Ellen Geer

Known for ActingBorn 1941-08-29 (age 85)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

For the People

Hard Traveling

The Gold Bracelet

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story

House at the End of the Drive

Silence

The Mentalist

L.A. Doctors

Supernatural

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Bones

Charmed

Castle

Desperate Housewives

Carnivàle

ER

Memory of Us

Cold Case

The Middle

NCIS

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

The Practice

Medium

Archer

Voyagers!

Moonlighting

Harold and Maude

My Kidnapper, My Love

Girlfriends

Beauty and the Beast

Quincy, M.E.

Nip/Tuck

JAG

Ghost Story

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Diagnosis: Murder

Hunter

Over the Edge

TV 101

A Different Affair

My Town

Trauma Center

The Streets of San Francisco

The Waltons

Practical Magic

The Princess and the Cabbie

Code Red

The Bionic Woman