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 re...
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Complete Filmography

Walking the Mile
2014
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen King's novel.
Family
2006
as Another Great-Grandfather
This is unknown animated movie about family.
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
2000
as Self (uncredited)
Frank Darabont explains how this new project was introduced thru a phone call from Stephen King as "another prison tale" if he was interested to make ...

The Green Mile
1999
as Old Paul Edgecomb
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. Wh...

Con Air
1997
as Old Man Under Truck
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" takin...

Little Giants
1994
as Wilbur
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag pla...

Runaway Daughters
1994
as Gary
Angie, Mary, and Laura are teenage girls who are fed up with their bland and unexciting small town lives. Mary discovers that she's pregnant after hav...

House IV
1992
as Dad
Unaware that it's plagued by a host of supernatural phenomena, a mother and her daughter, still reeling from a car crash which claimed the life of Rog...

Pacific Heights
1990
as Mr. Thayer
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
1989
as Otto
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sunscreen to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious con...

Two Moon Junction
1988
as Kyle
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugg...

Bonanza: The Next Generation
1988
as Sills
This is the continuing saga of the Cartwrights, only none of the original Cartwrights are here anymore but their sons. Ben and Hoss have passed on, an...

Evil Town
1987
as Lyle Phelps
A mad scientist seeks eternal youth by developing a drug derived from human pituitary glands, aided by the local townsfolk, who help abduct visitors t...

Little House: Look Back to Yesterday
1983
as Rev. Robert Alden
Albert Quinn Ingalls wants to be a doctor. But soon he discovers that he is fatally ill. He decides to spend the rest of his life in Walnut Grove. Mea...

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981
as Wally
Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, be...

The Winds of Kitty Hawk
1978
as Ace Hutchin
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.

Green Eyes
1977
as Mr. Cousins
Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.

Dr. Shagetz
1975
as Lyle Phelps
Passing through a small town, two young hippie couples stumble upon a town where the old folks all act strange and even stranger things are happening ...

The Greatest Gift
1974
as Deacon Hurd
Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along with a violent, bullying sheriff whilst protecting his...

White Lightning
1973
as Pa McKlusky
An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Rage
1972
as Dr. Thompson
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable fo...

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
1970
as Stilts
A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, wh...

The Cheyenne Social Club
1970
as Jedediah W. Willowby
Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.

Shenandoah
1965
as Abernathy
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his ...

Roustabout
1964
as Arthur Nielsen
After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to fricti...

Palm Springs Weekend
1963
as Boys' Club Leader (uncredited)
Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds rom...

Showdown
1963
as Express Man
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.

Cash McCall
1960
as Bronson (uncredited)
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. W...

Edge of Eternity
1959
as Gas Station Attendant
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the...

Last Train from Gun Hill
1959
as Deputy Andy
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

Day of the Outlaw
1959
as Doc Langer, Veterinarian
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious lead...

Lone Texan
1959
as Doc Jansen
After the Civil War, a Texan who served in the Union army comes back home to find himself ostracized by his neighbors for having fought against the Co...

I Want to Live!
1958
as San Quentin Capt.
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

It! The Terror from Beyond Space
1958
as Eric Royce
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.

Baby Face Nelson
1957
as FBI Agent Charles Bonner
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).

All Mine to Give
1957
as Clendenning
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become wel...

Young and Dangerous
1957
as Mr. John Clinton
Tommy Price is the leader of a gang of young thugs interested in thrills, hot rods and girls. His friends bet him he can't make it with 17-year-old Ro...

My Man Godfrey
1957
as Lieutenant O'Connor
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and notic...

The Hired Man
1957
as Bill Rockwell
The LA County sheriff's department is on the hunt for a man who approaches his victims as a prospective used car buyer. Directed by Don Siegel for the...

Pawnee
1957
as John Brewster
Pale Arrow is a white man raised since a boy by the Pawnee Chief. With wagon trains now encroaching on Pawnee land, the Chief sends Pale Arrow to be w...

Johnny Tremain
1957
as Nat Lorne
When an injury bars him from pursuing his trade, Revolutionary War-era silversmith's apprentice Johnny Tremain finds a new life in the ranks of the So...

The Vampire
1957
as Dr. Will Beaumont
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty ...

The Giant Claw
1957
as Fighter Pilot, (archive footage) (uncredited)
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard fo...

The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
as Goldsborough (uncredited)
Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.

Chain of Evidence
1957
as Dr. Ainsley - Psychiatrist
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliot...

Hot Cars
1956
as Det. Davenport
Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.

Tension at Table Rock
1956
as Doctor (uncredited)
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.

The Young Guns
1956
as Fred
After he's continually harrassed and bullied by his town's citizens, the orphaned teenage son of a notorious gunslinger takes flight and joins a gang ...

D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
as Driver
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956
as Mr. Smith-Johnson (uncredited)
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't lik...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956
as Mack Lomax
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

At Gunpoint
1955
as Funeral Minister
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.

The Seven Little Foys
1955
as Tutor
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they...

The Scarlet Coat
1955
as Capt. Brewster
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.

Foxfire
1955
as Bus Driver (uncredited)
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

An Annapolis Story
1955
as Cmdr. Halleck (uncredited)
Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.

Private Hell 36
1954
as Sam Marvin (uncredited)
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Poli...

Living It Up
1954
as Leader of the Boy Rangers (uncredited)
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic provi...

The Desperado
1954
as U.S. Marshal Jim Langley
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fug...

Lucky Me
1954
as Eddie Szczepanski (uncredited)
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promi...

Bitter Creek
1954
as Sheriff
"Wild" Bill Elliott is a cowboy who goes in search of the man who killed his brother, and finds himself in the small town of Bitter Creek.

Riot in Cell Block 11
1954
as Schuyler
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

She Couldn't Say No
1954
as Dick Jordan
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.

Take the High Ground!
1953
as Shorty (uncredited)
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he r...

China Venture
1953
as Galuppo
American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.

Mister Scoutmaster
1953
as Fireman (uncredited)
Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Sco...

Mission Over Korea
1953
as Pilot
A rookie pilot in the Korean War wants to avenge his brother's death.

Affair with a Stranger
1953
as Happy Murray
Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband.

A Slight Case of Larceny
1953
as Eddie
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.

Remains to Be Seen
1953
as Julius (uncredited)
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

Half a Hero
1953
as George Payson
A man moves his family from the big city to the suburbs.

House of Wax
1953
as Shane
A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who de...

Trouble Along the Way
1953
as Father Peterson
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at t...

The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
as Studio Lighting Technician (uncredited)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...

Because of You
1952
as Tijuana Shop Owner (uncredited)
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

Monkey Business
1952
as Cabbie (uncredited)
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixe...

We're Not Married!
1952
as Beauty Contest Spectator (uncredited)
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally m...

Sally and Saint Anne
1952
as Mr. Parker
An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.

Scarlet Angel
1952
as Robbery Victim
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.

Young Man with Ideas
1952
as Telephone Man (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

Deadline - U.S.A.
1952
as Reporter (uncredited)
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Deadline - U.S.A.
1952
as Day Reporter (uncredited)
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

Room for One More
1952
as Scoutmaster (uncredited)
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her hu...

Week-End with Father
1951
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Two single parents shock their children by falling in love.

The Unknown Man
1951
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

Father's Little Dividend
1951
as Green Taxicab's Driver (uncredited)
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be...

Storm Warning
1951
as Courtroom Cop (uncredited)
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sis...

California Passage
1950
as Dealer (uncredited)
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure ...

Devil's Doorway
1950
as Spud Keith (uncredited)
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

The Damned Don't Cry
1950
as Reporter (uncredited)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Reign of Terror
1949
as Bridge Guard (uncredited)
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who,...