Victor Adamson

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).

The 1924 film Ace of Cactus Range with Adamson directing as Denver Dixon and George Kesterson as Art Mix