Herta Ware
Actress

Herta Ware Net Worth

She was a passionate liberal and the daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant and a labor organizer. She was married to actor Will Geer and had three children with him. She was also the author of the memoir "Fantastic Journey, My Life with Will Geer". Herta Ware was a veteran actress born in 1917 in Wilmington, Delaware to a Hungarian Jewish immigrant father and a labor organizer mother. She began acting in plays in New York City in the 1930s and made her Broadway debut in "Let Freedom Ring". She and her husband, actor Will Geer, moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s and had three children. After Geer was blacklisted by Hollywood, they founded the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon. Ware appeared in films such as Cocoon (1985), Soapdish (1991) and Practical Magic (1998), and TV shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and ER (1994). She wrote the memoir "Fantastic Journey, My Life with Will Geer" in 2000. Her children and grandchildren have gone on to become performers at the Botanicum.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress
Birth Day June 09, 1917
Birth Place  Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Age 103 YEARS OLD
Died On August 15, 2005 (aged 88)\nTopanga, California, U.S.
Birth Sign Cancer
Occupation Actress
Years active 1930s–? (stage) 1978–2000 (film & television)
Spouse(s) Will Geer (1934–1954; divorced; 3 children) David Marshall (divorced; 1 child)
Children Kate Geer Chad Geer Ellen Geer Melora Marshall

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1934

In 1934, Ware married actor Will Geer, with whom she had three children. She and Geer were politically-minded and relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1940s and settled in Santa Monica so that Geer could pursue his movie career. In 1951, the passionately left-wing Geer became blacklisted by Hollywood for taking the Fifth Amendment and refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. With Geer's film career destroyed, and falling into financial difficulties, the couple lost their Los Angeles home. The pair divorced in 1954 but remained close friends. Ware later married actor David Marshall, with whom she had one child, a daughter, Actress Melora Marshall. They later divorced. Ware and Geer reunited in 1973 and subsequently co-founded the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, which was on five acres of land that Ware purchased in Topanga Canyon for $10,000. The burgeoning theater officially opened as a summer theater in 1973. She stayed by Geer's bedside as he died of a respiratory ailment in 1978. In 2000, Ware published her own memoir Fantastic Journey, My Life with Will Geer.

1935

Ware made her Broadway debut in Let Freedom Ring (November 6, 1935–February 1936), co-starring husband Will Geer, whom she had married in 1934. The couple appeared together in other New York plays, including Bury the Dead (1936), Prelude (1936), 200 Were Chosen (1936) and Journeyman (1938), and Six O'Clock Theatre (1948), all of which were short-lived.

1978

She made her on-screen debut in 1978, when she appeared in the television film, A Question of Guilt. Subsequently, she appeared in her first feature film 1980, The Black Marble. Her second feature film was Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype, which featured Oliver Reed. She starred in 2010 in 1984. She is perhaps most recognized for her performance in the classic film Ron Howard's Cocoon, and appeared in the sequel Cocoon: The Return. She appeared in Critters 2: The Main Course as "Nana". She had roles in several other well-known films such as, Species, Practical Magic, with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, and Cruel Intentions, with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Philippe. Her role in the 1992 television film Crazy in Love earned her a CableACE Award for Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries.

2005

Ware died in 2005, due to complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 88, in Topanga, California. Her ashes and those of her husband, Will Geer, were scattered at their outdoor theatre.

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