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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 29, 1941
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Ellen Geer
0.8 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Known For
Credits
Unlovable
as Nana
2018
5.6
Room 104
as Lorraine
2017
5.7
House at the End of the Drive
as Eunice Sequoia
2014
8.2
The Middle
as Cynthia
2009
7.6
Castle
as Vera Mulqueen
2009
8.0
The Mentalist
as Grandmother
2008
8.4
The Gold Bracelet
as Miss Hanson
2008
0.0
Man in the Chair
as Mrs. Erskine
2007
6.4
Our House
as Rose
2006
5.5
The Visitation
as Mrs. Macon
2006
4.9
Supernatural
as Gert Case
2005
8.3
Bones
as Anne Reilly
2005
8.2
Me and You and Everyone We Know
as Ellen
2005
7.0
Medium
as Grandma Benoit
2005
7.5
Desperate Housewives
as Lillian Sims
2004
7.9
Criminal
as Grandma
2004
6.2
June
as Grandma P.
2004
4.6
Cold Case
as Kay Lang
2003
7.8
NCIS
as Esther Daniels
2003
7.6
Carnivàle
as The Crone
2003
7.9
Nip/Tuck
as Annalise Anderson
2003
7.2
Nancy Drew
as Librarian
2002
5.6
American Dreams
as Dorothy Day
2002
5.1
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Ruth Elliott
2000
7.6
Girlfriends
as Elizabeth Bickle
2000
7.3
Once and Again
1999
6.6
Practical Magic
as Pharmacist
1998
6.8
Charmed
as Elderly Piper
1998
8.2
L.A. Doctors
1998
7.0
The Odd Couple II
as Frances Unger Melnick
1998
6.3
The Postman
as Mrs. Thompson
1997
6.3
The Practice
as Judge G. Warner
1997
7.6
7th Heaven
as Joyce
1996
6.4
Phenomenon
as Bonnie
1996
6.5
Crossworlds
as Joe's Mom
1996
5.1
JAG
as Judge Gail Sanders
1995
7.3
ER
as Mrs. Ferguson
1994
7.8
Clear and Present Danger
as Rose
1994
6.6
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
as Former Skater
1994
10.0
When a Man Loves a Woman
as Woman at Al-Anon
1994
6.6
Diagnosis: Murder
as Lily
1993
7.1
Midnight Witness
as Valerie
1993
2.8
Patriot Games
as Rose
1992
6.7
Lonely Hearts
as Martha
1991
3.3
Satan's Princess
as Mary Kulik
1989
2.4
TV 101
as Waitress
1988
5.0
The Wild Pair
as Fern Willis
1987
4.0
Big Shots
as Bar Waitress
1987
6.3
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Dr. Kila Marr
1987
8.4
Jake and the Fatman
1987
6.2
Beauty and the Beast
as Mary
1987
7.4
A Different Affair
as Mrs. Williams
1987
0.0
My Town
as Mother
1986
0.0
Hard Traveling
as Norah Sloan
1986
0.0
Creator
as Mrs. Spencer
1985
6.1
Moonlighting
as Amy Everette
1985
7.5
Hunter
as Mrs. Dudleigh
1984
7.1
Trauma Center
1983
5.0
I Want to Live
as Mrs. Cooley
1983
3.0
Something Wicked This Way Comes
as Mrs. Halloway
1983
6.4
Heart Like a Wheel
as Mrs. Marianne Kalitta
1983
5.4
Deadly Lessons
as Mrs. Grant
1983
5.2
Voyagers!
1982
7.5
Falcon Crest
as Doris
1981
5.6
🎬
The Princess and the Cabbie
as Nellie
1981
7.0
Code Red
1981
5.5
Bloody Birthday
as Madge
1981
5.9
My Kidnapper, My Love
as Paula Stanley
1980
6.0
A Shining Season
as Veta Mercer
1979
3.0
Paris
as Marie Castle
1979
5.0
Over the Edge
as Sandra Willat
1979
7.1
Tales of the Unexpected
as Stella Archer
1979
6.7
Dallas
as Dr. Anita Krane
1978
6.8
Night Cries
as Mrs. Whitney
1978
5.5
CHiPs
as Julie Barris
1977
6.8
Babe
as Lilly Didrikson
1977
5.5
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Sarah Markham
1976
7.5
Charlie's Angels
as Hutton
1976
6.7
Delvecchio
as Edie Parker
1976
0.0
The Bionic Woman
1976
6.9
🎬
Archer
1975
6.7
Baretta
1975
6.4
Memory of Us
as Betty
1974
0.0
🎬
Silence
as Barbara
1974
0.0
Police Story
1973
6.9
Barnaby Jones
as Mary Wiley
1973
6.9
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
Ghost Story
as Marian
1972
7.1
The Waltons
1972
7.2
Harold and Maude
as Sunshine Doré
1971
7.6
The Jimmy Stewart Show
as Wendy Howard
1971
6.0
Kotch
as Vera Kotcher
1971
6.5
The Reivers
as Sally
1969
6.3
The Name of the Game
as Sally Henderson
1968
6.8
Petulia
as Nun
1968
5.9
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SON OF A BARMAN
N/A
0.0