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Ivan Dixon

Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon
Born: Apr 06, 1931 in New York, New York
Died: Mar 16, 2008
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '60s-'70s
Major Genres: Comedy
Career Highlights: A Raisin in the Sun, Nothing But a Man, A Patch of Blue
First Major Screen Credit: The Twilight Zone: The Big Tall Wish (1960)
4 Videos for Ivan Dixon
A Patch of Blue (1965) Nothing But a Man (1964) A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
A Patch of Blue (1965)
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Biography:

Forceful African American leading man Ivan Dixon first commanded notice from theatergoers for his performance in the 1957 Broadway play The Cave Dwellers. He entered films as Sidney Poiter's double and stand-in with Something of Value (1957) and The Defiant Ones (1958), ultimately sharing scenes with Poitier in Porgy and Bess (1959) and Raisin in the Sun (1961).

In 1964's Nothing But a Man, Dixon starred as Duff Anderson, an irresponsible Alabama railroad worker whose late-blooming maturity forms the nucleus of the film. Dixon's TV work includes the role of Kinchloe on the POW sitcom Hogan's Heroes and his Emmy-nominated starring role on the 1967 dramatic special The Private War of Olly Winter.

In his later years, Ivan Dixon remained active as a director and a performer: he helmed the theatrical features Trouble Man (1972) and The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1992), such TV movies as Love is Not Enough and Percy and Thunder, and several episodes of the TV adventure series Hawaiian Heat (1984).

Dixon died at age 76 in March 2008. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.