16 Facts About Richard Dix

Richard Dix was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead role in the Best Picture-winning epic Cimarron.

Richard Dix was educated there and, to please his father, studied to be a surgeon.

Richard Dix's obvious acting talent in his school dramatic club led him to leading roles in most of the school plays.

Richard Dix's professional start was with a local stock company, and this led to similar work in New York City.

Richard Dix then went to Los Angeles and became leading man for the Morosco Stock Company.

Richard Dix 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.

Richard Dix starred in The Great Jasper and Blind Alibi in the late 1930s.

Richard Dix starred as the homicidal Captain Stone in the Val Lewton production of The Ghost Ship, directed by Mark Robson.

In 1941, Richard 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.

Richard Dix appeared in a variety of characterizations, some sympathetic, others hard-boiled, but always victims of fate and circumstances conspiring against him.

Richard Dix retired from acting after the seventh of these films, The Thirteenth Hour.

Richard Dix had a collection of thousands of pipes, and a "collection" of 36 dogs, "Scotties and English setters".

Richard Dix married his first wife, Winifred Coe, on October 20,1931.

Richard Dix married his second wife, Virginia Webster, on June 29,1934.

Richard Dix supported Thomas Dewey in the 1944 United States presidential election.

Richard Dix has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Motion Pictures section at 1610 Vine Street.