Background
Biggers was born in Newton County, Georgia in 1931.
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Dan Biggers
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He was an English instructor at Toccoa High School in the late 1950s. In 1963 he became headmaster of Thornwood (Darlington Lower School) in Rome, Georgia. Beginning in 1971, he was Dean of Students at Berry College.
Before that, he was on the staff of the Dean of Men at the University of Georgia and escorted Charlayne Hunter (now a correspondent for Public Broadcasting Service) to class when she integrated the University of Georgia in 1960.
From 1976 until his retirement in 1996, he was the director of Oak Hill and the Martha Berry Museum. He was also on the board of directors of the Greater Rome Convention and Visitors Bureau for 13 years and helped develop the Northwest Georgia Travel Association.
In 1983 he was awarded the Phoenix Award for conservation and preservation by the Society of American Travel Writers. His first television appearance was in Maid in America in 1962 and his last in Elizabethtown in 2005.
His breakout role was in The Slugger"s Wife in 1985.
He played "Doc" Robb on In the Heat of the Night for eight years. Death
Biggers died in Rome, Georgia in the morning of December 5, 2011.
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