Movies: Will Geer

The notable non-theatrical film distributor Thomas Brandon produced Tall Tales, a 1941 celebration of the American folk song featuring Josh White, Burl Ives, and Will Geer....

The Man Who Loved Bears (1979) True-story documentary detailing the struggle of a man trying to raise a helpless grizzly bear cub named "Griz" in order to return him to the natural Colorado wild....

Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices. He lives and behaves as if he was still 18, womanizing and drinking and rejecting responsibility because he sees no reason to take life seriously....

Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman....

A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare....

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life....

In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up with Lucy Cotton, a young woman he meets there. This failed television pilot film is loosely based on Honky Tonk (1941), which starred Clark Gable....

A New York City cop who has retired to a small Western town is drawn into the local case of an Indian who is accused of murdering a sheriff....

Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under ...

The protégé of a powerful congressman discovers his boss's corruption....

In 1970, three years following his death from Huntington’s disease, an all-star cast of musicians gathered at Los Angeles, CA’s Hollywood Bowl to pay homage to iconic folk songwriter Woody Guthrie. Although the concert was a one-night-only event , f...

Blacklisted gay communist 1940’s character actor Will Geer became Grandpa Walton in the hit series “The Waltons”. How so?...

Barbara and Al adopt Eric, who is deaf and mute, and take him camping in Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Eric becomes lost and is found by a hermit named Crazy Jack, who teaches him how to survive in the woods....

Actor Will Geer hosts this exploration of the possibility of life after death. Psychics, psychiatrists and scientists offer their research regarding immortality, with special attention to Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's extensive study of near-death expe...