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Will Geer (born William Aughe Ghere; March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor, musician, and social activist, who was active in labor organizing and other movements in New York and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York for a time in the ...
Will Geer was a versatile and long-lived performer who starred in Broadway, movies, and TV, including The Waltons. He was also a political radical, a folklorist, and a founder of the Theatricum Botanicum in California.
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Will Geer was an actor, activist and folklorist who played Zebulon Walton in The Waltons. He had a degree in horticulture, a passion for Shakespeare and a rebellious spirit.
- March 9, 1902
- April 22, 1978
Apr 24, 1978 · Geer recalled once that his first professional role on stage was as Pistol in “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” And years later, Mr. Geer even wrote a book on the 1,000 plants referred to in ...
His diverse entertainment career and his social activism put him on many paths in his life, but eventually led him to become in the 1970s the heart and soul ...
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Will Geer (1902-1978) was a United States actor, musician, and social activist. Among other things, he is well known for his role as Grandpa Zebulon “Zeb” Walton in the TV-series The Waltons, a role he performed from 1972 until his death in 1978, and which garnered him widespread fame and also earned him an Emmy Award.
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Will Geer was an American actor, musician, and social activist, who was active in labor organizing and other movements in New York and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York for a time in the 1940s. He was blacklisted in the 1950s by Hollywood after refusing, in testimony before Congress, to name persons ...
