Dan Biggers

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

Life and career Biggers was born in Newton County, Georgia in 1931. 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 1967, he was dean of students at Berry College. A student uprising overtook the campus security team during his tenure as dean of students. Prior to Darlington School he had been on the staff of Dean Tate, Dean of Men at the University of Georgia and escorted Charlayne Hunter (now a correspondent for PBS) to class when she integrated the University of Georgia in 1960.

Death Biggers died in Rome, Georgia, in the morning of December 5, 2011.