Robert Warren Brimmer (May 8, 1935 – August 6, 2018), known professionally as Robert Dix, was an American film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1974.
Biographic data
Dix was born in
Los Angeles
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, California, the son of actor
Richard Dix
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. As a teenager, he left home after his mother remarried.
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Dix initially was billed as Bob Brimmer, using his legal name. For a year, he worked with the National Academy of Theater Arts in New York City. Following that experience, he gained a two-year contract with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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.
[ He later appeared in '']Forbidden Planet
''Forbidden Planet'' is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irvi ...
'' (1956), ''Forty Guns
''Forty Guns'' is a 1957 American Western film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope and released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan and Gene Barry.
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'' (1957), and other films including a lead role in Maury Dexter's Air Patrol.[ In the 1960's he appeared in a string of b-movies by Al Adamson including '' Hell's Bloody Devils'', '']Satan's Sadists
''Satan's Sadists'' is a 1969 American outlaw biker film directed by Al Adamson and starring Russ Tamblyn.
Plot
The plot centers around an outlaw motorcycle gang called the "Satans", who roam the deserts of the American Southwest. The gang's leade ...
'', '' Blood of Dracula's Castle'', and '' Five Bloody Graves''. 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.
On May 31, 1956, Dix married actress Janet Lake in Las Vegas. They divorced in 1959. Later he was married to Anna May Slaughter, a nightclub singer, and Darlene Lucht. Dix owned a home near Demuth Park in Palm Springs, California. He died of respiratory failure at a hospital in Tucson, Arizona, at age 83.
Television appearances
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”.
Filmography
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1935 births
2018 deaths
20th-century American male actors
Deaths from respiratory failure
Actors from Palm Springs, California