Robert Dix

Dix was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Richard Dix. As a teenager, he left home after his mother remarried.{{cite news |last1=Yager |first1=Elisabeth |title=Bob Dix, Actor Son Of Film Star, Pleased With His Latest Roles |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25396404/robert_dix/ |work=Freeport Journal-Standard |date=February 9, 1961 |location=Illinois, Freeport |page=7|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = November 14, 2018}} {{Open access}}

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. He later appeared in Forbidden Planet (1956), Forty Guns (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, 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.{{cite news |title=Actor Robert Dix Must Pay $20 Week to Child |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25404753/the_los_angeles_times/ |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=January 23, 1959 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=Part 3 - 1|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = November 14, 2018}} {{Open access}} Later he was married to Anna May Slaughter, a nightclub singer,{{cite news |title=Asks Divorce |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25405091/robert_dix/ |work=The Record |agency=Associated Press |date=March 26, 1963 |location=New Jersey, Hackensack |page=56|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = November 14, 2018}} {{Open access}} and Darlene Lucht.{{cite news |last1=Sone |first1=Tamara H. |title=Demuth Park a friendly haven in Palm Springs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25405293/the_desert_sun/ |work=The Desert Sun |date=January 19, 2012 |location= Palm Springs, California |page=My Desert 3|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = November 14, 2018}} {{Open access}} Dix owned a home near Demuth Park in Palm Springs, California.{{cite book|last1=Meeks|first1=Eric G.|title=The Best Guide Ever to Palm Springs Celebrity Homes|date=2014|orig-year=2012|publisher=Horatio Limburger Oglethorpe|isbn=978-1479328598|pages=241–43}} He died of respiratory failure at a hospital in Tucson, Arizona, at age 83.{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Robert Dix, Actor in 'Forbidden Planet' and 'Forty Guns,' Dies at 83 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-dix-dead-forbidden-planet-forty-guns-actor-son-richard-dix-dies-at-83-1132829 |accessdate=15 November 2018 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=August 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115034819/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-dix-dead-forbidden-planet-forty-guns-actor-son-richard-dix-dies-at-83-1132829 |archivedate=15 November 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/hollywood/news/actor-robert-dix-dead-at-83/articleshow/65324387.cms|title=Actor Robert Dix passes away at 83 |newspaper=Times of India|publisher=}} He was buried at the Russellville–Dragoon Cemetery in Cochise County, Arizona.{{Citation needed |date=April 2021}}

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”.

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