Cast: Will Geer
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Will Geer. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 62
Winchester '73
1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast James Stewart · Shelley Winters · Dan Duryea · Stephen McNally
Plot In the Old West, cowboy Lin McAdam wins a valuable Winchester 1873 repeating rifle in a shooting contest - which the runner-up contestant instantly steals. This leads to a rousing...
7.8
6K votes
7.8
6K votes
Salt of the Earth
1954 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Herbert J. Biberman
Cast Juan Chacón · Will Geer · Rosaura Revueltas · Mervin Williams
Plot "Salt of the Earth" is a movie about New Mexico zinc miners and their struggle to improve working conditions. Using local people to re-enact their experiences, Biberman once more found...
7.7
2K votes
7.7
2K votes
In Cold Blood
1967 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Robert Blake · Scott Wilson · John Forsythe · Paul Stewart
Plot Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmer's home only to find that there is nearly no money at the...
7.7
7K votes
7.7
7K votes
Advise & Consent
1962 · Movie · 139 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Walter Pidgeon · Don Murray · Charles Laughton · Henry Fonda
Plot Robert Leffingwell is the president's candidate for Secretary of State. Prior to his approval, he must first go through a Senate investigation to determine if he's qualified. Leading the Senate...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
Jeremiah Johnson
1972 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Sydney Pollack
Cast Robert Redford · Will Geer · Allyn Ann McLerie · Stefan Gierasch
Plot Sydney Pollack directs this notable picturesque film in which a solitary man named Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) battles ruthless Indians, who use him as the target of a long-awaited vendetta,...
7.6
11K votes
7.6
11K votes
Seconds
1966 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Frankenheimer
Cast Rock Hudson · Salome Jens · John Randolph · Will Geer
Plot Arthur Hamilton is a middle aged New York banker living in Scarsdale. He's married with a grown daughter he rarely sees anymore. He is generally disengaged from everything in his...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
Broken Arrow
1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Delmer Daves
Cast James Stewart · Jeff Chandler · Debra Paget · Will Geer
Plot By 1870, there has been 10 years of cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apaches. Ex-soldier Tom Jeffords saves the life of an Apache boy and starts to wonder if...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Intruder in the Dust
1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Clarence Brown
Cast David Brian · Claude Jarman Jr. · Juano Hernández · Porter Hall
Plot In 1940s Mississippi two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
6.9
210 votes
6.9
210 votes
The Tall Target
1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Dick Powell · Paula Raymond · Adolphe Menjou · Marshall Thompson
Plot A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
6.8
184 votes
6.8
184 votes
Columbo: A Stitch in Crime (TV)
1973 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Hy Averback
Cast Peter Falk · Leonard Nimoy · Anne Francis · Nita Talbot
Plot A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme.
6.5
309 votes
6.5
309 votes
The Night That Panicked America (TV)
1975 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Sargent
Cast Vic Morrow · Cliff De Young · Michael Constantine · Walter McGinn
Plot The true story of the night that Orson Welles broadcast his version of 'H.G. Welles' ' classic ''The War of the Worlds'' on the radio. Designed to be as realistic...
6.4
39 votes
6.4
39 votes
Executive Action
1973 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction David Miller
Cast Burt Lancaster · Robert Ryan · John Anderson · Colby Chester
Plot Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
6.4
473 votes
6.4
473 votes
Convicted
1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Glenn Ford · Broderick Crawford · Millard Mitchell · Dorothy Malone
Plot Joe Hufford gets involved in a nightclub brawl, kills a man in self defense, and is sent to prison for manslaughter, to the dismay of district attorney George Knowland who...
6.4
65 votes
6.4
65 votes
Deep Waters
1948 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Dana Andrews · Jean Peters · Cesar Romero · Anne Revere
Plot A Maine lobster fisherman, trained as an architect, prefers to be a fisherman over the objections of his fiancée. The latter, a welfare worker for the state, finds a home...
6.3
77 votes
6.3
77 votes
Lust for Gold
1949 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction S. Sylvan Simon · George Marshall
Cast Ida Lupino · Glenn Ford · Gig Young · William Prince
Plot The tale of how immigrant Jacob Walz, the "Dutchman" (German) of Arizona's notorious Lost Dutchman gold mine, found treasure and love and lost them again.
6.2
193 votes
6.2
193 votes
The Brotherhood of the Bell (TV)
1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Paul Wendkos
Cast Glenn Ford · Rosemary Forsyth · Dean Jagger · Maurice Evans
Plot A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the...
6.2
38 votes
6.2
38 votes
Johnny Allegro
1949 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Ted Tetzlaff
Cast George Raft · Nina Foch · George Macready · Will Geer
Plot A reformed hoodlum gets mixed up with counterfeiters and a deadly manhunt.
6.1
53 votes
6.1
53 votes
The Blue Bird
1976 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Todd Lookinland · Patsy Kensit · Jane Fonda
Plot The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair...
5.9
223 votes
5.9
223 votes
Bandolero!
1968 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast James Stewart · Dean Martin · Raquel Welch · George Kennedy
Plot Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows.
5.8
533 votes
5.8
533 votes
The Reivers
1969 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Mark Rydell
Cast Steve McQueen · Rupert Crosse · Mitch Vogel · Sharon Farrell
Plot An old man looks back 60 years to a road trip from rural Mississippi to Memphis, a horse race, and his own coming of age. Lucius's grandfather gets the first...
5.8
266 votes
5.8
266 votes