[1] Dixon also later studied drama at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio, followed by the American Theatre Wing after returning to New York City.

[citation needed] On September 25, 1962, Dixon portrayed Jamie Davis, a livery stable groom, in the episode "Among the Missing" of NBC's Laramie western series.

This was followed in 1963 when he played the role of John Brooks, alias Caleb Stone IV, in the episode "The Case of the Nebulous Nephew", in which his character switched names with a white man.

In his best-known role, Dixon appeared as prisoner of war Staff Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe in the ensemble cast of the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes.

Kenneth Washington replaced Dixon for the last year of the show's run, playing a different character who filled a similar role.

[1] From 1970 to 1993, Dixon worked primarily as a television director on such series and TV movies as The Waltons, The Rockford Files,[4] The Bionic Woman, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Magnum, P.I.,[4] and The A-Team.

The New York Times wrote in 2008: Although The Spook caused controversy and with suppression facilitated by the F.B.I., was soon pulled from theaters, it later gained cult status as a bootleg video and in 2004 was released on DVD.

[9] Dixon died on March 16, 2008, aged 76, at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, of complications from kidney failure.

[9] His widow Berlie Ray Dixon, born on April 5, 1930, in Badin, North Carolina, died on February 9, 2019, in Charlotte, at age 88.