Dabbs Greer

Acting • Born 1917-04-02 – Died 2007-04-28

Acting1Fairview, Missouri, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert William "Dabbs" Greer (April 2, 1917 – April 28, 2007) was an American actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for over 50 years. His distinctive voice and southern accent was a good fit for shows featuring rustic characters, especially westerns. He also was portrayed on other shows as a minister, and is probably best remembered as the Reverend Robert Alden in NBC's Little House on the Prairie. Earlier, Greer had a recurring role as Coach Ossie Weiss in the NBC sitcom Hank.

Filmography

269 credits

The Green Mile

Movie • 1999

Old Paul Edgecomb

Two Moon Junction

Movie • 1988

Kyle

Roustabout

Movie • 1964

Arthur Nielsen

White Lightning

Movie • 1973

Pa McKlusky

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Movie • 1956

Mack Lomax

We're Not Married!

Movie • 1952

Beauty Contest Spectator (uncredited)

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Movie • 1958

Eric Royce

Riot in Cell Block 11

Movie • 1954

Schuyler

I Want to Live!

Movie • 1958

San Quentin Capt.

Trouble Along the Way

Movie • 1953

Father Peterson

Private Hell 36

Movie • 1954

Sam Marvin (uncredited)

Day of the Outlaw

Movie • 1959

Doc Langer, Veterinarian

Green Eyes

Movie • 1977

Mr. Cousins

Week-End with Father

Movie • 1951

Minor Role (uncredited)

The Winds of Kitty Hawk

Movie • 1978

Ace Hutchin

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

Movie • 1991

Otto

Chain of Evidence

Movie • 1957

Dr. Ainsley - Psychiatrist

House of Wax

Movie • 1953

Shane

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

Movie • 1981

Wally

All Mine to Give

Movie • 1957

Clendenning

House IV

Movie • 1992

Dad

Storm Warning

Movie • 1951

Courtroom Cop (uncredited)

Take the High Ground!

Movie • 1953

Shorty (uncredited)

Affair with a Stranger

Movie • 1953

Happy Murray

Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile

Movie • 2000

Self (uncredited)

A Slight Case of Larceny

Movie • 1953

Eddie

Half a Hero

Movie • 1953

George Payson

Monkey Business

Movie • 1952

Cabbie (uncredited)

Lucky Me

Movie • 1954

Eddie Szczepanski (uncredited)

The Young Guns

Movie • 1956

Fred

The Scarlet Coat

Movie • 1955

Capt. Brewster

The Unknown Man

Movie • 1951

Ambulance Interne Driver (uncredited)

Remains to Be Seen

Movie • 1953

Julius (uncredited)

Scarlet Angel

Movie • 1952

Robbery Victim

Runaway Daughters

Movie • 1994

Gary

Last Train from Gun Hill

Movie • 1959

Deputy Andy

Rage

Movie • 1972

Dr. Thompson

My Man Godfrey

Movie • 1957

Lieutenant O'Connor

An Annapolis Story

Movie • 1955

Cmdr. Halleck (uncredited)

The Bad and the Beautiful

Movie • 1952

Studio Lighting Technician (uncredited)

Johnny Tremain

Movie • 1957

Nat Lorne

The Giant Claw

Movie • 1957

Fighter Pilot, (archive footage) (uncredited)

Young and Dangerous

Movie • 1957

Mr. John Clinton

Walking the Mile

Movie • 2014

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Baby Face Nelson

Movie • 1957

FBI Agent Charles Bonner

Cash McCall

Movie • 1960

Bronson (uncredited)

Sally and Saint Anne

Movie • 1952

Mr. Parker

Father's Little Dividend

Movie • 1951

Green Taxicab's Driver (uncredited)

Foxfire

Movie • 1955

Bus Driver (uncredited)

The Hired Man

Movie • 1957

Bill Rockwell

Edge of Eternity

Movie • 1959

Gas Station Attendant

The Desperado

Movie • 1954

U.S. Marshal Jim Langley

Mission Over Korea

Movie • 1953

Pilot

Little Giants

Movie • 1994

Wilbur

Mister Scoutmaster

Movie • 1953

Fireman (uncredited)

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Movie • 1956

Mr. Smith-Johnson (uncredited)

Room for One More

Movie • 1952

Scoutmaster (uncredited)

The Spirit of St. Louis

Movie • 1957

Goldsborough (uncredited)

The Cheyenne Social Club

Movie • 1970

Jedediah W. Willowby

The Vampire

Movie • 1957

Dr. Will Beaumont

The Damned Don't Cry

Movie • 1950

Reporter (uncredited)

California Passage

Movie • 1950

Dealer (uncredited)

Evil Town

Movie • 1987

Lyle Phelps

Dr. Shagetz

Movie • 1975

Lyle Phelps

Bonanza: The Next Generation

Movie • 1988

Sills

Hot Cars

Movie • 1956

Det. Davenport

Bitter Creek

Movie • 1954

Sheriff

Pawnee

Movie • 1957

John Brewster

Lone Texan

Movie • 1959

Doc Jansen

Showdown

Movie • 1963

Express Man

Palm Springs Weekend

Movie • 1963

Boys' Club Leader (uncredited)

Deadline - U.S.A.

Movie • 1952

Reporter (uncredited)

Tension at Table Rock

Movie • 1956

Doctor (uncredited)

She Couldn't Say No

Movie • 1954

Dick Jordan

Shenandoah

Movie • 1965

Abernathy

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant

Movie • 1970

Stilts

Reign of Terror

Movie • 1949

Bridge Guard (uncredited)

Young Man with Ideas

Movie • 1952

Telephone Man (uncredited)

Pacific Heights

Movie • 1990

Mr. Thayer

The Greatest Gift

Movie • 1974

Deacon Hurd

The Seven Little Foys

Movie • 1955

Tutor

At Gunpoint

Movie • 1955

Funeral Minister

D-Day the Sixth of June

Movie • 1956

Driver

Con Air

Movie • 1997

Old Man Under Truck

China Venture

Movie • 1953

Galuppo

Family

Movie • 2006

Another Great-Grandfather

Little House: Look Back to Yesterday

Movie • 1983

Rev. Robert Alden

Because of You

Movie • 1952

Tijuana Shop Owner (uncredited)

Deadline - U.S.A.

Movie • 1952

Day Reporter (uncredited)

Devil's Doorway

Movie • 1950

Spud Keith (uncredited)

Living It Up

Movie • 1954

Leader of the Boy Rangers (uncredited)

Julius Caesar

Movie • 1953

Citizen of Rome (uncredited)

Little House: The Last Farewell

Movie • 1984

Rev. Robert Alden

The Andy Griffith Show

TV • 1960

Naylor

Maybe It's Me

TV • 2001

Fred Stage

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

TV • 1959

Charles in Charge

TV • 1984

'Buzz' Powell

The Rookies

TV • 1972

Cain's Hundred

TV • 1961

Willie Beal

Ally McBeal

TV • 1997

Vincent Robbins

Kraft Suspense Theatre

TV • 1963

Newton Yort

The F.B.I.

TV • 1965

Paul Leonard

The Brady Bunch

TV • 1969

Minister

The Dick Van Dyke Show

TV • 1961

Chaplain Berger

Spin City

TV • 1996

Dr. Marsh Laughlin, DDS

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

TV • 1964

Policeman

Roseanne

TV • 1988

Petticoat Junction

TV • 1963

Mr. Peck

Charlie's Angels

TV • 1976

Bluford Catlin

Mannix

TV • 1967

The Twilight Zone

TV • 1959

Scanlan

Gunsmoke

TV • 1955

Jonas

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Dave Kirby

The Fugitive

TV • 1963

Mayor Duncan

The Fugitive

TV • 1963

Sheriff Claypool

Saints and Sinners

TV • 1962

Walter Hines

Lassie

TV • 1954

Cannon

TV • 1971

The Twilight Zone

TV • 1959

Evans

Lizzie McGuire

TV • 2001

Moe

Ironside

TV • 1967

Laredo

TV • 1965

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

TV • 1955

The Sheriff

Ichabod and Me

TV • 1961

The Wild Wild West

TV • 1965

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Jebidiah Haddlebird

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

The Bradys

TV • 1990

The Fugitive

TV • 1963

Jensen

Father Knows Best

TV • 1954

The Fugitive

TV • 1963

Charlie Fletcher

Family Law

TV • 1999

Frank Watson

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Doc

Lancer

TV • 1968

Lux Video Theatre

TV • 1950

MacGuire

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

TV • 1951

Charlie

The Thin Man

TV • 1957

Matt Houston

TV • 1982

Nichols

TV • 1971

Harrigan

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

TV • 1957

Scooter Jaffee

The Big Valley

TV • 1965

Matt Carson

Black Saddle

TV • 1959

Owen Edwards

Adventures of Superman

TV • 1952

Adventures in Paradise

TV • 1959

Reverend Forbes

Matinee Theater

TV • 1955

Wendy and Me

TV • 1964

The Fugitive

TV • 1963

Hotel Clerk Thomas

Navy Log

TV • 1955

Black Saddle

TV • 1959

Denver Pollock

Wanted: Dead or Alive

TV • 1958

Tom Wade

The Rifleman

TV • 1958

Farley

Bat Masterson

TV • 1958

Will

Law of the Plainsman

TV • 1959

Wesley

The Detectives

TV • 1959

Wichita Town

TV • 1959

The Manhunter

TV • 1974

Cavalcade of America

TV • 1952

John Adams

The Cara Williams Show

TV • 1964

Hank

TV • 1965

Coach Ossie Weiss

Rango

TV • 1967

Stoney Burke

TV • 1962

Johnny Ringo

TV • 1959

Sam

The Man Behind the Badge

TV • 1953

Official Detective

TV • 1957

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

TV • 1959

Dr. Meeker

Letter to Loretta

TV • 1953

Dewey Mason

Ghost Story

TV • 1972

Harry Bell

The Secret Of Lost Creek

TV • 1992

Paper Moon

TV • 1974

The Rifleman

TV • 1958

Marcus Trimble

The Wonderful World of Disney

TV • 1954

Will (uncredited)

Adventures of Superman

TV • 1952

Joe Winters

Surfside 6

TV • 1960

Finney Tate

Diagnosis: Murder

TV • 1993

Danny McNamara

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

Sam

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

TV • 1955

Marshal Crawford

Arrest and Trial

TV • 1963

TV • 1960

TV • 1953

Dr. Merrill

The Outer Limits

TV • 1963

Mr. Bishop

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Bill Cotton

Gunsmoke

TV • 1955

Joe Bean

The Outer Limits

TV • 1963

E. F. Larkin

Cavalcade of America

TV • 1952

Johann

Cavalcade of America

TV • 1952

Adam-12

TV • 1968

Dave Carson

Wanted: Dead or Alive

TV • 1958

TV • 1956

Simon Marsh

Topper

TV • 1953

Jack

The Rockford Files

TV • 1974

Peter Preli

Mannix

TV • 1967

Petey O'Grady (uncredited)

Bonanza

TV • 1959

Sam

The Streets of San Francisco

TV • 1972

Watchman

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

TV • 1955

Theodore the Milkman

The Secret of Lost Creek

TV • 1991

Henry Fogel

Trackdown

TV • 1957

Ward Barrett

Mannix

TV • 1967

Dan Turpin

The Wonderful World of Disney

TV • 1954

Fort Supplier (uncredited)

The Invaders

TV • 1967

The Minister

Lawman

TV • 1958

Les Courtney

The Incredible Hulk

TV • 1977

Dr. Malone

Bonanza

TV • 1959

Hub Dawes

Tightrope

TV • 1959

Skeet

George & Leo

TV • 1997

Studio 57

TV • 1954

Sheriff Barton

Barnaby Jones

TV • 1973

Andy Spake

The Detectives

TV • 1959

The Man

Trackdown

TV • 1957

Mike Kilroy

The Fugitive

TV • 1963

Sgt. Fairfield (uncredited)

The Dick Van Dyke Show

TV • 1961

Mr. Berger

L.A. Law

TV • 1986

Chester Mead

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

TV • 1964

Harper Caldwell

The Dick Van Dyke Show

TV • 1961

Mr. Waring

The Untouchables

TV • 1959

Agent Ned Ferber

The Wonderful World of Disney

TV • 1954

Stilts

The Lone Wolf

TV • 1954

Sheriff Ketton

Frontier

TV • 1955

Ray

Trackdown

TV • 1957

Sheriff Chet Farrow

State Trooper

TV • 1956

Ed Grimes

The Troubleshooters

TV • 1959

Lepage

Ironside

TV • 1967

Mr. Carew

General Electric Theater

TV • 1953

Tom

The Rifleman

TV • 1958

Bert Taylor

The Mod Squad

TV • 1968

Store Owner

The Greatest Show on Earth

TV • 1963

Charles

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Charles Knudsen

Frontier

TV • 1955

Marshal

Little House on the Prairie

TV • 1974

Reverend Robert Alden

Firehouse

TV • 1974

The Second Hundred Years

TV • 1967

General Craven

Steve Canyon

TV • 1958

Ben Moore

Picket Fences

TV • 1992

Rev. Henry Novotny

Gunsmoke

TV • 1955

Mr. Jonas

The Rifleman

TV • 1958

Jack Scully

Rebel Highway

TV • 1994

Gary

Stagecoach West

TV • 1960

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