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Will Geer

Will Geer (born William Aughe Ghere) 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, Geer was best known for his role as Grandpa Zebulon "Zeb" Walton in the TV series The Waltons from 1972 until his death in 1978.

Known For

Credits

Cast Credits

Harry O (1973)
Guest starring as Len McNeil
The Waltons (1972)
Starring as The Grandfather (59 episodes)
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Guest starring as Seth
Night Gallery (1969)
Guest starring as Walt Peckinpah
Love, American Style (1969)
Guest starring as Desk Clerk
Medical Center (1969)
Guest starring as Loriss
  • Episode 5x23: Hexed (Apr 1, 1974)
Mayberry R.F.D. (1968)
Guest starring as Captain Charles Wolford (2 episodes)
The Name of the Game (1968)
Guest starring as Mac
Hawaii Five-O (1968)
Guest starring as Professor Harold Lochner
Columbo (1968)
Guest starring as Dr. Edmund Hiedeman
The Invaders (1967)
Guest starring as Hank Willis
The Hollywood Squares (1966)
Guest starring as Panelist (2 episodes)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Guest starring as Doc
Daniel Boone (1964)
Guest starring as Adam Jarrett
Bewitched (1964)
Guest starring as George Washington (2 episodes)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
Guest starring as Will Geer
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Guest starring as Will Geer (2 episodes)
Tony Awards (1957)
Guest starring as Performer
Guest starring as Nominee
Gunsmoke (1955)
Guest starring as Slocum
  • Episode 14x05: Slocum (Oct 21, 1968)
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