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name: "Ellen Geer"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 August 1941"
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average_fi1m_score: 78
updated: "2026-09-16T10:16:36.631576+00:00"
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# Ellen Geer

Actor. Born 29 August 1941 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 August 1941, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1971–2005

## Biography

Ellen Geer is an American actress, theatre director and professor. Born in New York City, she is the daughter of actors Will Geer and Herta Ware. She began her screen career with a role in the 1968 film *Petulia* and appeared in *The Reivers* (1969) alongside her father.

Geer is known for supporting roles in films including *Harold and Maude* (1971), *Patriot Games* (1992) and *Practical Magic* (1998), as well as numerous television guest appearances such as in *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), *Supernatural* (2005) and *Me and You and Everyone We Know* (2005). Since 1978 she has served as artistic director of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, California, where she has also acted and directed.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Me and You and Everyone We Know* (2005), Fi1m 74, as Ellen — [page](https://film.one/film/me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know.md)
- *Harold and Maude* (1971), Fi1m 81, as Sunshine Doré — [page](https://film.one/film/harold-and-maude.md)

## Also known for

- *Supernatural* (2005), Gert Case
- *The Mentalist* (2008), Grandmother
- *Bones* (2005), Anne Reilly
- *Charmed* (1998), Elderly Piper
- *NCIS* (2003), Esther Daniels
- *Castle* (2009), Vera Mulqueen
- *Desperate Housewives* (2004), Lillian Sims
- *Practical Magic* (1998), Pharmacist

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