Ellen Geer
Acting • Born 1941-08-29
Biography
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
98 credits
Harold and Maude
Movie • 1971
Sunshine Doré
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Movie • 2005
Ellen
Over the Edge
Movie • 1979
Sandra Willat
The Visitation
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Macon
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Halloway
Creator
Movie • 1985
Mrs. Spencer
Crossworlds
Movie • 1996
Joe's Mom
The Wild Pair
Movie • 1987
Fern Willis
Satan's Princess
Movie • 1989
Mary Kulik
Babe
Movie • 1977
Lilly Didrikson
Lonely Hearts
Movie • 1991
Martha
My Town
Movie • 1986
Mother
House at the End of the Drive
Movie • 2014
Eunice Sequoia
A Different Affair
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Williams
The Reivers
Movie • 1969
Sally
My Kidnapper, My Love
Movie • 1980
Paula Stanley
June
Movie • 2004
Grandma P.
The Princess and the Cabbie
Movie • 1981
Nellie
Man in the Chair
Movie • 2007
Mrs. Erskine
Kotch
Movie • 1971
Vera Kotcher
Bloody Birthday
Movie • 1981
Madge
Silence
Movie • 1974
Barbara
When a Man Loves a Woman
Movie • 1994
Woman at Al-Anon
Midnight Witness
Movie • 1993
Valerie
The Gold Bracelet
Movie • 2008
Miss Hanson
A Shining Season
Movie • 1979
Veta Mercer
The Postman
Movie • 1997
Mrs. Thompson
Night Cries
Movie • 1978
Mrs. Whitney
Nancy Drew
Movie • 2002
Librarian
Hard Traveling
Movie • 1986
Norah Sloan
Unlovable
Movie • 2018
Nana
Clear and Present Danger
Movie • 1994
Rose
Patriot Games
Movie • 1992
Rose
Memory of Us
Movie • 1974
Betty
The Odd Couple II
Movie • 1998
Frances Unger Melnick
Petulia
Movie • 1968
Nun
Criminal
Movie • 2004
Grandma
Deadly Lessons
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Grant
Our House
Movie • 2006
Rose
Heart Like a Wheel
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Marianne Kalitta
Phenomenon
Movie • 1996
Bonnie
Practical Magic
Movie • 1998
Pharmacist
I Want to Live
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Cooley
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
Movie • 1994
Former Skater
Big Shots
Movie • 1987
Bar Waitress
SON OF A BARMAN
Movie
Medium
TV • 2005
Grandma Benoit
Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
Doris
CHiPs
TV • 1977
Julie Barris
Carnivàle
TV • 2003
The Crone
Castle
TV • 2009
Vera Mulqueen
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Ruth Elliott
Once and Again
TV • 1999
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Dr. Kila Marr
Desperate Housewives
TV • 2004
Lillian Sims
The Bionic Woman
TV • 1976
Bones
TV • 2005
Anne Reilly
Cold Case
TV • 2003
Kay Lang
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Beauty and the Beast
TV • 1987
Mary
Girlfriends
TV • 2000
Elizabeth Bickle
Moonlighting
TV • 1985
Amy Everette
Charmed
TV • 1998
Elderly Piper
Room 104
TV • 2017
Lorraine
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Baretta
TV • 1975
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Hutton
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Lily
The Practice
TV • 1997
Judge G. Warner
Dallas
TV • 1978
Dr. Anita Krane
Jake and the Fatman
TV • 1987
Voyagers!
TV • 1982
JAG
TV • 1995
Judge Gail Sanders
Hunter
TV • 1984
Mrs. Dudleigh
The Waltons
TV • 1972
ER
TV • 1994
Mrs. Ferguson
Police Story
TV • 1973
The Jimmy Stewart Show
TV • 1971
Wendy Howard
Archer
TV • 1975
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
Marian
The Mentalist
TV • 2008
Grandmother
The Middle
TV • 2009
Cynthia
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Sarah Markham
Code Red
TV • 1981
Supernatural
TV • 2005
Gert Case
TV 101
TV • 1988
Waitress
NCIS
TV • 2003
Esther Daniels
7th Heaven
TV • 1996
Joyce
Paris
TV • 1979
Marie Castle
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Mary Wiley
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Stella Archer
Trauma Center
TV • 1983
American Dreams
TV • 2002
Dorothy Day
Delvecchio
TV • 1976
Edie Parker
L.A. Doctors
TV • 1998
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Sally Henderson
Nip/Tuck
TV • 2003
Annalise Anderson
For the People
TV • 2002