| rdfs:comment | - Directed How The Tess Was Won (episode).
- Ivan Dixon is an actor who voices Cappy and Bottle in the Fallout 4 add-on Nuka-World.
- Born in the Harlem section of New York City, where his family owned a grocery store, Dixon graduated from North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina in 1954 with a drama degree . He began acting in the late 1950s, appearing on Broadway in William Saroyan's The Cave Dwellers and later Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking drama, A Raisin in the Sun, later appearing in the film version. Moving to Hollywood, he started out as a stuntman. Dixon first screen credit was in the film, Something of Value in 1957. He would later appear in such films as Porgy and Bess, The Defiant Ones, Nothing But a Man, in which he played the lead role, To Trap a Spy, Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came and Car Wash, as well as the CBS Playhouse episode, The Final War of Olly Winter, for which h
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| abstract | - Directed How The Tess Was Won (episode).
- Ivan Dixon is an actor who voices Cappy and Bottle in the Fallout 4 add-on Nuka-World.
- Born in the Harlem section of New York City, where his family owned a grocery store, Dixon graduated from North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina in 1954 with a drama degree . He began acting in the late 1950s, appearing on Broadway in William Saroyan's The Cave Dwellers and later Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking drama, A Raisin in the Sun, later appearing in the film version. Moving to Hollywood, he started out as a stuntman. Dixon first screen credit was in the film, Something of Value in 1957. He would later appear in such films as Porgy and Bess, The Defiant Ones, Nothing But a Man, in which he played the lead role, To Trap a Spy, Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came and Car Wash, as well as the CBS Playhouse episode, The Final War of Olly Winter, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding single performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama, and the TV miniseries Amerika, where he played a doctor and guerilla leader in post-Soviet invasion Nebraska. Perhaps his most memorable scene in the miniseries was his dramatic rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner, which had been banned by the puppet government led by Robert Urich. He would also appeared in such television shows as Perry Mason, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, The Defenders, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, Ironside and The F.B.I.. His last television appearance would be on The Father Dowling Mysteries. From 1970 to 1993, Dixon directed a number of episodes for several television shows, including The Waltons, Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, The Rockford Files, The A-Team, Airwolf and In the Heat of the Night. He would also direct the films, The Spook Who Sat by the Door and Trouble Man. While working in Hollywood, he was active in efforts to get better acting roles for African Americans in both film and television. He would also receive, besides his Emmy nomination, four NAACP Image Awards, the National Black Theatre Award and the Paul Robeson Pioneer Award from the Black American Cinema Society. Dixon moved to Hawaii, where in 1990, as President of his company, Dixon Broadcasting, Inc., he obtained a Federal Communications Commission construction permit, and then built and ran radio station, KONI-FM in Lunai City, Hawaii, which started operations in 1993. He also established a movie production company, Dixon Productions Inc. in Hawaii in 1998, although operating in both Hawaii and California. In 2001, he would sell the station to George Hoffman, and left the islands for health reasons, moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, and then sold the radio station in 2002. On March 16, 2008, Dixon died at the Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte after a hemorrhage and of complications from kidney failure.
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