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Will Geer

1902–1978 · American actor and activist

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.

Will Geer, in order

  1. 1934 Spitfire: acted · directed by John Cromwell
  2. 1935 The Mystery of Edwin Drood: acted · directed by Stuart Walker · critics 63%, audiences 14%
  3. 1940 The Fight for Life: acted · directed by Pare Lorentz
  4. 1949 Intruder in the Dust: acted · directed by Clarence Brown
  5. 1949 Johnny Allegro: acted · directed by Ted Tetzlaff
  6. 1950 Anna Lucasta: acted · directed by Irving Rapper
  7. 1950 Broken Arrow: acted · directed by Delmer Daves
  8. 1950 Comanche Territory: acted · directed by George Sherman
  9. 1950 Lust for Gold: acted · directed by S. Sylvan Simon
  10. 1950 The Kid from Texas: acted · directed by Kurt Neumann
  11. 1950 To Please a Lady: acted · directed by Clarence Brown · audiences 29% · streaming on HBO Max
  12. 1950 Winchester '73: acted · directed by Anthony Mann
  13. 1951 Bright Victory: acted · directed by Mark Robson
  14. 1951 Double Crossbones: acted · directed by Charles Barton · streaming on Fawesome
  15. 1951 The Barefoot Mailman: acted · directed by Earl McEvoy
  16. 1951 The Tall Target: acted · directed by Anthony Mann
  17. 1954 Salt of the Earth: acted · directed by Herbert Biberman
  18. 1962 Advise & Consent: acted · directed by Otto Preminger · critics 77%, audiences 88%
  19. 1966 Seconds: acted · directed by John Frankenheimer · critics 79%, audiences 87% · streaming on Kanopy
  20. 1967 In Cold Blood: acted · directed by Richard Brooks
  21. 1967 The President's Analyst: acted · directed by Theodore J. Flicker
  22. 1968 Bandolero!: acted · directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
  23. 1969 The Reivers: acted · directed by Mark Rydell · critics 83%, audiences 48%
  24. 1970 Pieces of Dreams: acted · directed by Daniel Haller
  25. 1970 The Brotherhood of the Bell (TV movie): acted · directed by Paul Wendkos
  26. 1970 The Moonshine War: acted · directed by Richard Quine
  27. 1971 Brother John: acted · directed by James Goldstone
  28. 1972 Jeremiah Johnson: acted · directed by Sydney Pollack
  29. 1972 Napoleon and Samantha: acted · directed by Bernard McEveety · audiences 43%
  30. 1972 The Waltons (TV series): acted · directed by Alf Kjellin and Bernard McEveety · streaming on Prime Video, Peacock, Philo
  31. 1973 Executive Action: acted · directed by David Miller
  32. 1974 Honky Tonk (TV movie): acted · directed by Don Taylor
  33. 1976 Law and Order (TV movie): acted · directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
  34. 1976 Moving Violation: acted · directed by Charles S. Dubin
  35. 1976 The Blue Bird: acted · directed by George Cukor
  36. 1977 The Billion Dollar Hobo: acted · directed by Stuart E. McGowan
  37. 1979 The Mafu Cage: acted · directed by Karen Arthur