Interesting what you find when looking at the credits on old shows

**AcWxRadar** · 12-31-2009 03:11 PM

I happened to be typing another post in the AZBox area, looked up at my TV and AZBox to see if my recording of The Rockford Files was underway, as the show was just starting.

I happened to notice that it showed: DIRECTED BY.... Ivan Dixon

I am not always good with names, but I am certain that Ivan Dixon was the prisoner Kinchloe on Hogan's Heros. I looked it up and sure enough, he was a producer as well as an actor!

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**Bill_KY** · 12-31-2009 03:31 PM

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. At that time Mr. Dixon told The Times that the movie had tried only to depict black anger, not to suggest armed revolt as a solution.
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movement in the controversial 1987
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After his career as an actor and director, Dixon was the owner-operator of radio station
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. In 2001, he left the islands for health reasons and sold the radio station in 2002.
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Ivan Dixon died on March 16, 2008, aged 76, at
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**Anole** · 12-31-2009 06:44 PM

I watch Hogan's Heroes every day, and recognized the name immediately.
Always wondered why he didn't stay to the end of that series, and where he went aftewards.
Thanks for the update.

**Corrado** · 01-04-2010 11:27 AM

Here's a couple more...

I was surprised to notice that Howard Morris that played Ernest T. Bass, on the Andy Griffith Show also directed some of the episodes.

Also Jerry Paris, that played the next door neighbor on the Dick VanDyke Show, directed many episodes of Happy Days.

**concord** · 01-05-2010 12:14 PM

Use to watch Bob Ross painting on PBS and one day I was watching Andy Griffith Show, and noticed that the background drawing look alot like Ross's work...sure enough, his name scrolled by during the credits.

**skysurfer** · 01-06-2010 03:52 AM

what am I missing? a lot of people act and direct (or are producers/exec producers) episodes of shows nowdays. I don't see why the old days/shows seem surprising in that sense unless it's just another thing way before my time.

**Larry1** · 02-09-2010 04:08 PM

I just noticed today that Bonita Granville Wrather who played in the Nancy Drew movies Produced Lassie. Stranger, she was afraid of dogs.

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**Crocodile Locke** · 02-09-2010 10:20 PM

I used to work at a golf course that Joe Santos (Sgt. Dennis Becker) from the Rockford Files frequented. Unfortunately, the man is a (insert your favorite obscenity), so every time I see the Rockford Files I can't help but think of that guy. Kinda' ruined the show for me, which is a shame, since I think James Garner is great.

Every once in awhile I'll stop and watch Bob Ross. He had to be one of the calmest individuals I have ever seen. Kinda' amusing when he showed videos of him and his pet squirrel.

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