Ellen Geer

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1941-08-29 (83 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Ellen Geer

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.

Known For

Actor

2018
Unlovable

as Nana

2017
Room 104

as Lorraine

2014
2009
The Middle

as Cynthia

2009
Castle

as Vera Mulqueen

2008
The Gold Bracelet

as Miss Hanson

2008
The Mentalist

as Grandmother

2007
Man in the Chair

as Mrs. Erskine

2006
Our House

as Rose

2006
The Visitation

as Mrs. Macon

2005
Bones

as Anne Reilly

2005
Supernatural

as Gert Case

2005
Medium

as Grandma Benoit

2004
Criminal

as Grandma

2004
June

as Grandma P.

2004
Desperate Housewives

as Lillian Sims

2003
Cold Case

as Kay Lang

2003
NCIS

as Esther Daniels

2003
Carnivàle

as The Crone

2002
Nancy Drew

as Librarian

2002
American Dreams

as Dorothy Day

2000
1998
Practical Magic

as Pharmacist

1998
The Odd Couple II

as Frances Unger Melnick

1998
Charmed

as Elderly Piper

1997
The Postman

as Mrs. Thompson

1996
Phenomenon

as Bonnie

1996
Crossworlds

as Joe's Mom

1996
7th Heaven

as Joyce

1995
JAG

as Judge Gail Sanders

1994
1994
When a Man Loves a Woman

as Woman at Al-Anon

1994
ER

as Mrs. Ferguson

1993
Midnight Witness

as Valerie

1993
1992
1991
Lonely Hearts

as Martha

1989
Satan's Princess

as Mary Kulik

1988
TV 101

as Waitress

1987
The Wild Pair

as Fern Willis

1987
A Different Affair

as Mrs. Williams

1987
1986
My Town

as Mother

1986
Hard Traveling

as Norah Sloan

1985
Creator

as Mrs. Spencer

1985
Moonlighting

as Amy Everette

1984
Hunter

as Mrs. Dudleigh

1983
I Want to Live

as Mrs. Cooley

1983
1983
Heart Like a Wheel

as Mrs. Marianne Kalitta

1983
Deadly Lessons

as Mrs. Grant

1981
1981
Falcon Crest

as Doris

1980
My Kidnapper, My Love

as Paula Stanley

1979
A Shining Season

as Veta Mercer

1979
Over the Edge

as Sandra Willat

1979
Paris

as Marie Castle

1979
Tales of the Unexpected

as Stella Archer

1978
Night Cries

as Mrs. Whitney

1978
Dallas

as Dr. Anita Krane

1977
CHiPs

as Julie Barris

1976
Quincy, M.E.

as Sarah Markham

1976
1975
Babe

as Lilly Didrikson

1975
1974
Memory of Us

as Betty

1974
Silence

as Barbara

1973
Barnaby Jones

as Mary Wiley

1972
Ghost Story

as Marian

1971
Harold and Maude

as Sunshine Doré

1971
Kotch

as Vera Kotcher

1971
The Jimmy Stewart Show

as Wendy Howard

1969
The Reivers

as Sally

1968
Petulia

as Nun

Writer

1974
Silence

as Writer

1974
Memory of Us

as Writer