Ellen Geer
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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.
Acted in
Unlovable
2018
as Nana
Room 104
2017
as Lorraine
House at the End of the Drive
2014
as Eunice Sequoia
The Middle
2009
as Cynthia
Castle
2009
as Vera Mulqueen
The Mentalist
2008
as Grandmother
The Gold Bracelet
2008
as Miss Hanson
Man in the Chair
2007
as Mrs. Erskine
Our House
2006
as Rose
The Visitation
2006
as Mrs. Macon
Bones
2005
as Anne Reilly
Supernatural
2005
as Gert Case
Me and You and Everyone We Know
2005
as Ellen
Medium
2005
as Grandma Benoit
Desperate Housewives
2004
as Lillian Sims
Criminal
2004
as Grandma
June
2004
as Grandma P.
Cold Case
2003
as Kay Lang
NCIS
2003
as Esther Daniels
Carnivàle
2003
as The Crone
Nancy Drew
2002
as Librarian
American Dreams
2002
as Dorothy Day
The Division
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
as Ruth Elliott
Girlfriends
2000
Once and Again
1999
Practical Magic
1998
as Pharmacist
Charmed
1998
as Elderly Piper
The Odd Couple II
1998
as Frances Unger Melnick
The Postman
1997
as Mrs. Thompson
The Practice
1997
7th Heaven
1996
as Joyce
Phenomenon
1996
as Bonnie
Crossworlds
1996
as Joe's Mom
JAG
1995
as Judge Gail Sanders
ER
1994
as Mrs. Ferguson
Clear and Present Danger
1994
as Rose
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994
as Woman at Al-Anon
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
as Lily
Midnight Witness
1993
as Valerie
Patriot Games
1992
as Rose
Lonely Hearts
1991
as Martha
Satan's Princess
1989
as Mary Kulik
TV 101
1988
as Waitress
The Wild Pair
1987
as Fern Willis
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Dr. Kila Marr
Jake and the Fatman
1987
Beauty and the Beast
1987
as Mary
A Different Affair
1987
as Mrs. Williams
My Town
1986
as Mother
Hard Traveling
1986
as Norah Sloan
Creator
1985
as Mrs. Spencer
Moonlighting
1985
as Amy Everette
Hunter
1984
as Mrs. Dudleigh
Trauma Center
1983
I Want to Live
1983
as Mrs. Cooley
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983
as Mrs. Halloway
Heart Like a Wheel
1983
as Mrs. Marianne Kalitta
Deadly Lessons
1983
as Mrs. Grant
Voyagers!
1982
Falcon Crest
1981
as Doris
The Princess and the Cabbie
1981
as Nellie
Code Red
1981
Bloody Birthday
1981
as Madge
My Kidnapper, My Love
1980
as Paula Stanley
A Shining Season
1979
as Veta Mercer
Paris
1979
as Marie Castle
Over the Edge
1979
as Sandra Willat
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Stella Archer
Dallas
1978
as Dr. Anita Krane
Night Cries
1978
as Mrs. Whitney
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1977
CHiPs
1977
as Julie Barris
Quincy, M.E.
1976
Quincy, M.E.
1976
as Sarah Markham
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Hutton
The Bionic Woman
1976
Babe
1975
as Lilly Didrikson
Archer
1975
Baretta
1975
Memory of Us
1974
as Betty
Silence
1974
as Barbara
Police Story
1973
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Mary Wiley
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Ghost Story
1972
as Marian
The Waltons
1972
Harold and Maude
1971
as Sunshine Doré
The Jimmy Stewart Show
1971
as Wendy Howard
Kotch
1971
as Vera Kotcher
The Reivers
1969
as Sally
Petulia
1968
as Nun