Ellen Geer

Ellen Geer

Birthday: 1941-08-29

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0311619

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.

Played in movies:

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story

Score: 10.0

House at the End of the Drive

Score: 8.2

Harold and Maude

Score: 7.6

Over the Edge

Score: 7.1

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Score: 7.0

The Princess and the Cabbie

Score: 7.0

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

Score: 6.8

Practical Magic

Score: 6.8

Patriot Games

Score: 6.7

Clear and Present Danger

Score: 6.7

When a Man Loves a Woman

Score: 6.6

Phenomenon

Score: 6.5

Kotch

Score: 6.5

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Score: 6.4

Man in the Chair

Score: 6.4

The Reivers

Score: 6.4

Big Shots

Score: 6.3

Our House

Score: 6.3

The Odd Couple II

Score: 6.3

The Postman

Score: 6.3

Criminal

Score: 6.2

Creator

Score: 6.2

My Kidnapper, My Love

Score: 6.0

Bloody Birthday

Score: 5.9

Petulia

Score: 5.9

Unlovable

Score: 5.7

Heart Like a Wheel

Score: 5.6

Nancy Drew

Score: 5.6

Night Cries

Score: 5.5

Babe

Score: 5.5

Deadly Lessons

Score: 5.2

Crossworlds

Score: 5.1

The Visitation

Score: 4.9

June

Score: 4.6

I Want to Live

Score: 4.0

The Wild Pair

Score: 4.0

Lonely Hearts

Score: 3.5

A Shining Season

Score: 3.0

Midnight Witness

Score: 3.0

Satan's Princess

Score: 2.6

Memory of Us

Score: 0.0

Hard Traveling

Score: 0.0

The Gold Bracelet

Score: 0.0

Silence

Score: 0.0

A Different Affair

Score: 0.0

My Town

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Mentalist

Score: 8.4

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Score: 8.4

Supernatural

Score: 8.3

Bones

Score: 8.2

Charmed

Score: 8.2

Castle

Score: 8.0

Desperate Housewives

Score: 7.9

Carnivàle

Score: 7.9

ER

Score: 7.8

Cold Case

Score: 7.8

The Practice

Score: 7.7

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Score: 7.6

NCIS

Score: 7.6

The Middle

Score: 7.6

Voyagers!

Score: 7.5

Moonlighting

Score: 7.5

Archer

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Score: 7.5

Medium

Score: 7.5

Beauty and the Beast

Score: 7.4

JAG

Score: 7.3

Hunter

Score: 7.2

Girlfriends

Score: 7.2

Nip/Tuck

Score: 7.2

Ghost Story

Score: 7.1

The Waltons

Score: 7.1

Diagnosis: Murder

Score: 7.1

L.A. Doctors

Score: 7.0

The Bionic Woman

Score: 7.0

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

Barnaby Jones

Score: 6.9

Police Story

Score: 6.9

CHiPs

Score: 6.8

The Name of the Game

Score: 6.8

Dallas

Score: 6.8

Once and Again

Score: 6.8

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

Charlie's Angels

Score: 6.7

Baretta

Score: 6.4

7th Heaven

Score: 6.4

Jake and the Fatman

Score: 6.1

The Jimmy Stewart Show

Score: 6.0

Room 104

Score: 5.7

Falcon Crest

Score: 5.5

Code Red

Score: 5.5

American Dreams

Score: 5.1

Trauma Center

Score: 5.0

Paris

Score: 5.0

TV 101

Score: 5.0

Delvecchio

Score: 0.0