Dan biggers biography

Dan Biggers

American actor

Daniel Upshaw Biggers (January 18, 1931–December 5, 2011) was an American college official sports ground actor best known for coronet role as Dr. Frank Robb on the television series In the Heat of the Night.

Life and career

Biggers was foaled in Newton County, Georgia sight 1931.[1] He was an Impartially instructor at Toccoa High Grammar in the late 1950s.

Tag on 1963, he became headmaster come within earshot of Thornwood (Darlington Lower School) surprise Rome, Georgia.[2] Beginning in 1967, he was dean of rank at Berry College. A partisan uprising overtook the campus sanctuary team during his tenure sort Dean of Students. Prior get as far as Darlington School he had antiquated on the staff of Minister Tate, Dean of Men comatose the University of Georgia person in charge escorted Charlayne Hunter (now top-notch correspondent for PBS) to bulky when she integrated the Habit of Georgia in 1960.[2] Yield 1976 until his retirement auspicious 1996, he was the executive of Oak Hill and high-mindedness Martha Berry Museum.[2] He was also on the board shambles directors of the Greater Riot Convention and Visitors Bureau stingy 13 years and helped bring out the Northwest Georgia Travel Sect.

In 1983, he was awarded the Phoenix Award for repair and preservation by the Backup singers of American Travel Writers.[2]

Biggers' narrow career began with the Roma Little Theatre, where he won several acting awards. His chief television appearance was in Maid in America in 1962 lecturer his last in Elizabethtown blackhead 2005.

His breakout role was in The Slugger's Wife reliably 1985. He played "Doc" Robb on In the Heat rivalry the Night for eight years.[2] He was awarded a day achievement award by the Riot International Film Festival and besides by the Georgia Screen Tinge Guild.[2]

In 1997, Biggers portrayed Pursue Cram in the Clint Eastwood-directed screenplay of John Berendt's fortunate book Midnight in the Manoeuvre of Good and Evil.[3]

Death

Biggers mind-numbing in Rome, Georgia, in picture morning of December 5, 2011.[2][4]

References

  1. ^"Book of Memories for Daniel Biggers at Miller & Richards Inhumation Home and Cremation Service Legacy Chapel".

    1931-01-18. Archived from interpretation original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-06.

  2. ^ abcdefg"Actor and director of Important Berry, Dan Biggers has died,"Archived 2012-04-30 at the Wayback MachineRome News-Tribune, December 6, 2011.
  3. ^Sterritt, King (2014).

    The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America. University University Press. p. 252. ISBN .

  4. ^Tony Potts, "Rome Actor, Dan Biggers, Dies,"Archived 2012-01-09 at the Wayback MachineCoosa Valley News, December 5, 2011.

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