Ellen Geer
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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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Films (47)
Unlovable
2018 · Nana
House at the End of the Drive
2014 · Eunice Sequoia
The Gold Bracelet
2008 · Miss Hanson
Man in the Chair
2007 · Mrs. Erskine
Our House
2006 · Rose
The Visitation
2006 · Mrs. Macon
Moi, toi et tous les autres
2005 · Ellen
Criminal
2004 · Grandma
June
2004 · Grandma P.
Nancy Drew, journaliste-détective
2002 · Librarian
Practical Magic
1998 · Pharmacist
The Odd Couple II
1998 · Frances Unger Melnick
The Postman
1997 · Mrs. Thompson
Phenomenon
1996 · Bonnie
Crossworlds
1996 · Joe's Mom
Clear and Present Danger
1994 · Rose
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
1994 · Former Skater
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994 · Woman at Al-Anon
Midnight Witness
1993 · Valerie
Patriot Games
1992 · Rose
Lonely Hearts
1991 · Martha
Satan's Princess
1989 · Mary Kulik
The Wild Pair
1987 · Fern Willis
Big Shots
1987 · Bar Waitress
A Different Affair
1987 · Mrs. Williams
My Town
1986 · Mother
Kung Fu: The Movie
1986 · Old Wife
Hard Traveling
1986 · Norah Sloan
Creator
1985 · Mrs. Spencer
I Want to Live
1983 · Mrs. Cooley
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983 · Mrs. Halloway
Heart Like a Wheel
1983 · Mrs. Marianne Kalitta
Deadly Lessons
1983 · Mrs. Grant
The Princess and the Cabbie
1981 · Nellie
Bloody Birthday
1981 · Madge
My Kidnapper, My Love
1980 · Paula Stanley
A Shining Season
1979 · Veta Mercer
Over the Edge
1979 · Sandra Willat
Night Cries
1978 · Mrs. Whitney
Babe
1977 · Lilly Didrikson
Memory of Us
1974 · Betty, Writer
Silence
1974 · Barbara, Writer
Harold and Maude
1971 · Sunshine Doré
Kotch
1971 · Vera Kotcher
The Reivers
1969 · Sally
Petulia
1968 · Nun
SON OF A BARMAN
Séries (51)
Room 104
2017 · Lorraine
The Middle
2009 · Cynthia
Castle
2009 · Vera Mulqueen
Mentalist
2008 · Grandmother
Bones
2005 · Anne Reilly
Surnaturel
2005 · Gert Case
Médium
2005 · Grandma Benoit
Beautés désespérées
2004 · Lillian Sims
Cold Case : Affaires classées
2003 · Kay Lang
NCIS : Enquêtes Spéciales
2003 · Esther Daniels
La Caravane de l'étrange
2003 · The Crone
Nip/Tuck
2003 · Annalise Anderson
Mes plus belles années
2002 · Dorothy Day
For the People
2002
Les Experts
2000 · Ruth Elliott
Girlfriends
2000 · Elizabeth Bickle
Once and Again
1999
Charmed
1998 · Elderly Piper
L.A. Doctors
1998
The Practice
1997 · Judge G. Warner
7th Heaven
1996 · Joyce
JAG
1995 · Judge Gail Sanders
ER
1994 · Mrs. Ferguson
Diagnosis: Murder
1993 · Lily
TV 101
1988 · Waitress
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987 · Dr. Kila Marr
Jake and the Fatman
1987
Beauty and the Beast
1987 · Mary
Moonlighting
1985 · Amy Everette
Hunter
1984 · Mrs. Dudleigh
Trauma Center
1983
Voyagers!
1982
Falcon Crest
1981 · Doris
Code Red
1981
Paris
1979 · Marie Castle
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Stella Archer
Dallas
1978 · Dr. Anita Krane
CHiPs
1977 · Julie Barris
Quincy, M.E.
1976 · Sarah Markham, Dr. Solomon
Charlie's Angels
1976 · Hutton
Delvecchio
1976 · Edie Parker
The Bionic Woman
1976
Archer
1975
Baretta
1975
Police Story
1973
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Mary Wiley
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Ghost Story
1972 · Marian
The Waltons
1972
The Jimmy Stewart Show
1971 · Wendy Howard
The Name of the Game
1968 · Sally Henderson