Ivan Dixon
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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.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Percy and Thunder |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star |
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— | 1986 |
88% | Car Wash |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Fer-de-Lance |
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— | 1974 |
67% | The Spook Who Sat by the Door |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Trouble Man |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Clay Pigeon |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? |
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— | 1970 |
89% | A Patch of Blue |
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— | 1965 |
96% | Nothing But a Man |
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$9.7k | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Battle at Bloody Beach |
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— | 1961 |
94% | A Raisin in the Sun |
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— | 1961 |
83% | Porgy and Bess |
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— | 1959 |
40% | Something of Value (Africa Ablaze) |
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— | 1957 |
TV
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In the Heat of the Night
1988-1995
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No Score Yet |
Quantum Leap
1989-1993
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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No Score Yet |
Airwolf
1984-1987
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No Score Yet |
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983-1987
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No Score Yet |
The A-Team
1983-1987
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No Score Yet |
The Greatest American Hero
1981-1983
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100% |
Wonder Woman (1976)
1975-1979
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No Score Yet |
The Rockford Files
1974-1980
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No Score Yet |
The Bionic Woman
1976-1978
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No Score Yet |
Quincy, M.E.
1976-1983
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No Score Yet |
The Waltons
1972-1981
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No Score Yet |
Starsky & Hutch
1975-1979
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No Score Yet |
Hogan's Heroes
1965-1971
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No Score Yet |
It Takes a Thief
1968-1970
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
The Fugitive
1963-1967
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100% |
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
1964-1968
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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