Trivia

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.

"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.

Twice portrayed characters who worked on death row, in I Want to Live! (1958) and The Green Mile (1999).

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.

He got his stage name "Dabbs" from his grandmother because that was her maiden name.

In the 1940s, he was an instructor at the famous Pasadena Playhouse and was also their Dean of Men.

He was a frequent face on the original Perry Mason TV series, appearing a total of eight times. He also was in 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.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch).

Appeared in two movies where dangerous prisoners take over their surroundings, one of whom is a military man imprisoned for accidentally killing someone in a bar fight. They are Riot in Cell Block 11 (Robert Osterloh) and Con Air (Nicolas Cage).