Ellen Geer
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.
Harold and Maude
(Sunshine Doré)
Me and You and Everyone We Know
(Ellen)
Over the Edge
(Sandra Willat)
The Visitation
(Mrs. Macon)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
(Mrs. Halloway)
Creator
(Mrs. Spencer)
Crossworlds
(Joe's Mom)
The Wild Pair
(Fern Willis)
Satan's Princess
(Mary Kulik)
Babe
(Lilly Didrikson)
Lonely Hearts
(Martha)
My Town
(Mother)
House at the End of the Drive
(Eunice Sequoia)
A Different Affair
(Mrs. Williams)
The Reivers
(Sally)
My Kidnapper, My Love
(Paula Stanley)
June
(Grandma P.)
The Princess and the Cabbie
(Nellie)
Man in the Chair
(Mrs. Erskine)
Kotch
(Vera Kotcher)
Bloody Birthday
(Madge)
Silence
(Barbara)
When a Man Loves a Woman
(Woman at Al-Anon)
Midnight Witness
(Valerie)
The Gold Bracelet
(Miss Hanson)
A Shining Season
(Veta Mercer)
The Postman
(Mrs. Thompson)
Night Cries
(Mrs. Whitney)
Nancy Drew
(Librarian)
Hard Traveling
(Norah Sloan)
Unlovable
(Nana)
Clear and Present Danger
(Rose)
Patriot Games
(Rose)
Memory of Us
(Betty)
The Odd Couple II
(Frances Unger Melnick)
Petulia
(Nun)
Criminal
(Grandma)
Deadly Lessons
(Mrs. Grant)
Our House
(Rose)
Heart Like a Wheel
(Mrs. Marianne Kalitta)
Phenomenon
(Bonnie)
Practical Magic
(Pharmacist)
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
I Want to Live
(Mrs. Cooley)
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
(Former Skater)
Medium
(Grandma Benoit)
Falcon Crest
(Doris)
CHiPs
(Julie Barris)
Carnivàle
(The Crone)
Castle
(Vera Mulqueen)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
(Ruth Elliott)
Once and Again
Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Dr. Kila Marr)
The Division
Desperate Housewives
(Lillian Sims)
The Bionic Woman
Bones
(Anne Reilly)
Cold Case
(Kay Lang)
Quincy, M.E.
Beauty and the Beast
(Mary)
Girlfriends
Charmed
(Elderly Piper)
Moonlighting
(Amy Everette)
Room 104
(Lorraine)
The Streets of San Francisco
Baretta
Charlie's Angels
(Hutton)
Diagnosis: Murder
(Lily)
The Practice
Dallas
(Dr. Anita Krane)
Jake and the Fatman
Voyagers!
JAG
(Judge Gail Sanders)
Hunter
(Mrs. Dudleigh)
The Waltons
ER
(Mrs. Ferguson)
Police Story
The Jimmy Stewart Show
(Wendy Howard)
Archer
Ghost Story
(Marian)
The Mentalist
(Grandmother)
The Middle
(Cynthia)
Quincy, M.E.
(Sarah Markham)
Code Red
Supernatural
(Gert Case)
TV 101
(Waitress)
NCIS
(Esther Daniels)
7th Heaven
(Joyce)
Paris
(Marie Castle)
Barnaby Jones
(Mary Wiley)
Tales of the Unexpected
(Stella Archer)
Trauma Center
American Dreams
(Dorothy Day)