America’s Grandpa
(2023, original release: 2019)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Kino Lorber, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
14322214
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

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

Film

In Process Record

Seamus Morrison, Will Geer

Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2019

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

Additional Credits