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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Ivan Dixon, best known for his role as Staff Sgt. James Kinchloe on the '60s television classic, "Hogan Heroes," has died. He was 76. His daughter said Dixon died Sunday at a hospital in Charlotte after a hemorrhage and of complications from kidney failure. In addition to acting, Dixon directed hundreds of episodes of television shows, including "The Waltons," "The Rockford Files," "Magnum, P.I." and "In the Heat of the Night." Dixon's acting credits predate "Hogan Heroes." He was a stunt double for Sidney Poitier in the 1958 movie "The Defiant Ones." Poitier said in a statement...

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...