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  Richard Dix Profile
Dix was a prominent leading man at RKO from the early 1930s, reaching a career peak with Cimarron (1931), which won an Oscar®; as Best Picture and brought Dix a Best Actor nomination.
Dix (1893-1949) was born Ernest Carlton Brimmer in St. Paul, Minn., and originally planned to become a surgeon.
Dix joins Joel McCrea and Robert Armstrong in The Lost Squadron (1932) in playing World War I flying aces who become stunt pilots in Hollywood; it was the first RKO movie on which David O. Selznick is credited as executive producer.
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  Richard Dix
Richard Dix (July 18, 1893 - September 20, 1949) was an American actor.
Paul, Minnesota, he had studied to be a surgeon, but he took most of the leading roles while studying drama in school, and after dropping out of the University of Minnesota after one year, got a job at a bank.
Dix has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1610 Vine Street.
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 The four who made the name Dix famous
Dorothea Lynn Dix, born in Hampden, Maine, in1802, was a contemporary of MG Dix.
SSG Dix, with a patrol of Vietnamese soldiers, was recalled to assist in the defense of Chau Phu.
Learning that a nurse was trapped in a house near the center of the city, SSG Dix organized a relief force, successfully rescued the nurse and returned her to the safety of the Tactical Operations Center.
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 Richard Dix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the few actors to successfully bridge the transition from silent films to talkies, Dix's best-remembered early role was in Cecil B. Demille's silent version of The Ten Commandments (1923).
Another memorable role for Dix in the early 1930s was when he starred the next year in a futuristic yarn entitled, Transatlantic Tunnel that predicted things to come.
Dix's human co-stars in that film were Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli, and the film was directed by Lew Landers.
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 Portrait of the actor Richard Dix by Thomas Staedeli
The actor Richard Dix adjoined the acting club at his school and got shortly afterwards most of the leading roles in the school plays.
Richard Dix made his film debut already in 1917 as a butler in "One of Many", but only in 1921 he began to appear regularly in movies, especially in wild west movies.
Richard Dix experienced the height of his career in 1931 when he played the leading role in "Cimarron" (31), for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
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 Amazon.com: Cimarron: DVD: Richard Dix,Irene Dunne,Estelle Taylor,Nance O'Neil,William Collier Jr.,Roscoe Ates,George ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Richard Dix's over-the-top performance is one for the ages, and yet his character still manages to come across as completely unlikeable in spite of the hammy performance.
Richard Dix as Yancey Cravat, Irene Dunne as Sabra Cravat, Estelle Taylor as Dixie Lee, Nance O'Neil as Felice Venable, William Collier Jr.
Tracy Wyatt, Judith Barrett as Donna Cravat, Richard Dix as Yancey Cravat, Irene Dunne as Sabra Cravat, Estelle Taylor as Dixie Lee, Nance O'Neil as Felice Venable, William Collier Jr.
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Richard Dix was a major leading man at RKO Radio Pictures from 1929 through 1943.
Dix was born Ernest Carlton Brimmer July 18, 1893, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Richard Dix the actor, died at age 56 on September 20, 1949.
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 Richard Dix (I)
Richard Dix was a major leading man at RKO Radio Pictures from 1929 through 1943...
In 1953 his son, Richard Dix Jr., was killed in an accident at a logging...
Cast: Franklyn Ardell, Elise Bartlett (as "Helen"), Kathleen Comegys (as "Ethel"), Richard Dix (as "Phil"), Phoebe Foster, James Kearney, Mary Newcombe, Edward G. Robinson (as "Steve'Hassard Short)' (as "Doug"), Robert Strange.
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 © Richard Dix - Silent and Sound Movie Star - goldensilents.com
Dix's cinema debut was in "One Of Many" for Metro in 1917; his second film four years later was called "Not Guilty", in which he played twins.
Richard's pictures were generally successful through the 1930's, but by the 1940's Richard was doing B pictures for Republic Studios.
Richard was married twice, and had four children, a daughter from his marriage to his first wife Winifred Coe, and twin sons and an adopted daughter from his second marriage to Virginia Webster, a marriage which lasted until Richard's sudden death from a heart attack on September 20th, 1949 in Los Angeles.
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 Richard Dix Filmography
Richard Dix stars as railroad troubleshooter Stephen Bent, assigned to supervise the building of 120 miles of track through the treacherous Santa Fe cutoff.
Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry, whose present respectable veneer obscures the fact that he once served a prison sentence.
Dix and Morris battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Lupe Velez.
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 Porträt des Schauspielers Richard Dix by Thomas Staedeli
Der Schauspieler Richard Dix schloss sich in seiner Schulzeit dem dortigen Schauspiel-Club an und erhielt schon bald darauf meist die Hauptrollen der Schulstücke zugesprochen.
Sein Filmdebüt gab Richard Dix bereits 1917 als Butler in "One of Many", doch erst ab 1921 begann er, regelmässig Filme zu drehen, wobei vor allem der Western ihm viele Rollen offerierte.
1931 erlebte Richard Dix den Höhepunkt seiner Karriere, als er für seine Hauptrolle in "Cimarron" (31) für den Oscar nominiert wurde.
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 Richard Dix Web Page
It was the death of star Wallace Reid that brought Richard Dix to Paramount in 1923.
In 1924 Richard Dix was sent to New York for nearly three years to work at Paramount's Astoria studios.
Dix was furious and demanded to buy up his contract for 1 million dollars.
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 Richard Dix
Hard hitting Whistler entry has Richard Dix as an artist married to a sickly rich woman (Mary Currier) who may or may not want to kill her in order to marry a gorgeous model (Leslie Brooks).
Fascinating entry in the Whistler series has Richard Dix as a detective with dubious morals, looking for a rare set of Jenny Lind records and looking for the girl that is the rightful owner of the records.
Richard Dix stars in this impressive early talkie actioner as the leader of a group of people trapped inside a fort while Chinese bandits attack.
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 Videodetective.com - Richard Dix filmography
Actor Richard Dix originally intended to be a surgeon, but dropped out of the University of Minnesota to take a job at a bank.
This led to a long-term contract with Paramount Pictures, where Dix starred in a string of rugged adventure films which defined his standard screen characterization: the modest, dependable, strong and silent man of action who was moved to violence only when there was no other recourse.
This film, for which Dix was himself Oscar-nominated, would remain the high water mark of his talkie career, which gradually diminished into inexpensive programmers and westerns.
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 Richard Dix Web Page
Richard Dix was one of the few actors to make the successful transition from silent pictures to sound.
Remembered mostly for his cowboy roles, Dix was a diverse actor, starring in comedies, dramas, mysteries and historical epics.
Richard Dix hit his peak in 1931 when he was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Yancey Cravat in
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One of the few actors to successfully bridge the transition from silent films to talkies, Dix's best-remembered early role was in Cecil B.
Another memorable role for Dix in the early 30s was when he starred the next year in a futuristic yarn entitled, Transatlantic Tunnel that predicted things to come.
Born Ernest Carlton Brimmer in St. Paul, Minnesota, he had studied to be a surgeon, but he took most of the leading roles while studying drama in school, and after dropping out of the University of Minnesota after one year, got a job at a bank.
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 Richard Dix
FOOTBALL landed Richard Dix on the stage for the first time, and after that nothing could keep him off.
As this was one of the best things young Dix did in his collegiate course, he hustled forth and secured the job.
Dix's cinema debut was in "Not Guilty." Among his successful screen appearances are his roles in "The Dangerous Curve Ahead," "The Glorious Fool," "The Poverty of Riches," "The Christian," and Rupert Hughes' film version of his novel of motion-picture life, "Souls for Sale." Mr.
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 Amazon.ca: Cimarron: Video: Wesley Ruggles,Richard Dix,Irene Dunne,Estelle Taylor,Nance O'Neil,William Collier ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Heartthrob Richard Dix plays Yancey Cravat (yes, really, that's his name) a frontiersman, newspaper editor, and former gunslinger who's studly enough to fill in as preacher or lawyer should the situation demand.
Likewise, the treatment of womens' roles and Indian rights are amazingly far ahead of their time -even going so far as to touch on interracial marriage and the potential of women to be stronger and even more efficient than men -which at a time when the suffragists were still alive, has got to be commended.
I thought Dix captured the blustery over the top persona of Yancey Cravat (who was based on a real-life gunslinging attorney who was a son of Sam Houston -the courtroom soliloquy to save the prostitute is culled directly from historic record) perfectly.
www.amazon.ca /Cimarron-Wesley-Ruggles/dp/6301967720   (1816 words)

  
 The Tunnel (1934) DVD - Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans, Helen Vinson - RetroFLICKS.com
Richard Dix plays McAllen, a visionary engineer who devotes his life to the construction of an underground trans-Atlantic tunnel to link New York with London.
Despite devastating professional and personal setbacks, including the death of his own son in a tunnel cave-in, nothing dissuades Dix from completing the project.
Walter Huston and George Arliss are cast in respective cameos as the American President and the British Prime Minister.
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 Richard Dix (I) - Biography
Throughout the 1930s Dix would be a big box-office draw at RKO, appearing in mystery thrillers, potboilers, westerns and programmers.
Richard Dix the actor, died at age 56 on September 20, 1949.
In 1953 his son, Richard Dix Jr., was killed in an accident at a logging camp near Ponderosa, California.
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 Biography for Richard Dix (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1931 he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his masterful performance in Cimarron (1931), winner of the Best Picture Oscar that year.
Throughout the 1930s Dix would be a big box-office draw at RKO, appearing in mystery thrillers, potboilers, westerns and programmers.
and Robert Dix and an adopted daughter, Sara Sue.
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 Richard Dix - Overview - MSN Movies
September 20, 1949 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Actor Richard Dix originally intended to be a surgeon, but dropped out of the University of Minnesota to take a job at a bank.
Deciding to become a professional performer, Dix secured work with a stock company, eventually graduating to leading-man parts with the celebrated Morosco stock troupe.
Switching from Paramount to RKO Radio in the early talkie period, Dix starred as empire-building...
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 Richard Dix
Despite the film's huge financial and critical success and a personal Oscar nomination, Dix found himself subsequently drifting into second features.
For the rest of his career he appeared mostly in B pictures, typically in the action vein.
His son, Robert Dix, has also appeared in films, in both leads and supporting parts.
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 Richard Dix - Photos, Bio and News for Richard Dix | TVGuide.com
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 Re: RICHARD DIX - the movie actor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Richard Dix the movie star, my father was born in Wales and always talked about his
cousin Richard Dix the movie star, I can't find out who his mother or father was, but would like the name of his wife if you have it.
Do you know if his children were Tom and Carla as that is the names who donated the photo's of his grave.
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 Richard Dix News
Galloway placed his signature to a term contract this morning and now every one is busy looking for a suitable part for him.
All of which accounts for the fact that stories have been circulating of late that Richard Dix is going to leave Radio Pictures as soon as his contract, which calls for one more picture, expires.
Estabrook is the man who wrote the memorable adaptation of Edna Ferber's Cimarron, in which Dix was starred with Irene Dunne.
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 Vanishing American | DVDs | MTV Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Starring: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr.
The Paramount team of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson starred in this top-notch silent western in which a Native American is the protagonist.
It certainly benefits from sincere portrayals of Dix and Wilson, the latter playing a dedicated schoolmarm desired by Dix and lusted after by Beery.
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CAST: Richard Dix, Purnell Pratt, Shirley Grey, Ruth Weston,
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 Richard Dix - Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile
Bio: Richard Dix (July 18, 1893 - September 20, 1949) was an American actor.
Born Ernest Carlton Brimmer in St. Paul, Minnesota, he had studied to be a surgeon but took most of the leading roles while studying drama in school.
There are no Richard Dix user fan sites.
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