1. Robert William "Dabbs" Greer was an American character actor in film and television for over 60 years.
24 Facts About Dabbs Greer
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Dabbs Greer played Mr Jonas in Gunsmoke, Coach Ossie Weiss in the sitcom Hank, and Reverend Robert Alden in Little House on the Prairie.
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When Dabbs Greer was an infant, the family moved to the larger Anderson, Missouri, 30 miles southwest.
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Dabbs Greer attended Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, where he was a member of Theta Kappa Nu.
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Dabbs Greer appeared in three episodes of Adventures of Superman, including the inaugural entry, "Superman on Earth", in which he was cast as the first person to be saved by Superman.
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Dabbs Greer was the major guest star as a man framed for murder in "Five Minutes to Doom" and as an eccentric millionaire in "The Superman Silver Mine".
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Dabbs Greer made hundreds of appearances in around 200 different television series.
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Dabbs Greer played the role of the marshal in the two-part "King of the Dakotas" and appeared as Ray in "Paper Gunman" of the NBC Western anthology series Frontier.
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Dabbs Greer appeared in an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
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Dabbs Greer was cast on the syndicated Western series Pony Express and guest-starred on three CBS Western series: Wanted: Dead or Alive, Trackdown, and Johnny Ringo.
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Dabbs Greer appeared on ABC's Tombstone Territory, and in the 1957 episode "Rebel Christmas" on the Tod Andrews syndicated series The Gray Ghost.
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Dabbs Greer was then cast as Ed Grimes on the 1958 episode "312 Vertical" of the syndicated series State Trooper.
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From 1956 until 1974, Dabbs Greer had a recurring role as storekeeper Mr Jonas on the long-running TV series "Gunsmoke".
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In 1960, Dabbs Greer appeared in the episode "Dark Fear" on the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
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Dabbs Greer was cast twice in The Twilight Zone, in the 1962 episode "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" and the 1963 episode "Valley of the Shadow".
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Dabbs Greer then appeared as a policeman in the first episode of The Fugitive, "Fear in a Desert City".
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In 1963, Dabbs Greer was cast as Jack Tabor in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Skeleton's Closet".
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Dabbs Greer guest-starred in seven other Perry Mason episodes in various roles.
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Dabbs Greer had a recurring role in the NBC series Little House on the Prairie from 1974 to 1983 as Reverend Alden.
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Dabbs Greer had a guest appearance on an episode of Charles in Charge in the role of Buzz Powell.
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Law, titled "On the Toad Again", Dabbs Greer played a character addicted to a "high" produced by licking the skin secretions of psychoactive toads.
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Dabbs Greer's final feature film was a prominent role as 108-year-old Paul Edgecomb in The Green Mile starring Tom Hanks as the younger Edgecomb.
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Dabbs Greer died on April 28,2007, at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena from kidney failure and heart disease.
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Dabbs Greer is interred in Peace Valley Cemetery in McDonald County, Missouri.