Cast: Will Geer

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Will Geer. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Winchester '73

1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Shelley Winters · Dan Duryea · Stephen McNally

Synopsis 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 series of adventures for McAdam, as he attempts to track...

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

Synopsis "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 himself fighting Hollywood and US politics as they connived to...

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

Synopsis In Cold Blood (1967) is a chilling crime drama based on Truman Capote's non-fiction novel. The film follows two ex-convicts, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who hatch a plan to rob a wealthy Kansas family. Their heist takes a dark...

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

Synopsis 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 committee is idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, who soon finds himself...

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

Synopsis Jeremiah Johnson (1972) follows a disillusioned war veteran who seeks solitude in the untamed Rocky Mountains during the mid-1800s. Embracing the harsh wilderness, he learns survival skills from a seasoned trapper and befriends a grieving widow and her son. As...

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

Synopsis 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 life. Based on a series of telephone calls he receives...

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

Synopsis 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 Indians are human, after all; soon, he determines to use...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.

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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

Synopsis 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

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Vic Morrow · Cliff De Young · Michael Constantine · Walter McGinn

Synopsis 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 as possible, many people were fooled into thinking that an...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 realizes Joe had an incompetent lawyer who should have gotten...

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

Synopsis 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 for a 12-year-old orphan who loves the sea. He and...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 society has a job for him.

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 of children, Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit), who...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 automobile in the area, a bright yellow Winton Flyer. While...

5.8

266 votes

5.8

266 votes