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Apr 24, 2020 · April 24, 2020 Elaine Mura Entertainment 1. Ellen Geer - Photo by Lisa Adams. Spread the love. Currently the matriarch of a theater dynasty, Ellen Geer followed in the family footsteps from an early age. Both her parents were actors, with her father Will Geer earning national fame as Grandfather Zeb Walton on TV’s 1960s hit, “The Waltons.”
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.
Ellen Geer - Turner Classic Movies. Overview. Biography. Filmography. Biography. Read More. Born in New York City to actors Will Geer and Herta Ware, Ellen Geer made her onscreen debut as a nun in the 1968 Richard Lester film "Petulia," which was followed up with an appearance in 1969's "The Reivers."
The daughter of actor Will Geer, Ellen Geer began her own stage career in the early 1960s. Among Ellen's first film roles were a nun in Richard Lester's Petulia (1968). and a hippie named Sunshine in Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude (1971). In 1971, Geer appeared as a regular on the brief TV sitcom The Jimmy Stewart Show, playing Stewart's daughter.
Ellen Geer - Oakland Symphony. Home Ellen Geer. Ellen Geer. narrator. Geer was born in New York City, the daughter of actors Herta Ware and Will Geer, who played grandfather Zebulon “Zeb” Walton on The Waltons.
Born in New York City to actors Will Geer and Herta Ware, Ellen Geer made her onscreen debut as a nun in the 1968 Richard Lester film "Petulia," which was followed up with an appearance in 1969's "The Reivers." In 1971 Geer landed a supporting role in the cult classic "Harold and Maude," playing the last of death-obsessed Harold's prearranged...
Ellen Geer is the presiding genius of Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum. We have all of us found this to be an astonishing place and we look forward to reflecting on our time here as part of the radio documentary we will be making and the book we will be compiling in light of our experiences.
