Editing Will Geer

{{Short description|American actor (1902–1978)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Will Geer
| image              = The Waltons 1974.JPG
| caption            = Geer (with [[Ellen Corby]]) as Grandpa "Zeb" Walton in ''[[The Waltons]]''
| birthname          = William Aughe Ghere
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1902|3|9}}
| birth_place        = [[Frankfort, Indiana]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1978|4|22|1902|3|9}}
| death_place        = [[Los Angeles, California]]
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actor|musician|social activist}}
| yearsactive        = 1927–1978
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Herta Ware]]|1934|1954|reason=divorced}}
| children           = 3, including [[Ellen Geer]]
| partner            = [[Harry Hay]] (1932-1934)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kathleen Kennedy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sWFu3IchEMC&q=Harry+Hay+recounted+being+drawn+into+the+Communist+Party+through+his+then+lover%2C+gay+communist+organizer+and+actor+Will+Geer. |title=Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past |last2=Sharon Rena Ullman |publisher=Ohio State University Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-8142-0927-1 |pages=289–90}}</ref>
| relatives          = [[Willow Geer]] (granddaughter)
}}
'''Will Geer''' (born '''William Aughe Ghere'''; March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) 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.<ref> {{Cite web |title=Welcome To Democracy & Socialism .Com |url=http://www.democracyandsocialism.com/FameSocialism/Will_Geer.html |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=www.democracyandsocialism.com}} </ref>{{r|IPM 2006-02-07}} In California, he befriended rising singer [[Woody Guthrie]]. They both lived in New York City for a time in the 1940s. He was [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted]] in the 1950s by [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] after refusing, in testimony before Congress, to name persons who had joined the [[Communist Party USA]].

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.

==Early life==
Geer was born in [[Frankfort, Indiana]], the son of Katherine (née Aughe), a teacher, and Roy Aaron Ghere, a postal worker.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Garraty |first1=John Arthur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jiHFQUjyX78C&q=Katherine+AUGHE+GHERE |title=American National Biography |last2=Carnes |first2=Carnes, Mark Christopher |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-520635-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/c/Christine-Alcorn/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0334.html|title=Christine-Alcorn - User Trees |work=genealogy.com}}</ref> His father left the family when he was 11 years old. Will was deeply influenced by his grandfather<!-- which one? -->, who taught him the botanical names of the plants in Indiana, his native state. Will began to be a [[botanist]]; he received a master's degree in botany at the [[University of Chicago]]. He was also a member of the [[Lambda Chi Alpha]] fraternity.

==Career==
[[File:Will Geer cast portrait.jpg|thumb|upright|Geer created the role of Mr. Mister in the 1937 [[Federal Theatre Project]] production of ''[[The Cradle Will Rock]]''.]]
[[Anglicizing]] his name, Will Geer began his acting career touring in [[tent show]]s and on [[riverboats]]. He worked on several social commentaries for documentaries, including narrating [[Sheldon Dick]]'s ''Men and Dust'' about [[silicosis]] among miners.

He created the role of Mr. Mister in [[Marc Blitzstein]]'s 1937 ''[[The Cradle Will Rock]]'', played Candy in [[John Steinbeck]]'s theatrical adaptation of his novella ''[[Of Mice and Men]]'' and appeared in numerous plays and revues throughout the 1940s. From 1948 to 1951, he appeared in more than a dozen movies, including ''[[Winchester '73]]'' (as [[Wyatt Earp]]), ''[[Broken Arrow (1950 film)|Broken Arrow]]'', and ''[[Comanche Territory (1950 film)|Comanche Territory]],'' all  in 1950; as well as ''[[Bright Victory]]'' (1951). He became a dedicated activist touring government work camps of the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] in the 1930s with [[folk singer]]s such as [[Burl Ives]] and [[Woody Guthrie]] (whom he introduced to the ''People's World'' and the ''[[Daily Worker]]'').<ref name="Bronski">Michael Bronski [http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/documents/02511115.htm "The real Harry Hay"], ''Boston Phoenix'', October 31, 2002</ref><ref name="Denning" /> In 1956, Guthrie and Geer released an album together on [[Folkways Records]], titled ''Bound for Glory: Songs and Stories of Woody Guthrie.''  In his biography, [[Harry Hay]] described Geer's activism and their activities while organizing for the strike.<ref name="timmons">Stuart Timmons, ''The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement'' (1990)</ref>{{rp|64, 67}} Geer introduced Guthrie to [[Pete Seeger]] at the 'Grapes of Wrath' benefit, which he organized in 1940 for migrant farm workers.

Geer acted with the [[Group Theatre (New York)]] studying under [[Harold Clurman]], [[Cheryl Crawford]], and [[Lee Strasberg]]. Geer acted in radio appearing as [[Mephistopheles in the arts and popular culture|Mephistopheles]] ([[Devil|the devil]]) in the 1938 and 1944 productions of [[Norman Corwin]]'s ''[[The Plot to Overthrow Christmas]]''.<ref name="Tangent">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tangentonline.com/old-time-radio/1184-the-plot-to-overthrow-christmas-norman-corwin/ |title="The Plot to Overthrow Christmas: Norman Corwin", ''Tangent'' online |access-date=July 1, 2013 |archive-date=September 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921010720/http://www.tangentonline.com/old-time-radio/1184-the-plot-to-overthrow-christmas-norman-corwin |url-status=dead }}</ref> Geer also acted in the radio soap opera ''[[Bright Horizon]]''.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Bright+Horizon,+soap+opera%22&pg=PA119 |last=Dunning| first=John| author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) | title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio| date=1998| publisher=Oxford University Press| location=New York, NY| isbn=978-0-19-507678-3| page=119 | edition=Revised| access-date=September 17, 2019}}</ref>

===Blacklist===
Geer was a Communist Party member since the 1930s and made “repeated appearances at fundraisers for the American Communist Party” over the years.<ref name="IPM 2006-02-07">{{Cite web |last=Ksander |first=YAËL |date=February 7, 2006 |title=Will Geer |url=https://indianapublicmedia.org/momentofindianahistory/will-geer/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=Indiana Public Media}}</ref> Because of this, Geer was blacklisted in the early 1950s for refusing to testify before the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]].<ref>{{cite web |title=H. Rept. 82-2516 - Annual report of the Committee on Un-American Activities for the year 1952. December 28, 1952. (Original release date.) January 3, 1953. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-11578_00_00-227-2516-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=June 29, 2023 |page=45 |date=December 28, 1952 |quote=Appeared Apr. 11, 1951, and refused to affirm or deny membership in Communist Party.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=H. Rept. 82-378 - Report on the Communist "peace" offensive. A campaign to disarm and defeat the United States. April 25, 1951. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-11501_00_00-002-0378-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=June 29, 2023 |pages=105, 108, 109 |date=April 25, 1951}}</ref> As a result, he appeared in very few films over the next decade. Among those was ''[[Salt of the Earth (1954 film)|Salt of the Earth]]'' (1954). He starred in it; it was produced, directed, and written by blacklisted Hollywood personnel. It told the story of a miners' strike in [[New Mexico]] from a pro-union standpoint. The film was denounced as "subversive", consequently it faced difficulties during production and in distribution.

===Later years===
In 1951, Geer founded the Will Geer [[Theatricum Botanicum]] in [[Topanga, California]], with his wife, actress [[Herta Ware]]. He combined his acting and botanical careers at the Theatricum, cultivating every plant mentioned in [[Shakespeare]]'s plays. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he played several seasons at the [[American Shakespeare Festival]] in [[Stratford, Connecticut]]. He created a second Shakespeare Garden on the theater's grounds. By that time, he was working sporadically again on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]. In 1964, he was nominated for the [[Tony Award]] for [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical|Best Featured Actor in a Musical]] for ''[[110 in the Shade]]''. In 1967, he performed a soliloquy as the prosecutor delivering the closing argument against the two murderers in the film ''[[In Cold Blood (film)|In Cold Blood]]''. In 1972, he  played the part of Bear Claw in ''[[Jeremiah Johnson (film)|Jeremiah Johnson]]''.

In 1972, he was cast as Zebulon Walton, the family patriarch on ''The Waltons,'' a role he took over from [[Edgar Bergen]]. Bergen played the character in the TV movie upon which the series was based. He won an [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series|Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series]] for ''The Waltons'' in 1975.
When Geer died shortly after completing the sixth season of ''The Waltons'', the death of his character was written into the show's script. His final episode, the last episode of the 1977–1978 season, showed him reuniting with his onscreen wife Esther (played by [[Ellen Corby]]; she had been absent for the entire season due to a stroke). His character was mourned onscreen during the first episode of the 1978–1979 season, titled "The Empty Nest".

==Personal life==
Geer married actress Herta Ware in 1934; they had three children, Kate Geer, Thad Geer, and actress [[Ellen Geer]]. Ware also had a daughter, Melora Marshall, who was an actress, from another marriage. Although he and Ware divorced in 1954, they remained close for the rest of their lives.

In 1932, Geer met Harry Hay at the Tony Pastor Theatre where Geer was working as an actor. They soon became lovers.<ref>Kevin Starr, ''Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963'', Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 469</ref> Geer and Hay participated in a milk strike in Los Angeles. Later in the year, they performed in support of the [[1934 West Coast waterfront strike]], where they witnessed police firing on strikers and killing two.<ref>Hay, Harry; Roscoe, William. ''Radically Gay : Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder'', Beacon Press, 1996, p. 356</ref><ref name=timmons/>{{page needed|date=January 2024}} Geer was a committed communist; Hay later described him as his political mentor.<ref name=timmons/>{{rp|64–65}}<ref name="levy">{{Cite news |last=Levy |first=Dan |url=http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Ever-the-Warrior-Gay-rights-icon-Harry-Hay-has-3240144.php |title=Ever the Warrior: Gay rights icon Harry Hay has no patience for assimilation |date=June 23, 2000 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618234952/http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Ever-the-Warrior-Gay-rights-icon-Harry-Hay-has-3240144.php |archive-date=June 18, 2013 |page=DD–8}}</ref><ref>John Gallagher, "Harry Hay's Legacy" (obituary) ''The Advocate'', November 26, 2002; pp. 15; No. 877; ISSN 0001-8996</ref> Geer introduced Hay to Los Angeles' communist community and together they were activists, joining demonstrations for laborers' rights and the unemployed. Once, they handcuffed themselves to lampposts outside [[UCLA]] and handed out leaflets for the [[American League Against War and Fascism]].<ref name=timmons/>{{rp|64–65}} Geer became a member of the Communist Party of the United States in 1934. After Hay was increasingly political, Geer introduced him to the party.<ref name=timmons/>{{rp|67, 69}}<ref>D'Emilio, p. 59</ref> Geer became a reader of the ''[[People's World]],'' a West Coast Communist newspaper.<ref name="Denning">Denning, Michael, ''The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century,'' Verso (1998), {{ISBN|1-85984-170-8}}, {{ISBN|978-1-85984-170-9}}, p. 14</ref>

He maintained a garden at his vacation house, called Geer-Gore Gardens, in [[Nichols, Connecticut]]. He was often there and attended the local [[Fourth of July]] fireworks celebrations, sometimes wearing a black top hat or straw hat and always his trademark denim overalls with only one suspender hooked.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/columns/296-columnsreflections/52486-an-interview-with-will-geer-from-the-waltons.html |title=An interview with Will Geer from 'The Waltons' |access-date=February 22, 2011 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607170510/http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/columns/296-columnsreflections/52486-an-interview-with-will-geer-from-the-waltons.html |archive-date=June 7, 2011 }}</ref> He had a small vacation house in [[Solana Beach, California]], where his front and back yards were cultivated as vegetable gardens rather than lawns.

==Death==
Geer died of [[respiratory failure]] at the age of 76 on April 22, 1978, in [[Los Angeles]]. As he was dying, his family sang folk songs that he and Woody Guthrie had written, and recited poems by [[Robert Frost]] at his bedside.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gupte |first=Pranay |date=1978-04-24 |title=Will Geer Dies at 76 After Career As Character Actor for Six Decades |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/24/archives/will-geer-dies-at-76-after-career-as-character-actor-for-six.html |access-date=2024-08-18 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> His remains were cremated and his ashes are buried at the Theatricum Botanicum in the Shakespeare Garden in [[Topanga, California|Topanga Canyon]], California.<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 17144). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref>

==TV and filmography==
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* ''[[Misleading Lady]]'' (1932) as McMahon&nbsp;– Asylum Guard
* ''[[Spitfire (1934 film)|Spitfire]]'' (1934) as West Fry
* ''[[Wild Gold]]'' (1934) as Poker Player (uncredited)
* ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935 film)|The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]'' (1935) as Village Lamplighter (uncredited)
* ''[[Union Pacific (film)|Union Pacific]]'' (1939) as Foreman (uncredited)
* ''[[The Fight for Life]]'' (1940) as 2nd Teacher
* ''[[Deep Waters (1948 film)|Deep Waters]]'' (1948) as Nick Driver
* ''[[The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre]]'' (1948) as Sam Hobbs
* ''[[Johnny Allegro]]'' (1949) as Schultzy
* ''[[Lust for Gold]]'' (1949) as Deputy Ray Covin
* ''[[Anna Lucasta (1949 film)|Anna Lucasta]]'' (1949) as Noah
* ''[[Intruder in the Dust (1949 film)|Intruder in the Dust]]'' (1949) as Sheriff Hampton
* ''[[The Kid from Texas]]'' (1950) as O'Fallon
* ''[[Comanche Territory (1950 film)|Comanche Territory]]'' (1950) as Dan'l Seeger
* ''[[Winchester '73]]'' (1950) as Wyatt Earp
* ''[[It's a Small World (1950 film)|It's a Small World]]'' (1950) as William Musk&nbsp;– Father
* ''[[Broken Arrow (1950 film)|Broken Arrow]]'' (1950) as Ben Slade
* ''[[Convicted (1950 film)|Convicted]]'' (1950) as Convict Mapes
* ''[[To Please a Lady]]'' (1950) as Jack Mackay
* ''[[Double Crossbones]]'' (1951) as Tom Botts
* ''[[Bright Victory]]'' (1951) as Mr. Lawrence Nevins
* ''[[The Tall Target]]'' (1951) as Homer Crowley&nbsp;– Train Conductor
* ''[[Racket Squad]]'' (1951) as Harry Robinson
* ''[[The Barefoot Mailman]]'' (1951) as Dan Paget&nbsp;– Miami Mayor / Postmaster
* ''[[Salt of the Earth (1954 film)|Salt of the Earth]]'' (1954) as Sheriff
* ''[[The Searchers]]'' (1956)
* ''[[Mobs, Inc.]]'' (1956) as Harry Robinson (archive footage)
* ''[[Advise and Consent (film)|Advise and Consent]]'' (1962) as Senate Minority Leader
* ''[[East Side/West Side]]'' (1964) as Brian Lincoln
* ''[[Black Like Me]]'' (1964) as Truckdriver
* ''[[The Trials of O'Brien]]'' (1966) as Judge Lindemann / Sheldon
* ''[[Seconds (1966 film)|Seconds]]'' (1966) as Old Man
* ''The Crucible'' (1967) as Giles
* ''[[Garrison's Gorillas]]'' (1967) as Laski
* ''[[In Cold Blood (film)|In Cold Blood]]'' (1967) as Prosecutor
* ''[[The President's Analyst]]'' (1967) as Dr. Lee-Evans
* ''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]'' (1968) as Uncle Harry
* ''[[Run for Your Life (TV series)|Run for Your Life]]'' (1968) as Judge David P. Andrews
* ''[[Of Mice and Men (1968 film)|Of Mice and Men]]''  (1968) as Candy
* ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]'' (1968) as Doc
* ''[[The Invaders]]'' (1968) as Hank Willis
* ''[[Bandolero!]]'' (1968) as Pop Chaney
* ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (1968) as Slocum
* ''[[Certain Honorable Men]]'' (1968) as Malcolm Stoddard
* ''[[Mayberry R.F.D.]]'' (1969) as Captain Wolford
* ''[[Here Come the Brides]]'' (1969) as Benjamin Pruitt
* ''[[Bonanza]]'' (1969–1971) as Ferris Callahan / Zach Randolph / Calvin Butler
* ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'' (1969) as Professor Harold Lochner
* ''[[Then Came Bronson]]'' (1969) as Oliver Hidemann
* ''[[Daniel Boone (1964 TV series)|Daniel Boone]]''  (1969) as Adam
* ''[[The Reivers (film)|The Reivers]]'' (1969) as Boss McCaslin
* ''[[I Walk the Line (film)|I Walk The Line]]'' (1970) (Grandpa Tawes voice dub)
* ''[[The Name of the Game (TV series)|The Name of the Game]]''  (1970) as Mac
* ''[[The Moonshine War]]'' (1970) as Mr. Baylor
* ''[[The Brotherhood of the Bell]]'' (1970) as Mike Patterson
* ''[[Pieces of Dreams (film)|Pieces of Dreams]]'' (1970) as The Bishop
* ''[[The Bold Ones: The Senator]]'' (1970–1971) as Elliot Leveridge / Judge Scanlon / Ralph Turner
* ''[[The Bill Cosby Show]]'' (1970) as Mr. Kane
* ''[[Medical Center (TV series)|Medical Center]]'' (1970–1974) as Coughlin
* ''Shooting the Moonshine War'' (1970) as Himself (uncredited)
* ''[[The Bold Ones: The Lawyers]]'' (1970–1971) as Elliot Leveridge / Judge Scanlon / Ralph Turner
* ''Sam Hill: Who Killed Mr. Foster?''  (1971) as Simon Anderson
* ''[[Love, American Style]]'' (1971) as Desk Clerk (segment "Love and the Pulitzer Prize")
* ''[[Brother John (film)|Brother John]]'' (1971) as Doc Thomas
* ''[[Cade's County]]'' (1971) as Hurley Gaines
* ''[[Alias Smith and Jones]]'' (1971) as Seth
* ''[[O'Hara, U.S. Treasury]]'' (1971) as Singlefoot
* ''[[The Jimmy Stewart Show]]'' (1971) as Uncle Everett
* ''[[The Waltons]]'' (TV series) (1972–1978) as Zebulon Tyler Walton
* ''[[Dear Dead Delilah]]'' (1972) as Roy Jurroe
* ''[[The Scarecrow (play)|The Scarecrow]]'' (1972) as Justice Gilead Merton
* ''[[Bewitched]]'' (1972) as President George Washington
* ''[[The Sixth Sense (American TV series)|The Sixth Sense (TV series)]]'' (1972) as Rev. Jordan
* ''[[Jeremiah Johnson (film)|Jeremiah Johnson]]'' (1972) as Bear Claw
* ''[[The Rowdyman]]'' (1972) as Stan
* ''[[Napoleon and Samantha]]'' (1972) as Grandpa
* ''[[Night Gallery]]'' (1973) as Walt Peckinpah
* ''[[List of Columbo episodes#Season 2|Columbo: A Stitch in Crime]]'' (1973) as Dr. Edmund Hidemann
* ''Brock's Last Case'' (1973) as J. Smiley Krenshaw
* ''[[Harry O]]'' (1973) as Len McNeil
* ''[[Savage (1973 TV film)|Savage]]'' (1973) as Joel Ryker
* ''The Gift of Terror'' (Made for TV Film) (1973) as Ben
* ''[[Kung Fu (1972 TV series)|Kung Fu]]'' (1973) as Judge Emmitt Marcus
* ''[[Isn't It Shocking?]]'' (1973) as Lemuel Lovell
* ''[[Doc Elliot]]'' (1973) as Paul Bartlett
* ''[[Executive Action (film)|Executive Action]]'' (1973) as Harold Ferguson
* ''[[The Hanged Man (1974 film)|The Hanged Man]]'' (1974) as Nameless
* ''Silence'' (1974) as Crazy Jack
* ''Honky Tonk'' (1974) as Judge Cotton
* ''Memory of Us'' (1974) as Motel Manager
* ''[[Hurricane (1974 film)|Hurricane]]'' (1974) as Dr. McCutcheon
* ''[[The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery]]'' (1975) as Dr. Simpson
* ''[[The Night That Panicked America]]''  (1975) as Reverend Davis
* ''[[The Blue Bird (1976 film)|The Blue Bird]]'' (1976) as Grandfather
* ''Law and Order'' (1976) as Pat Crowley
* ''[[Moving Violation (film)|Moving Violation]]'' (1976) as Rockfield
* ''[[Hollywood on Trial]]'' (1976) as Himself
* ''[[Starsky & Hutch]]'' (1976) as Commodore Atwater
* ''[[Hee Haw]]'' (1976) as Himself
* ''[[The Billion Dollar Hobo]]'' (1977) as Choo-Choo Trayne
* ''[[Eight Is Enough]]'' (1977) as Sam
* ''[[The Love Boat]]'' (1977) as Franklyn Bootherstone
* ''[[A Woman Called Moses]]'' (1978) as Thomas Garrett
* ''Unknown Powers'' (1978) as Host
* ''CBS: On the Air'' (1978)
* ''[[The Mafu Cage]]'' (1978) as Zom
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==Discography==
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* ''Folkways: The Original Vision'' (2005) [[Smithsonian Folkways]]
* ''Ecology Won: Readings by Will Geer and Ellen Geer'' (1978) [[Folkways Records]]
* ''Woody's Story: As Told by Will Geer and Sung by Dick Wingfield'' (1976) Folkways Records
* ''American History in Ballad and Song, Vol.2'' (1962) Folkways Records
* ''Mark Twain: Readings from the Stories and from "Huckleberry Finn"'' (1961) Folkways Records
* ''Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall'' (1960) Folkways Records
* ''Bound for Glory: Songs and Stories of Woody Guthrie'' (1956) Folkways Records
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== References ==
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