Kevin Geer

Kevin Geer was an actor whose work ranged across feature films, television and the stage, including Broadway, Off-Broadway and the West End. He was born in 1952 and died in 2017. He played opposite Joan Allen in Rod Lurie's The Contender (2000), and his other films included Walter Foote's The Tavern, The Pelican Brief and Arrowshot. He also took a leading part in Bunker Hill, an independent film directed by Kevin Willmott, acting alongside James McDaniel and Saeed Jaffrey. On the West End he played Jonesey in Side Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1999. His Broadway work included Twelve Angry Men and A Streetcar Named Desire, and Off-Broadway he was seen in Found A Peanut at The Public and in The Foreigner at the Astor Place Theatre. Television work included China Beach, Homicide, Oz, Law & Order, Macgyver and M.A.S.H., and he appeared in the TV film Sweet Bird of Youth with Elizabeth Taylor.