Dabbs Greer
Dabbs Greer
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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Dabbs Greer:
- Hot Rod Girl with Lori Nelson , John Smith , Chuck Connors , Frank Gorshin
- Runaway Daughters with Paul Rudd , Julie Bowen , Dee Wallace , John Astin , Fabian , Joe Flaherty , Rance Howard , Dick Miller , Robert Picardo , Mark L. Taylor , Roger Corman , Christopher Stone
- Little Giants with Rick Moranis , Ed O'Neill , Devon Sawa , Myron Healey , Rance Howard , Harry Shearer , Frank Welker
- We're Not Married with Ginger Rogers , Fred Allen , Victor Moore , Marilyn Monroe , David Wayne , Eve Arden , Paul Douglas , Eddie Bracken , Mitzi Gaynor , Louis Calhern , Zsa Zsa Gabor , James Gleason , Paul Stewart , Jane Darwell , Al Bridge , Tom Powers , Maurice Cass , Lee Marvin , Marjorie Weaver , Selmer Jackson , James Burke , Byron K. Foulger , Harry Sr. Harvey , Emile G. Meyer , Forbes Murray
- The Spirit of St. Louis with James Stewart , Murray Hamilton , Marc Connelly , Robert Cornthwaite , Arthur Space , Erville Alderson , Griff Barnett , Paul Birch , Eugene Borden , Robert Burton , Virginia Christine , Richard Deacon , Roy Gordon , Olin Howland , Lee Roberts , Sid Saylor , Ray W. Walker , Harlan Warde , Carleton G. Young , Chief Yowlachie , Aaron Spelling
- Monkey Business with Cary Grant , Ginger Rogers , Charles Coburn , Marilyn Monroe , Hugh Marlowe , Robert Cornthwaite , Larry Keating , Douglas Spencer , Esther Dale , Emmett Lynn , George Eldredge , Kathleen Freeman , Mary Field , Gil Stratton , Harry Jr. Carey , Harry Jr. Carey , Olive Carey , Charles "Heinie" Conklin , Paul Maxey , Ray Montgomery , Forbes Murray , Harry Seymour , Ruth Warren , Isabel Withers , Howard Hawks , Jerry Paris
- The Bad and the Beautiful with Kirk Douglas , Lana Turner , Walter Pidgeon , Dick Powell , Barry Sullivan , Gloria Grahame , Gilbert Roland , Leo G. Carroll , Vanessa Brown , Paul Stewart , Ivan Triesault , Elaine Stewart , Kathleen Freeman , Robert Burton , Jay Adler , Stanley Andrews , Barbara Billingsley , Francis X. Bushman , Louis Calhern , Bess Flowers , Steve Forrest , Ned Glass , George J. Lewis , Dorothy Patrick , William "Bill" Phillips , Frank Scannell , Kaaren Verne , William Tannen





