Cast & creator
Ellen Geer
Best known for The Mentalist, Supernatural, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ellen Ware Geer (born August 29, 1941) is an American actress, professor, screenwriter, film director and theatre director.Geer has enjoyed a long, distinguished career in film and television. She began her career appearing as a nun in the 1968 Richard Lester drama Petulia. Geer followed this with an appearance in 1969's The Reivers with her father, Will Geer. In 1971, Geer played the deceased wife of the lead character in Kotch, appearing throughout the movie in flashbacks. That same year, she became a regular on The Jimmy Stewart Show (which aired until the following year) and had a supporting role in the acclaimed comedy Harold and Maude. In 1974, she starred in two films which she also wrote: Silence and Memory of Us. Both featured her father. The remainder of Geer's 1970s career consisted primarily of guest appearances and made-for-TV movies. TV shows on which she appeared during this time included Police Story, The Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, Barnaby Jones, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, and two episodes of Fantasy Island. Her TV movie credits during this time included Babe (1975), The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976), The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977), and A Shining Season (1979). The only theatrical film on which she worked in the late '70s was Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge in 1979. The remainder of her TV credits include guest appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, Quincy, M.E., Dallas, The Practice, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, NYPD Blue, and Cold Case. She also had recurring roles on Falcon Crest and Beauty and the Beast. She played future Piper Halliwell on the WB series Charmed in the series finale. In October 2007, the actress returned briefly to Desperate Housewives which she briefly appeared in before. Geer has served since 1978 as Artistic Director of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, a professional repertory, open-air theater in Topanga Canyon, California. Geer has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor, teaching acting, at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater for 12 years.
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film credits
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television credits
98
1968–2018 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (100)
Showing 100 of 100 credits
The Mentalist
Grandmother
2008
Supernatural
Gert Case
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Ruth Elliott
2000
NCIS
Esther Daniels
2003
Bones
Anne Reilly
2005
Castle
Vera Mulqueen
2009
Desperate Housewives
Lillian Sims
2004
JAG
Judge Gail Sanders
1995
Charmed
Elderly Piper
1998
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Dr. Kila Marr
1987
Diagnosis: Murder
Lily
1993
The Middle
Cynthia
2009
Medium
Grandma Benoit
2005
Nip/Tuck
Annalise Anderson
2003
ER
Mrs. Ferguson
1994
The Practice
Judge G. Warner
1997
Dallas
Dr. Anita Krane
1978
Falcon Crest
Doris
1981
Cold Case
Kay Lang
2003
Quincy, M.E.
1976Quincy, M.E.
Sarah Markham
1976
Charlie's Angels
Hutton
1976
The Waltons
1972
Jake and the Fatman
1987
Girlfriends
Elizabeth Bickle
2000
Tales of the Unexpected
Stella Archer
1979
The Name of the Game
Sally Henderson
1968
Moonlighting
Amy Everette
1985
Hunter
Mrs. Dudleigh
1984
Barnaby Jones
Mary Wiley
1973
7th Heaven
Joyce
1996
American Dreams
Dorothy Day
2002
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Practical Magic
Pharmacist
1998
Baretta
1975
The Bionic Woman
1976
Police Story
1973
Carnivàle
The Crone
2003
Room 104
Lorraine
2017
Once and Again
1999
CHiPs
Julie Barris
1977
L.A. Doctors
1998
Ghost Story
Marian
1972
Voyagers!
1982
TV 101
Waitress
1988
Delvecchio
Edie Parker
1976For the People
2002
Trauma Center
1983
Patriot Games
Rose
1992
Clear and Present Danger
Rose
1994
Code Red
1981
The Postman
Mrs. Thompson
1997
Phenomenon
Bonnie
1996
Harold and Maude
Sunshine Doré
1971
The Jimmy Stewart Show
Wendy Howard
1971
Paris
Marie Castle
1979
When a Man Loves a Woman
Woman at Al-Anon
1994
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Mrs. Halloway
1983
The Odd Couple II
Frances Unger Melnick
1998
Over the Edge
Sandra Willat
1979
Archer
1975
Petulia
Nun
1968
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Ellen
2005
Criminal
Grandma
2004
Creator
Mrs. Spencer
1985
The Reivers
Sally
1969
Heart Like a Wheel
Mrs. Marianne Kalitta
1983
Bloody Birthday
Madge
1981
Unlovable
Nana
2018
Hard Traveling
Norah Sloan
1986
Man in the Chair
Mrs. Erskine
2007
Nancy Drew
Librarian
2002
Crossworlds
Joe's Mom
1996The Princess and the Cabbie
Nellie
1981
My Kidnapper, My Love
Paula Stanley
1980
House at the End of the Drive
Eunice Sequoia
2014
Satan's Princess
Mary Kulik
1989
Beauty and the Beast
Mary
1987
I Want to Live
Mrs. Cooley
1983
The Visitation
Mrs. Macon
2006Silence
Barbara
1974Silence
Writer
1974
The Wild Pair
Fern Willis
1987
Our House
Rose
2006
Night Cries
Mrs. Whitney
1978
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
Former Skater
1994
Lonely Hearts
Martha
1991
Deadly Lessons
Mrs. Grant
1983
Big Shots
Bar Waitress
1987SON OF A BARMAN
Babe
Lilly Didrikson
1977
Kotch
Vera Kotcher
1971
Memory of Us
Betty
1974Memory of Us
Writer
1974
A Shining Season
Veta Mercer
1979
Midnight Witness
Valerie
1993
My Town
Mother
1986
A Different Affair
Mrs. Williams
1987
The Gold Bracelet
Miss Hanson
2008
June
Grandma P.
2004