Ellen Geer
Ellen Geer was born in New York City, New York, United States on August 29th, 1941 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 82, Ellen Geer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Ellen Ware Geer (born August 29, 1941) is an American actress, lecturer, and theatre producer.
Personal life
Geer was born in New York City and the niece of actors Herta Ware and Will Geer. Her father was best known for playing Grandpa Zebulon "Zeb" Walton on The Waltons.
She is married to children's singer Peter Alsop and has been married to actor Ed Flanders before. Ian Geer Flanders, she and Flanders' son, was a student at the University of Flanders. Megan and Willow are her two children, and Megan and Willow are both married.
Career
Geer appeared in the first seasons of the original Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she appeared in Guthrie's production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.
In the 1968 Richard Lester film Petulia, Geer began her film career as a nun. She continued her appearance in 1969's The Reivers with her father Will Geer.
Geer played the deceased wife of the lead character in Kotch in 1971, appearing throughout the film in flashbacks. She appeared on The Jimmy Stewart Show (which aired the following year) and appeared in the acclaimed comedy Harold and Maude for a year. She appeared in two films in 1974, both of which featured her father.
The remainder of Geer's 1970s career consisted mostly of guest appearances and made-for-television films. Police Story, The Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, Barnaby Jones, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, and two episodes of Fantasy Island were among the television series on which she appeared during this period.
Babe (1975), The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976), and A Shining Season (1979). Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge, 1979, was the only theatrical film on which she appeared in the late 1970s.
The remainder of her television appearances include appearances in "Silicon Avatar," The Waltons, Quincy, M.E., Dallas, The Practice, Stingray, Crime Scene Investigation, The First Responder, NYPD Blue, and Cold Case. She has appeared on Falcon Crest and Beauty, as well as the Beast. In the series finale, Piper Halliwell appeared as an elderly Piper Halliwell. In October 2007, the actress returned to Desperate Housewives, where she appeared briefly before. In the episode "The Blue Butterfly," she appeared in the fourth season of Castle.
Geer has been an artistic director of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, a professional repertory, open-air theater in Topanga Canyon, California, since 1978. Geer has also worked as a visiting associate professor teaching acting at the University of California's Los Angeles School of Theatre for 12 years.