Herta Ware
Herta Ware ( born June 19, 1917 in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, † August 15 2005 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress and Theaterprinzipalin.
The Early Years
Herta Ware Herta Schwartz was born as the daughter of an artist couple. Her mother Helen Ware was a musician and violin teacher, her father born in Budapest Lazlo Schwartz was an actor. Your maternal grandmother, the union activist and socialist Ella Reeve Bloor, also known as "Mother Bloor ," was known, and her uncle Harold Ware was a famous activist. Goods began her acting career in the early '30s on Broadway. There she met her future husband Will Geer, whom she married in 1938 and with whom she had daughter Ellen Geer in 1941 and later two more children.
Social and Political Commitment
The couple was active both socially and politically. Already Herta Ware's grandmother, Ella Reeve Bloor trade unionist (1862-1951) was, at the beginning of the century, become a member of the Socialist Party of America. Goods and Geer traveled in the time of the Great Depression with his friend, singer-songwriters Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger by America and mainly played for a worker audience. In 1940, she settled in Los Angeles. In the McCarthy era Geer was a Communist prohibition because he refused to cooperate with the Committee for Un-American Activities.
Theatricum Botanicum
Then the couple moved after Topanga, California, where they founded a small theater, from the Theatricum Botanicum 1973 was that offered work especially politically persecuted stage creators.
In the 50s, the couple separated. After Herta Ware's second marriage to fellow actor David Marshall was divorced, she returned to Topanga, and guided only together with Geer, to which they life shared a friendship, and after his death alone the successful theater, which now also offers acting classes and their daughter Ellen Geer is headed.
Film and television career
It was not until about 60 years Herta Ware began to take roles in film and television productions. In 1980 she was in the comedy Hollywood Homicide - rivets under her feature film debut. Over the next 20 years of her career Herta Ware played numerous character roles in major productions such as the science fiction film 2010 - The Year We Make Contact, in Ron Howard's Cocoon films, alongside Meg Ryan in Promised Land, alongside Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg and Sally Field in satire favorite enemies - A soap opera, with Ben Kingsley in the sci-fi Shocker species, alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar in the Choderlos de Laclos adaptation Cruel and opposite Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in the fantasy comedy Practical Magic. She also took numerous guest appearances in television series such as Knots Landing, Emergency Room, Golden Girls and Star Trek - The Next Generation as the mother of Jean -Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).
Published in 2000 Herta Ware her memoirs under the title Fantastic Journey, My Life With Will Geer. On August 15, 2005, she died at the age of 88 years surrounded by her family in Los Angeles.