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Will Geer's Legacy: Outdoor Theater

NPR
Published November 7, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Actor Will Geer is perhaps best remembered as grandpa on The Waltons. But in the 1950s, he founded an outdoor theater in California. Iris Mann reports.

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