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name: "Ivan Dixon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ivan-dixon"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "6 April 1931"
died: "16 March 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T16:51:04.158605+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ivan Dixon

Director. Born 6 April 1931 in Harlem, New York, USA. Died 16 March 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 6 April 1931, Harlem, New York, USA
- **Died:** 16 March 2008
- **Also known as:** Ivan Dixon III, Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III

## Biography

Ivan Dixon was an American actor and director. Born Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III on 6 April 1931 in Harlem, New York, he studied drama at North Carolina Central University. He began his career on stage, appearing in the original Broadway production of *A Raisin in the Sun* (1959) and its 1961 film adaptation.

Dixon is best known for playing Staff Sergeant James 'Kinch' Kinchloe in the sitcom *Hogan's Heroes* (1965–1970). He also starred in the independent film *Nothing But a Man* (1964) and received an Emmy nomination for the television drama *The Final War of Olly Winter* (1967). From the 1970s he worked extensively as a television director on series including *The Waltons*, *The Rockford Files* (nine episodes, 1975–1979), *Magnum, P.I.* and *The A-Team*, as well as feature films such as *Trouble Man* (1972) and *The Spook Who Sat by the Door* (1973). He died on 16 March 2008 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Rockford Files* (1974), Fi1m 83, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-rockford-files.md)

## Also known for

- *The A-Team* (1983), Director
- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), Reverend Anderson — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)
- *Quantum Leap* (1989), Director
- *Wonder Woman* (1975), Director
- *Airwolf* (1984), Director
- *Magnum, P.I.* (1980), Director
- *The Bionic Woman* (1976), Director
- *Starsky & Hutch* (1975), Director

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