Robert William "Dabbs" Greer (April 2, 1917 – April 28, 2007) was an American character actor in film and television for over 60 years. With nearly 100 movie roles and appearances in nearly 600 television episodes of various series, Greer may be best remembered as series regular "Mr. Jonas" (storekeeper in Gunsmoke), as Coach Ossie Weiss in the sitcom Hank, and as series regular Reverend Robert Alden in Little House on the Prairie. Greer may be better known to later audiences as the 108-year-old version of the character played by Tom Hanks in 1999's The Green Mile.
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Robert William Greer 2 April 1917 Fairview, Missouri, USA
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Died |
28 April 2007 (aged 90) Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, California, USA
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Zodiac | Aries |
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