grandma
- 1983 Deadly Lessons as Mrs. Grant
- 2006 Our House as Rose
- 1983 Heart Like a Wheel as Mrs. Marianne Kalitta
- 1996 Phenomenon as Bonnie
- 1998 Practical Magic as Pharmacist
- 1983 I Want to Live as Mrs. Cooley
- 1994 Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story as Former Skater
- 1987 Big Shots as Bar Waitress
- Soon SON OF A BARMAN
- 2005 Medium ( 2 episodes ) as Grandma Benoit
- 1981 Falcon Crest ( 11 episodes ) as Doris
- 1977 CHiPs ( 5 episodes ) as Julie Barris
- 2003 Carnivàle ( 1 episode ) as The Crone
- 2009 Castle ( 1 episode ) as Vera Mulqueen
- 2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( 1 episode ) as Ruth Elliott
- 1999 Once and Again ( 2 episodes )
- 1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Kila Marr
- 2004 Desperate Housewives ( 3 episodes ) as Lillian Sims
- 1976 The Bionic Woman ( 1 episode )
- 2005 Bones ( 1 episode ) as Anne Reilly
- 2003 Cold Case ( 1 episode ) as Kay Lang
- 1976 Quincy, M.E. ( 1 episode )
- 2000 Girlfriends ( 3 episodes ) as Elizabeth Bickle
- 1998 Charmed ( 1 episode ) as Elderly Piper
- 1985 Moonlighting ( 1 episode ) as Amy Everette
- 2017 Room 104 ( 1 episode ) as Lorraine
- 1972 The Streets of San Francisco ( 1 episode )
- 1975 Baretta ( 0 episode )
- 1976 Charlie's Angels ( 1 episode ) as Hutton
- 1993 Diagnosis: Murder ( 1 episode ) as Lily
- 1997 The Practice ( 1 episode ) as Judge G. Warner
- 1978 Dallas ( 2 episodes ) as Dr. Anita Krane
- 1987 Jake and the Fatman ( 1 episode )
- 1982 Voyagers! ( 1 episode )
- 1995 JAG ( 1 episode ) as Judge Gail Sanders
- 1984 Hunter ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Dudleigh
- 1972 The Waltons ( 2 episodes )
- 1994 ER ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Ferguson
- 1973 Police Story ( 1 episode )
- 1971 The Jimmy Stewart Show ( 24 episodes ) as Wendy Howard
- 1975 Archer ( 1 episode )
- 1972 Ghost Story ( 1 episode ) as Marian
- 2008 The Mentalist ( 1 episode ) as Grandmother
- 2009 The Middle ( 1 episode ) as Cynthia
- 1976 Quincy, M.E. ( 1 episode ) as Sarah Markham
- 1981 Code Red ( 1 episode )
- 2005 Supernatural ( 1 episode ) as Gert Case
- 1988 TV 101 ( 1 episode ) as Waitress
- 2003 NCIS ( 1 episode ) as Esther Daniels
- 1996 7th Heaven ( 1 episode ) as Joyce
- 1979 Paris ( 1 episode ) as Marie Castle
- 1973 Barnaby Jones ( 1 episode ) as Mary Wiley
- 1979 Tales of the Unexpected ( 1 episode ) as Stella Archer
- 1983 Trauma Center ( 1 episode )
- 2002 American Dreams ( 1 episode ) as Dorothy Day
- 1976 Delvecchio ( 1 episode ) as Edie Parker
- 1998 L.A. Doctors ( 1 episode )
- 1968 The Name of the Game ( 1 episode ) as Sally Henderson
- 2003 Nip/Tuck ( 1 episode ) as Annalise Anderson
- 2002 For the People ( 1 episode )
- 1987 Beauty and the Beast ( 20 episodes ) as Mary
