Having just acquired the DVD of Jeremiah Johnson, I was going through the actor bios on the disc. Reading the one on Will Geer, I learned that he was a great friend and supporter of Woody Guthrie and folk music in general. And that he suffered a bit from the blacklisting during the McCarthy days.

I was most familiar with Will Geer--like most of my generation--as Grandpa Walton when I was growing up, though my favourite role of his will always be as Bearclaw Chris (never could make out the last name) in the movie named above. But I didn't know of his contribution to Folk music.

So I went looking on the web and through old posts here on Mudcat to learn more. I found a bit of information (on his wife as well), but not near enough. Was he a folksinger as well? Did he perform/write/collect/manage? I see Mudcatter Frank Hamilton and others here knew more about the man so I figure this might be the place to respectfully ask for more details.