Will Geer
Actor Will Geer originally studied to become a botanist, getting a master's degree at the University of Chicago, where he became heavily involved in left-wing politics. He had a small part in Cecil B. DeMille's epic western "Union Pacific," but worked mainly on the stage in the 1940s before coming back to movies in westerns such as "Lust for Gold" with Ida Lupino, and the superb Anthony Mann movie "Winchester '73," which starred James Stewart. Mann used Geer again in "The Tall Target," but at this point, Geer's left-wing leanings, expressed most fully in the infamous 1954 propaganda movie "Salt of the Earth," got him blacklisted in Hollywood, and so there was a large gap in his work until he returned to act in Otto Preminger's controversial "Advise and Consent" in 1962. In his later years, Geer acted mainly on television, and he won acclaim as the grandfather on the long-running family series "The Waltons" in the 1970s.
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Will Geer
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unknown Powers | Unknown (Character) | - | 1979 |
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My Sister, My Love | Zom (Character) | - | 1978 |
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A Woman Called Moses | Thomas Garrett (Character) | - | 1978 |
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The Billion Dollar Hobo | Choo-Choo Trayne (Character) | - | 1978 |
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Moving Violation | Rockfield (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law and Order | Pat Crowley (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Night That Panicked America | Reverend Davis (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hurricane | Dr. McCutcheon (Character) | - | 1974 |
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The Hanged Man | Nameless (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honky-Tonk | Judge Cotton (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Memory of Us | Motel Manager (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery | Dr. Simpson (Character) | - | 1973 |
60% |
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Executive Action | Ferguson (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gift of Terror | Ben (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brock's Last Case | J. Smiley Krenshaw (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Silence | Unknown (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry-O | Len McNeil (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Isn't It Shocking? | Lemuel Lovell (Character) | - | 1973 |
91% |
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Jeremiah Johnson | Bear Claw (Character) | - | 1972 |
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Dear, Dead Delilah | Roy Jurroe (Character) | - | 1972 |
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The Rowdyman | Stan (Character) | - | 1972 |
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Savage | Joel Ryker (Character) | - | 1972 |
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Brother John | Doc Thomas (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? | Simon Anderson (Character) | - | 1971 |
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The Moonshine War | Mr. Baylor (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pieces of Dreams | The Bishop (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One of the Girls in Research | Mac (Character) | - | 1970 |
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The Brotherhood of the Bell | Mike Patterson (Character) | - | 1970 |
83% |
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The Reivers | Boss (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Of Mice and Men | Candy (Character) | - | 1968 |
20% |
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Bandolero! | Pop Chaney (Character) | - | 1968 |
77% |
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The President's Analyst | Dr. Lee-Evans (Character) | - | 1967 |
76% |
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In Cold Blood | Prosecutor (Character) | - | 1967 |
79% |
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Seconds | Old Man (Character) | - | 1966 |
100% |
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Salt of the Earth | Sheriff (Character) | $1.3M | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Con Man | Harry Robinson (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Crossbones | Tom Botts (Character) | - | 1951 |
100% |
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The Tall Target | Homer Crowley (Character) | - | 1951 |
100% |
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Bright Victory | Mr. Lawrence Nevins (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Kid From Texas | O'Fallon (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It's a Small World | William Musk (Character) | - | 1950 |
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To Please a Lady | Jack Mackay (Character) | - | 1950 |
91% |
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Broken Arrow | Ben Slade (Character) | - | 1950 |
100% |
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Winchester '73 | Wyatt Earp (Character) | - | 1950 |
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Convicted | Convict Mapes (Character) | - | 1950 |
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Comanche Territory | Dan'l Seeger (Character) | - | 1950 |
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Johnny Allegro | Schultzy (Character) | - | 1949 |
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Lust for Gold | Deputy Ray Covin (Character) | - | 1949 |
93% |
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Intruder in the Dust | Sheriff Hampton (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anna Lucasta | Noah (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fight for Life | 2nd Teacher (Character) | - | 1940 |
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Spitfire | West Fry (Character) | - | 1934 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Waltons | Zeb "Grandpa" Walton (Character) | 1972-1978 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Love Boat | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eight Is Enough | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hee Haw | Guest | 1976 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Kung Fu | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Columbo | Dr. Edmund Hidemann (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sixth Sense | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Bewitched | President George Washington (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969-1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Courtship of Eddie's Father | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daniel Boone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here Come the Brides | Benjamin Pruitt (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mayberry R.F.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Slocum (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Garrison's Gorillas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trials of O'Brien | Judge Lindemann (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East Side/West Side | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |