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Will Geer
Catalogued films 59Actor 59
Will Geer (born William Aughe Ghere; March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor, musician, and social activist, who was active in labor organizing and other movements in New York and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York 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. In his later years, he was well known for his role as the grandfather figure Zebulon Walton in the TV series The Waltons until his death.
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Rip Van Winkle
The Mafu Cage
Unknown Powers
The Billion Dollar Hobo
Bunco
Moving Violation
Law and Order
The Blue Bird
The Night That Panicked America
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Hurricane
Memory of Us
Silence
Honky Tonk
The Hanged Man
Executive Action
Isn't It Shocking?
A Gift of Terror
Savage
Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
Brock's Last Case
Jeremiah Johnson
Napoleon and Samantha
The Rowdyman
Dear Dead Delilah
Brother John
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Pieces of Dreams
The Brotherhood of the Bell
The Moonshine War
The Reivers
Certain Honorable Men
Bandolero!
Of Mice and Men
The President's Analyst
In Cold Blood
The Crucible
Seconds
Black Like Me
Mobs, Inc.
Salt of the Earth
The Barefoot Mailman
The Tall Target
Bright Victory
Double Crossbones
To Please a Lady
Convicted
Broken Arrow
Winchester '73
It's a Small World
Comanche Territory
The Kid from Texas
Intruder in the Dust
Anna Lucasta
Lust for Gold
Johnny Allegro
Deep Waters
The Fight for Life
Spitfire