Ellen Geer

Acting

Born August 29, 1941, 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.

Filmography

• 2018Unlovable — Nana
• Room 104 — Lorraine
• 2014House at the End of the Drive — Eunice Sequoia
• Castle — Vera Mulqueen
• The Middle — Cynthia
• 2008The Gold Bracelet — Miss Hanson
• The Mentalist — Grandmother
• 2007Man in the Chair — Mrs. Erskine
• 2006Our House — Rose
• 2006The Visitation — Mrs. Macon
• Bones — Anne Reilly
• 2005Me and You and Everyone We Know — Ellen
• Medium — Grandma Benoit
• Supernatural — Gert Case
• 2004Criminal — Grandma
• Desperate Housewives — Lillian Sims
• 2004June — Grandma P.
• Carnivàle — The Crone
• Cold Case — Kay Lang
• NCIS — Esther Daniels
• Nip/Tuck — Annalise Anderson
• American Dreams — Dorothy Day
• For the People
• 2002Nancy Drew — Librarian
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Ruth Elliott
• Girlfriends — Elizabeth Bickle
• Once and Again
• Charmed — Elderly Piper
• L.A. Doctors
• 1998Practical Magic — Pharmacist
• 1998The Odd Couple II — Frances Unger Melnick
• 1997The Postman — Mrs. Thompson
• The Practice — Judge G. Warner
• 7th Heaven — Joyce
• 1996Crossworlds — Joe's Mom
• 1996Phenomenon — Bonnie
• JAG — Judge Gail Sanders
• 1994Clear and Present Danger — Rose
• ER — Mrs. Ferguson
• 1994Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story — Former Skater
• 1994When a Man Loves a Woman — Woman at Al-Anon
• Diagnosis: Murder — Lily
• 1993Midnight Witness — Valerie
• 1992Patriot Games — Rose
• 1991Lonely Hearts — Martha
• 1989Satan's Princess — Mary Kulik
• TV 101 — Waitress
• 1987A Different Affair — Mrs. Williams
• Beauty and the Beast — Mary
• 1987Big Shots — Bar Waitress
• Jake and the Fatman
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Dr. Kila Marr
• 1987The Wild Pair — Fern Willis
• 1986Hard Traveling — Norah Sloan
• 1986My Town — Mother
• 1985Creator — Mrs. Spencer
• Moonlighting — Amy Everette
• Hunter — Mrs. Dudleigh
• 1983Deadly Lessons — Mrs. Grant
• 1983Heart Like a Wheel — Mrs. Marianne Kalitta
• 1983I Want to Live — Mrs. Cooley
• 1983Something Wicked This Way Comes — Mrs. Halloway
• Trauma Center
• Voyagers!
• 1981Bloody Birthday — Madge
• Code Red
• Falcon Crest — Doris
• 1981The Princess and the Cabbie — Nellie
• 1980My Kidnapper, My Love — Paula Stanley
• 1979A Shining Season — Veta Mercer
• 1979Over the Edge — Sandra Willat
• Paris — Marie Castle
• Tales of the Unexpected — Stella Archer
• Dallas — Dr. Anita Krane
• 1978Night Cries — Mrs. Whitney
• 1977Babe — Lilly Didrikson
• CHiPs — Julie Barris
• Charlie's Angels — Hutton
• Delvecchio — Edie Parker
• Quincy, M.E. — Sarah Markham
• The Bionic Woman
• Archer
• Baretta
• 1974Memory of Us — Betty, Writer
• 1974Silence — Barbara, Writer
• Barnaby Jones — Mary Wiley
• Police Story
• Ghost Story — Marian
• The Streets of San Francisco
• The Waltons
• 1971Harold and Maude — Sunshine Doré
• 1971Kotch — Vera Kotcher
• The Jimmy Stewart Show — Wendy Howard
• 1969The Reivers — Sally
• 1968Petulia — Nun
• The Name of the Game — Sally Henderson
• SON OF A BARMAN