# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dabbs-greer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:13:02.154Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dabbs-greer"
name: "Dabbs Greer"
slug: "dabbs-greer"
description: "Robert William \"Dabbs\" Greer was an American character actor in film and television for over 60 years. Greer appeared in nearly 100 film roles and in nearly 600 television episodes of various series. He played Mr. Jonas in Gunsmoke, Coach Ossie Weiss in the sitcom Hank, and Reverend Robert Alden in Little House on the Prairie. Greer's final film role was as the 108-year-old Paul Edgecomb, the character played by Tom Hanks in 1999's The Green Mile."
tagline: "American actor (1917−2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dabbs_Greer_in_Hot_Rod_Girl.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1917-04-02"
deathDate: "2007-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339428/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump