1. Richard Dix was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead role in the Best Picture-winning epic Cimarron.
16 Facts About Richard Dix
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Richard Dix was born Ernst Carlton Brimmer on July 18,1893, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Richard Dix received his schooling there, intending to become a surgeon to please his father.
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Richard Dix's obvious acting talent in his school dramatic club led him to leading roles in most of the school plays.
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Richard Dix's professional start was with a local stock company, and this led to similar work in New York City.
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Richard Dix then went to Los Angeles and became leading man for the Morosco Stock Company.
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Richard Dix began his Hollywood film career in dramas and romantic comedies.
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Richard Dix starred in the 1935 British futuristic film The Tunnel, as well as The Great Jasper and Blind Alibi in the late 1930s.
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Richard Dix starred as the homicidal Captain Stone in the Val Lewton production of The Ghost Ship.
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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.
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Richard Dix appeared in a variety of characterizations, some sympathetic, others hard-boiled, but always victims of fate and circumstances conspiring against him.
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Richard Dix retired from acting after the seventh of these films, The Thirteenth Hour.
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Richard Dix had a collection of thousands of smoking pipes, and at one time had 36 Scotties and English setters.
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Richard Dix supported Thomas Dewey in the 1944 United States presidential election.
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Richard Dix died eight days later at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, and is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Richard Dix has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Motion Pictures section at 1610 Vine Street.