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Herta Ware (June 9, 1917 – August 15, 2005) was an American actress and activist. Early life. Ware was born Herta Schwartz in Wilmington, Delaware. Her mother, Helen Ware, was a musician and violin teacher. Her father, Laszlo Schwartz, was an actor who was born in Budapest. [1]
Herta Ware (1917-2005) was a veteran character actress who appeared in films, TV shows, and theater. She was married to actor Will Geer, a fellow leftist and folk singer, and co-founded the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon.
- Actress
- June 9, 1917
- Herta Ware
- August 15, 2005
Herta Ware was a veteran character actress and the wife of Will Geer, a fellow actor and activist. She appeared in films, TV shows and theater, and co-founded the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon.
- June 9, 1917
- August 15, 2005
Aug 19, 2005 · Herta Ware, an actress who helped to found the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, where she appeared in plays until a few years ago, died Monday at her home in Topanga....
Herta Ware was a character actress of stage, screen and TV, who appeared in films like Cocoon, Critters 2 and Top Dog. She also co-founded a theatre company with her husband Will Geer and played Yvette Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCredit17%Rotten audience score. 42%Alice (Character)No Score YetNo Score YetGrammy (Character)No Score YetNo Score YetAunt Delia (Character)No Score YetRotten audience score. 35%Alana (Character)Herta Ware was the wife of the blacklisted actor Will Geer and a singer-actress with a passion for the labour movement. She opened a theatre in Topanga Canyon that gave employment to blacklisted artists and performed in many films and TV shows.
Character actress of stage, screen and TV, who suffered through the blacklisting of the 50s alongside husband Will Geer (later Grandpa Walton on "The Waltons") and returned to frequent film and TV roles in the mid-80s, particularly after her performance as Rose Lefkowitz, the senile wife of Jack Gilford who dies in "Cocoon" (1985).
