Dabbs Greer Net Worth

Dabbs Greer's Quotes

• Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

Interesting Facts about Dabbs Greer

1. He played the first person saved by Superman in the very first episode of the Adventures of Superman (1952) television series. His role was uncredited. He was brought back to appear in a major role as an innocent man about to go to the electric chair in the first episode of the second season. He appeared for a third time in one of the final episodes of the series.
2. Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch).
3. In the 1940s, he was an instructor at the famous Pasadena Playhouse and was also their Dean of Men.
4. He got his stage name "Dabbs" from his grandmother because that was her maiden name.
5. "Married" two of the most well-known couples on television. On The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) he played the army chaplain who married Rob and Laura Petrie, and on The Brady Bunch (1969) he played the minister who married Mike and Carol Brady.
6. Twice portrayed characters who worked on death row, in I Want to Live! (1958) and The Green Mile (1999).
7. He made his film debut as an extra in the 1938 movie "Jesse James," which was filmed mainly in Pineville. "They were paying $5 a day a day to local people for being extras. That was really good money in those days, more money than we had seen in a long time," he told the Neosho Daily News in 2002.
8. He was a frequent face on the original Perry Mason TV series, appearing a total of eight times. He also was in The Dick Van Dyke Show: One Angry Man (1962), which poked fun at Perry Mason by having a prosecutor named Mason and a defense attorney named Berger (played by Mr. Greer), just the opposite from the Perry Mason series.