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Richard Dix (born Ernst Carlton Brimmer;[1] July 18, 1893 – September 20, 1949) was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film.[2] His standard on-screen image was that of the rugged and stalwart hero. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead role in the Best Picture-winning epic Cimarron (1931).[3]

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Richard Dix
Dix in 1923
Born	Ernst Carlton Brimmer (1893-07-18)July 18, 1893 Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	September 20, 1949(1949-09-20) (aged 56) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1914–1947
Spouses	Winifred Coe ​ ​ (m. 1931; div. 1933)​ Virginia Webster ​ (m. 1934)​
Children	4

Early life

Dix was born on July 18, 1893, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[4]

He was educated there and, to please his father, studied to be a surgeon. His obvious acting talent in his school dramatic club led him to leading roles in most of the school plays. Standing 6 feet and weighing 180 pounds, Dix excelled in sports, especially football and baseball. After a year at the University of Minnesota, he took a position at a bank, and trained for the stage in the evening. His professional start was with a local stock company, and this led to similar work in New York City. He then went to Los Angeles and became leading man for the Morosco Stock Company.[5] His success there earned him a contract with Paramount Pictures.

Career

He then changed his name to Richard Dix. After his move to Hollywood, he began a career in Western movies. One of the few leading men 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). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1931 for his performance as Yancey Cravat in Cimarron, in which he was billed over Irene Dunne. Cimarron, based on the popular novel by Edna Ferber, took the Best Picture award. Dix starred in another RKO adventure, The Lost Squadron.

A memorable role for Dix was in the 1935 British futuristic film The Tunnel. Dix starred in The Great Jasper and Blind Alibi in the late 1930s. His popular RKO Radio Pictures co-star in Blind Alibi was Ace the Wonder Dog. Dix's human co-stars were Whitney Bourne and Eduardo Ciannelli; the film was directed by Lew Landers. Dix also starred as the homicidal Captain Stone in the Val Lewton production of The Ghost Ship, directed by Mark Robson.

In 1941, Dix played Wild Bill Hickok in Badlands of Dakota and portrayed Wyatt Earp the following year in Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die, featuring Edgar Buchanan as Curly Bill Brocious.

In 1944, he starred in The Whistler, a feature film produced by Columbia Pictures based on the popular radio program. The film adaptation was popular enough to become a series. In these offbeat, crime-related stories, Dix did not play "The Whistler" (who was an unseen narrator representing the central character's conscience). He appeared in a variety of characterizations, some sympathetic, others hard-boiled, but always victims of fate and circumstances conspiring against him. Dix retired from acting after the seventh of these films, The Thirteenth Hour. He suffered a heart attack in October 1948[6] and continued to have heart trouble until his death within the year.

Hobbies

According to the July 1934 Movies magazine, on his ranch near Hollywood, the location of which he kept a close secret, Dix raised thousands of chickens and turkeys each year. He also had a collection of thousands of pipes, and a "collection" of 36 dogs, "Scotties and English setters". He also read at least five books a week.^{[citation needed]}

Private life

Richard Dix married his first wife, Winifred Coe, on October 20, 1931. They had a daughter, Martha Mary Ellen. They divorced in 1933. He married his second wife, Virginia Webster, on June 29, 1934. They had twin boys, Richard Jr. and Robert Dix, and an adopted daughter, Sara Sue.

Dix supported Thomas Dewey in the 1944 United States presidential election.[7]

Death

After years of fighting alcoholism, Dix suffered a serious heart attack on September 12, 1949, while on a train from New York to Los Angeles.[8][note 1][4][note 2][9] Dix died at the age of 56 on September 20, 1949. He had four children from his two marriages. One of these was the actor Robert Dix (1935–2018). Richard Dix, Sr. was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.[10]

Recognition

Dix has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Motion Pictures section at 1610 Vine Street. It was dedicated February 8, 1960.[11]

Filmography

Silent Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1917	One of Many	James Lowery	lost
1921	Not Guilty	Paul Ellison / Arthur Ellison	lost
	All's Fair in Love	Bobby Cameron	lost
	Dangerous Curve Ahead	Harley Jones	lost
	The Poverty of Riches	John Colby	lost
1922	Yellow Men and Gold	Parrish	lost
	Fools First	Tommy Frazer	lost
	The Wall Flower	Walt Breen	lost
	The Bonded Woman	Lee Marvin	survives; copy at Gosfilmofond
	The Sin Flood	Bill Bear	lost
	The Glorious Fool	Billy Grant	lost
1923	The Christian	John Storm	extant; George Eastman House
	Quicksands	Lieutenant Bill	lost
	Souls for Sale	Frank Claymore	extant
	The Woman with Four Faces	Richard Templar	lost
	Racing Hearts	Robby Smith	lost
	To the Last Man	Jean Isbel	survives; copy at Gosfilmofond
	The Ten Commandments	John McTavish	extant; George Eastman, Library of Congress
	The Call of the Canyon	Glenn Kilbourne	extant; Gosfilmofond, Library of Congress
1924	The Stranger	Larry Darrant	lost
	Icebound	Ben Jordan	lost
	Unguarded Women	Douglas Albright	lost
	Sinners In Heaven	Alan Croft	lost
	Manhattan	Peter Minuit	extant
1925	Too Many Kisses	Richard Gaylord, Jr	extant; Library of Congress
	A Man Must Live	Geoffrey Farnell	lost
	The Shock Punch	Randall Lee Savage	extant;Library of Congress
	Men and Women	Will Prescott	lost
	The Lucky Devil	Randy Farnum	extant;Library of Congress
	The Vanishing American	Nophaie	extant;Library of Congress
	Womanhandled	Bill Dana	extant;Library of Congress
1926	Let's Get Married	Billy Dexter	extant;Library of Congress
	Fascinating Youth	Himself (cameo)	lost
	Say It Again	Bob Howard	lost
	The Quarterback	Jack Stone	extant;Library of Congress
1927	Paradise for Two	Steve Porter	lost
	Knockout Reilly	Dundee "Knockout" Reilly	lost
	Man Power	Tom Roberts	lost
	Shanghai Bound	Jim Bucklin	lost
	The Gay Defender	Joaquin Murrieta	lost
1928	Sporting Goods	Richard Shelby	lost
	Easy Come, Easy Go	Robert Parker	lost
	Warming Up	Bert Tulliver	lost; filmed in silent and Movietone sound version with music and sound effects only
	Moran of the Marines	Michael Moran	lost
1929	Redskin	Wingfoot	extant; Library of Congress; partly filmed in Technicolor

Sound films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1929	Nothing But the Truth	Robert Bennett
	The Wheel of Life	Captain Leslie Yeullet
	The Love Doctor	Dr. Gerald Summer
	Seven Keys to Baldpate	William Halliwell Magee
1930	Lovin' the Ladies	Peter Darby
	Shooting Straight	Larry Sheldon
1931	Cimarron	Yancey Cravat	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
	Young Donovan's Kid	Jim Donovan
	The Public Defender	Pike Winslow
	Secret Service	Captain Lewis Dumont
1932	The Lost Squadron	Capt. "Gibby" Gibson
	Roar of the Dragon	Captain Chauncey Carson
	Hell's Highway	Frank 'Duke' Ellis
	The Conquerors	Roger Standish / Roger Standish Lennox
1933	The Great Jasper	Jasper Horn
	No Marriage Ties	Bruce Foster
	Ace of Aces	2nd Lt. Rex "Rocky" Thorne
	Day of Reckoning	John Day
1934	Stingaree	Stingaree
	His Greatest Gamble	Phillip Eden
	West of the Pecos	Pecos Smith
1935	The Arizonian	Clay Tallant
	The Tunnel	Richard 'Mack" McAllan
1936	Yellow Dust	Bob Culpepper
	Special Investigator	William "Bill" Fenwick
	Devil's Squadron	Paul Redmond
1937	The Devil's Playground	Jack Dorgan
	The Devil is Driving	Paul Driscoll
	It Happened in Hollywood	Tim Bart
1938	Blind Alibi	Paul Dover
	Sky Giant	Capt. W.R. "Stag" Cahill
1939	Twelve Crowded Hours	Nick Green
	Man of Conquest	Sam Houston
	Here I Am a Stranger	Duke Allen
	Reno	William Shayne aka Bill Shear
1940	The Marines Fly High	Lt. Danny Darrick
	Men Against the Sky	Phil Mercedes
	Cherokee Strip	Marshal Dave Lovell
1941	The Round Up	Steve Payson
	Badlands of Dakota	Wild Bill Hickok
1942	Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die	Wyatt Earp
	Eyes of the Underworld	Police Chief Richard Bryan
	American Empire	Dan Taylor
1943	Buckskin Frontier	Stephen Bent
	The Kansan	John Bonniwell
	Top Man	Tom Warren
	The Ghost Ship	Captain Will Stone
1944	The Whistler	Earl C. Conrad
	The Mark of the Whistler	Lee Selfridge Nugent
1945	The Power of the Whistler	William Everest
	Voice of the Whistler	John Sinclair (John Carter)
1946	Mysterious Intruder	Don Gale
	The Secret of the Whistler	Ralph Harrison
1947	The Thirteenth Hour	Steve Reynolds	(final film role)

Notes

References

Bibliography

• Dix, Robert. Out of Hollywood: Two Generations of Actors. Ernest Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9822436-0-2
• Van Neste, Dan. "The Whistler: Stepping Into the Shadows". Albany, GA: BearManor Media, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59393-402-6

External links

• Richard Dix at IMDb
• Richard Dix at the Internet Broadway Database
• Richard Dix tribute site
• Photographs of Richard Dix

На других языках

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[de] Richard Dix

Richard Dix (* 18. Juli 1893 in St. Paul, Minnesota; † 20. September 1949 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien; eigentlich Ernest Carlton Brimmer) war ein US-amerikanischer Film- und Theaterschauspieler sowie Filmproduzent.

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- [en] Richard Dix

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[es] Richard Dix

Richard Dix (Saint Paul, Minnesota, 18 de julio de 1893–Los Ángeles, 20 de septiembre de 1949) fue un actor cinematográfico estadounidense, iniciado en la época del cine mudo.

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[ru] Ричард Дикс

Ричард Дикс (англ. Richard Dix, настоящее имя — Эрнст Карлтон Бриммер; 18 июля 1893, Сент-Пол — 20 сентября 1949, Лос-Анджелес) — американский киноактёр, номинант на премию «Оскар». Обладатель именной звезды на Голливудской «Аллее славы»[1].

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