Posted on 03/18/2008 7:19:13 PM PDT by lunarbicep
Actor, director and producer Ivan Dixon, best known for his role as Kinchloe in the television series "Hogan's Heroes," has died in Charlotte at the age of 76.
Dixon died Sunday at a Charlotte hospital after suffering a hemorrhage, said Whitney Stauffer of Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles.
Actor Sidney Poitier said the two men became friends after Dixon was his stunt double in the 1958 movie, "The Defiant Ones."
"As an actor, you had to be careful," Poitier said through Stauffer. "He was quite likely to walk off with the scene. And I was very careful."
Dixon began his acting career on Broadway in plays that included "The Cave Dwellers" and "A Raisin in the Sun." On film, he appeared in "Something of Value," "A Raisin in the Sun," "A Patch of Blue," "Nothing But a Man" and the cult favorite, "Car Wash."
But he was probably best known for the role of U.S. Staff Sgt. James Kinchloe on "Hogan's Heroes." Kinchloe, who's in charge of electronic communications, can mimic German officers on the radio or phone.
Dixon earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in the CBS Playhouse special, "The Final War of Olly Winter."
In addition to acting on television, he also directed hundreds of episodic shows, including "The Waltons," "The Rockford Files," "Magnum P.I." and "Heat of the Night."
Born April 6, 1931, in New York City, Dixon graduated in 1954 from North Carolina Central University in Durham.
Dixon's awards include four NAACP Image Awards, National Black Theatre Award and the Paul Robeson Pioneer Award from the Black American Cinema Society. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild of America, and the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.
Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Berlie Dixon; son, Alan Kimara Dixon and daughter, Doris Nomathande Dixon. Two sons, Ivan Nathaniel Dixon IV and N'Gai Christopher Dixon, are deceased.
At Dixon's request, Stauffer said no memorial is planned.
I wonder who’s still alive from that show. Didn’t Klink die a few years ago?
Kinchloe was the radio man for Hogan.
G’night, “Kinch.”
I’ll have to watch some of my Hogan’s Heroes DVDs tonight in his memory.
One of the best shows ever on the air. RIP.
Sad. I watched the show as a kid often.
My father knew a man who actually was in a German POW camp.
He absolutely loved the show, despite it’s comedy and non-serious approach.
I sink maybe ve need to say a prayer
While working in the prison yard with some chains, Kinch says "I grow up in Detroit and have to come all the way to Germany to work in a chain gang."
From what I understand is that the guy who played Klink was Jewish.. Talk about ironies..
I liked this part best:
“Survivors include his wife of 53 years...”
Highly admirable.
Ought to emulated by....ummm...others...
Did he win any awards from Dixon’s awards from the NAAWP Image Awards, National White Theatre Award and the Paul White Guy Pioneer Award from the White American Cinema Society? Was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild of America, and the White Filmmakers Hall of Fame?
Of course not. That would scare the pants off Granny Obama/
according to whosaliveandwhosdead , Robert Clary and Richard Dawson are still living
RIP. The memories...
RIP.
Whats the point of that?????
I just don't understand the whole black thing.
They want to be equal, they want to be just regular American citizens "like everyone else", and they want a color-blind society.
So they set up black this and black that, GUARANTEEING they will be looked at as different and other.
I went to high school in a cow town in California. Mostly whites, some blacks, some Mexicans, very few Asians.
The whole race thing was never an issue from what I could see. I don't remember racial fights, racial comments. The jocks would all hang together - white, black, and Mexican.
I feel like the whole race sensitivity was thrust on me long after childhood. I didn't care about one's color at that time. Now I look at someone black and I'm on guard. Why? I'm not sure but it wasn't like that growing up with them.
And for that I hate the liberals who have created such a tinderbox of this country.
RIP “Kinch”, you were the cool cat.
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