Will Geer
(March 9, 1902 - April 22, 1978) U.S.A.
Actor
Born in Frankfurt, Indiana as William Auge Geer. In the thirties he was the lover of the gay activist Harry Hay. He married Herta Ware and they had a daughter, Ellen. In 1951 he became a victim of the HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee) when they put him on a blacklist for being active in radical political organisations, which made him unable to get work until 1962. Geer later played the grandad in the TV-series "The Waltons".
Theatre:
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (1928)
- Hamlet
- Macbeth
- Twelfth Night
- Anthony and Cleopatra
- The School for Scandal
- The Wild duck
- The Cradle Will Rock
Films:
- Misleading Lady
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Union Pacific
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