Albert Victor Adamson (January 4, 1890 – November 9, 1972) was a New Zealand director, producer, screenwriter, and actor most famous for directing and starring in very-low-budget westerns in 1920s and 1930s.

Director Richard L. Bare, who as a young man had invested in one of Adamson's productions, commented: "Fox and Mix would prevail in a court of law.

So when Dixon one day got a restraining order from the Los Angeles court preventing him from using the name Art Mix, he got a little worried himself.

"[3] Adamson, however, gave up starring in his own films -- as Bare explained, "He had been having a problem with his new set of teeth, and sometimes they would click and move around in his mouth while the camera was turning."

He produced a series of grade-Z westerns featuring silent-film cowboy stars Buffalo Bill, Jr., Wally Wales and Buddy Roosevelt.

He would then take his show on the road, according to Bare: "Denver's scheme was to get some cash out of the budget, make a picture that he knew probably would never be released, then load up his Lincoln with the film and some posters and head for the midwest.

He always hit every small-town theater that he could book, where he sells himself, Art Mix, as a rope act, tossing in the picture as a bonus.

After a career hiatus, he briefly returned to filmmaking when he co-produced two films with his son Al Adamson, Half Way to Hell (1960) and Two Tickets to Terror (1963).