ACTOR

Dabbs Greer

1917 - 2007

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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 film roles and appearances in nearly 600 television episodes of various series, Greer may be best remembered as series regular Mr. Jonas in Gunsmoke, as Coach Ossie Weiss in the sitcom Hank, and as series regular Reverend Robert Alden in Little House on the Prairie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dabbs Greer has received more than 1,984,232 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Dabbs Greer is the 1,916th most popular actor (up from 2,380th in 2019), the 3,146th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,854th in 2019) and the 885th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Dabbs Greers by language

Over the past year Dabbs Greer has had the most page views in the with 218,993 views, followed by French (23,648), and German (20,715). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (170.02%), Persian (67.47%), and Spanish (47.31%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dabbs Greer ranks 1,916 out of 13,578. Before him are Mary-Louise Parker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Philip Baker Hall, Nikolay Cherkasov, Lauren Hutton, and Norma Aleandro. After him are Dermot Mulroney, Keith Carradine, Ita Ever, Dana Ivey, Zac Efron, and Nargis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Dabbs Greer ranks 137. Before him are Raymond Burr, Fulbert Youlou, Mak Dizdar, Shams Pahlavi, Brad Dexter, and Kerim Kerimov. After him are Heinrich Ehrler, Georgy Vitsin, Franceska Mann, Robert Conquest, Caspar Weinberger, and Armando Trovajoli. Among people deceased in 2007, Dabbs Greer ranks 129. Before him are Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Bo Yibo, Chandra Shekhar, Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, and Ivica Račan. After him are Andranik Margaryan, Barbara West, Maria Gripe, Malietoa Tanumafili II, Katsuko Saruhashi, and Marais Viljoen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dabbs Greer ranks 3,146 out of 20,380. Before him are Victoria Woodhull (1838), Dean Rusk (1909), Janet Jagan (1920), Wilder Penfield (1891), Fred Rogers (1928), and J. Presper Eckert (1919). After him are Lindsey Buckingham (1949), John Cocke (1925), Paul Robeson (1898), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), and Kathleen Kennedy (1953).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dabbs Greer ranks 885. Before him are Maila Nurmi (1922), Sandra Dee (1942), Mary-Louise Parker (1964), Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), Philip Baker Hall (1931), and Lauren Hutton (1943). After him are Dermot Mulroney (1963), Keith Carradine (1949), Dana Ivey (1941), Zac Efron (1987), Anthony Edwards (1962), and Lesley Gore (1946).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Green Mile
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. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Dec 10o 19998.506 / 10
Con Air
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" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Jun 5o 19976.742 / 10
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Mack Lomax
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Feb 5o 19567.5 / 10