Biography
Will Geer was an American actor, musician, and social activist who was active in labor organizing and communist movements in New York City and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California, he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York City for a time in the 1940s. He was blacklisted in the 1950s by Hollywood after refusing, in testimony before Congress, to name persons who had joined the Communist Party USA.
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Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series · 1975
Filmography44 titles
Columbo
Bewitched
Kung Fu
Mission: Impossible
In Cold Blood
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Bonanza
Intruder in the Dust
Starsky & Hutch
Jeremiah Johnson
Seconds
Winchester '73
The Waltons
Hawaii Five-O
Bright Victory
A Woman Called Moses
Daniel Boone
Salt of the Earth
Gunsmoke
Broken Arrow
Bandolero!
Executive Action
Brother John
The Reivers
The Love Boat
Napoleon and Samantha
Unknown Powers
Eight Is Enough
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Mayberry R.F.D.
Black Like Me
Convicted
Lust for Gold
The Billion Dollar Hobo
The President's Analyst
It's a Small World
Becky Sharp
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
The Kid from Texas
Comanche Territory
Pieces of Dreams
The Hanged Man
The Crucible
The New Deal for Artists