Biography
Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and for his starring roles in the 1964 independent drama Nothing But a Man and the 1967 television film The Final War of Olly Winter.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Percy & Thunder
1993
Director
A veteran trainer takes a promising fighter under his wing and lives his dreams through his protégé.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
1986
as Judge
An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to co...
Frederick Douglass: Slave and Statesman
1983
Director
This powerful one-person show stars William Marshall (Blacula) as abolitionist and trusted Lincoln advisor Frederick Douglass. Based on Douglass’ esse...
Love Is Not Enough
1978
Director
A black family leaves the ghetto of Detroit to look for a better life in Los Angeles.
Car Wash
1976
as Lonnie
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of e...
Fer-de-Lance
1974
as Joe Voit
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape stora...
Sty of the Blind Pig
1974
Director
After moving to Chicago from the South just as the civil rights movement takes hold, the members of an African American family led by steely matriarch...
Claudine
1974
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one c...
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
1973
Director, Producer
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.
Trouble Man
1972
Director
It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix thin...
Clay Pigeon
1971
as Simon
An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang.
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970
as Sgt. Jones
War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries t...
Where's Jack?
1969
as Naval Officer
Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.
Bing Crosby Color Christmas Show
1965
as Self/Kinchloe
Bing emcees and performs in this special Christmas show packed with guest stars including the cast of Hogan's Heroes, a comedy dog, and more.
A Patch of Blue
1965
as Mark Ralfe
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Nothing But a Man
1964
as Duff Anderson
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
To Trap a Spy
1964
as Jean Francis Soumarin
The men from U.N.C.L.E. are off to Africa to stop the assassination of a president.
Living Between Two Worlds
1963
Assistant Director
Harvey, an aspiring jazz musician, is pressured by his mother to enter the ministry. Torn between the two, his choice becomes more clear when his sist...
Too Late Blues
1961
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His perip...
Battle at Bloody Beach
1961
as Tiger Blair
This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western r...
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
as Asagai
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like a...
The Murder Men
1961
Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitation. Edited from TV series, Cain's Hundred
Porgy and Bess
1959
as Jim
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy...
Something of Value
1957
as Lathela - Loyal Gun-Bearer
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British co...