Dabbs Greer
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One of the most prolific of the "Who IS that?"school of character actors, Dabbs Greer has been playing small-town doctors, bankers, merchants, druggists, mayors and ministers since at least 1950. His purse-lipped countenance and Midwestern twang was equally effective in taciturn villainous roles. Essentially a bit player in films of the 1950s (Diplomatic Courier, Deadline USA, Living It Up), Greer was given more screen time than usual as a New York detective in House of Wax (1953), while his surface normality served as excellent contrast to the extraterrestrial goings-on in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and It! The Terror from Beyond Space. A television actor since the dawn of the cathode-tube era, Greer has shown up in hundreds of TV supporting roles, including the "origin" episode of the original Superman series, in which he played the dangling dirigible worker rescued in mid-air by the Man of Steel. Greer also played the recurring roles of storekeeper Mr. Jones on Gunsmoke (1955-60) and Reverend Robert Alden on Little House on the Prairie (1974-83). Showing no signs of slowing down, Dabbs Greer continued accepting roles in such films as Two Moon Junction (1988) and Pacific Heights (1990) into the '90s. He died following a battle with kidney and heart disease, on April 28, 2007, not quite a month after his 90th birthday.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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78% | The Green Mile |
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— | 1999 |
56% | Con Air |
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— | 1997 |
36% | Little Giants |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Runaway Daughters |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | House IV (House 4: The Repossession) (House IV: Home Deadly Home) |
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— | 1991 |
50% | Pacific Heights |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat |
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— | 1990 |
0% | Two Moon Junction |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Evil Town |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Chu Chu and the Philly Flash |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | The Winds Of Kitty Hawk |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | The Greatest Gift |
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— | 1974 |
86% | White Lightning |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Rage |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The Cheyenne Social Club |
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— | 1970 |
100% | Shenandoah |
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— | 1965 |
56% | Roustabout |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | Showdown |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Cash McCall |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Edge of Eternity |
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— | 1959 |
100% | Day of the Outlaw |
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— | 1959 |
83% | Last Train from Gun Hill |
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— | 1959 |
69% | It! The Terror From Beyond Space |
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— | 1958 |
93% | I Want to Live! |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | My Man Godfrey |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Pawnee (Pale Arrow) |
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— | 1957 |
85% | The Spirit of St. Louis |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Chain of Evidence |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Mark Of The Vampire |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | The Vampire |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Baby Face Nelson |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | D-Day: The Sixth of June |
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— | 1956 |
98% | Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Hot Rod Girl |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Seven Little Foys |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Foxfire |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | The Scarlet Coat |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | The McConnell Story |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Private Hell 36 |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Living It Up |
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— | 1954 |
100% | Riot in Cell Block 11 |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | She Couldn't Say No |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Rose Marie |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Affair With a Stranger |
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— | 1953 |
95% | House of Wax |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Trouble Along the Way |
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— | 1953 |
79% | The Bad and the Beautiful |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Dream Wife |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Mr. Scoutmaster |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Above and Beyond |
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— | 1952 |
88% | Monkey Business |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | We're Not Married |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Diplomatic Courier |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Room for One More |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | The Unknown Man |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Storm Warning |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Call Me Mister |
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— | 1951 |
100% | Father's Little Dividend |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | The Sound of Fury (Try and Get Me!) |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | The Damned Don't Cry |
|
— | 1950 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Little House on the Prairie
1974-1984
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100% |
Lizzie McGuire
2001-2004
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88% |
Maybe It's Me
2001-2002
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No Score Yet |
Diagnosis Murder
1993-2001
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No Score Yet |
Family Law
1999-2002
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66% |
Spin City
1996-2002
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61% |
Ally McBeal
1997-2002
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82% |
Picket Fences
1992-1996
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No Score Yet |
Empty Nest
1988-1995
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No Score Yet |
In the Heat of the Night
1988-1995
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76% |
Roseanne
1988-2018
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No Score Yet |
Charlie's Angels
1976-1981
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No Score Yet |
The Incredible Hulk
1978-1982
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No Score Yet |
The Rockford Files
1974-1980
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No Score Yet |
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-1977
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Wild Wild West
1965-1969
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No Score Yet |
The Fugitive
1963-1967
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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No Score Yet |
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961-1966
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No Score Yet |
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-1968
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
The Adventures of Superman
1952-1958
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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No Score Yet |
Father Knows Best
1954-1960
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No Score Yet |
Charles in Charge
1984-1990
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Quotes from Dabbs Greer's Characters
Paul Edgecomb (elderly): | And I think about all of us walking our own green mile... ...each in our own time. |
Paul Edgecomb (elderly): | We each owe a Death,There are no exceptions, But Oh God, Sometimes, the green mile seems so long. |
Paul Edgecomb (elderly): | We each owe a Death. There are no exceptions, but oh god, sometimes, the green mile seems so long. |
Paul Edgecomb (elderly): | We each owe a death - there are no exceptions - but, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long. |
Paul Edgecomb (elderly): | We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, but oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long. |