# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/will-geer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:58:33.721Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/will-geer"
name: "Will Geer"
slug: "will-geer"
description: "Will Geer was an American actor, musician, and social activist who was active in labor organizing and communist movements in New York City and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California, he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York City for a time in the 1940s. He was blacklisted in the 1950s by Hollywood after refusing, in testimony before Congress, to name persons who had joined the Communist Party USA."
tagline: "American actor and activist (1902–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Waltons_1974.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1902-03-09"
deathDate: "1978-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.31027066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002095/"
    handle:    "nm0002095"
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    title: "Will Geer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump