America’s Grandpa [eFilm]
2023
Streaming Video
Will Geer had a checkered life. A very reliable character actor in Hollywood movies in the late 40s, he was blacklisted in the early 50s because of his communist-related activities. When the blacklist was finally broken in the early 60s, directors started hiring him again. But by now, he was in his 60s himself and always played old men. Towards the very end of his life, he was cast as Grandpa Walton in the hit series “The Waltons,” and became a much-beloved figure in American pop culture, despite the fact that he had been a communist and an uncloseted gay man.
Main title:
Author:
Rappaport, Mark, film directorMorrison, Seamus, actorGeer, Will, actorKino Lorber (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Work:
Imprint:
Kino Lorber, 2019.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2019.In English
Performers:
Seamus Morrison, Will Geer
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
768624
Electronic access:
Stream eFilm - A Kanopy streaming video