Name: Herta Ware
Date of Birth: 9 June 1917 Former wife of actor Will Geer; performs with her daughter, Ellen Geer at their theater founded by Will Geer, "Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum" in Topanga, Ca, USA. It was Herta who brought the family to Topanga Canyon following husband Will Geer's Hollywood blacklisting. He was an eternal optimist and she was the realist and survivor. After losing their own in Santa Monica, and before their money ran out, Herta bought five acres in the canyon for $10,000, which would become the site for their popular outdoor theater. They lived off the land and became vegetarians. ... Played Yvette Picard, the mother of Jean-Luc, on the "Star Trek" series. Herta's daughter, Melora Marshall, portrayed her in a 1995 production at the Theatricum Botanicum entitled "And the Dark Cloud Came," the Geer's personal story of the McCarthy blacklisting and its effects. Herta played her own grandmother, labor activist Ella Reeve Bloor, in the family epic, and another daughter Ellen Geer co-directed the production. Three children with Will Geer - Kate, Ellen and Thad. She and Geer divorced in 1954 and Herta married again. Her fourth child, Melora, came from her second marriage to late actor David Marshall. Following Herta's second divorce, she and Will reunited in 1973 and moved back into their Topanga Canyon home with their children and forged the outdoor theater company. She was the granddaughter of Ella Reeve Bloor, aka "Mother" Bloor, one of the most famous radical organizers of the 20th century and a co-founder of the Communist Party of the United States. Read more Herta Ware movies (actor)User Comments |
