For a year, he worked with the National Academy of Theater Arts in New York City.

[1] He later appeared in Forbidden Planet (1956), Forty Guns (1957), and other films including a lead role in Maury Dexter's Air Patrol.

His last role was a doomed agent in Roger Moore's first James Bond Feature, Live And Let Die, being killed before the opening credits during a marching New Orleans funeral that turns out to be his own.

[5] Dix owned a home near Demuth Park in Palm Springs, California.

[citation needed] In 1961, Dix played the part of Jamie, a lieutenant in the US Cavalry on the television program Gunsmoke and later that same year as “Spotted Wolf”, a love torn Indian hunted by the Cavalry in the S7E10 “Indian Ford”.