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.
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Magnum, P.I.: Old Acquaintance
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Magnum, P.I.: Jororo Farewell
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Magnum, P.I.: Murder 101
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Magnum, P.I.: Under World
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The A-Team: Harder Than it Looks
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Magnum, P.I.: A Sense of Debt
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Magnum, P.I.: Basket Case
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Magnum, P.I.: I Do?
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Magnum, P.I.: Flashback
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Love Is Not Enough
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The Waltons: The Fighter
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Fer-De-Lance
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The Sty of the Blind Pig
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Trouble Man
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