From 1975 to 2004 Dixon was an award winning advertising executive, running agencies like Wells, Rich, Greene and The William Esty Company, and leading such top tier clients such as Procter & Gamble, IBM, ESPN, Ralston-Purina, MCI and many more. As an entrepreneur, Dixon founded his own ad agency and a strategic planning company, working on projects for AT&T, Amaco, and Sony.

Dixon studied at HB Studios and lives in NYC. He originally performed as a member of The Villanova Theater Group, on local New York City stages and in TV commercials. Dixon was Executive Producer of Lodge Kerrigan's first award-winning feature clean, shaven. He also is a co-producer of The Plagiarist, by James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir and an Executive Producer of Otherland, by Alex Le Bas and Alex Brisker. Throughout his acting career, Dixon has appeared in a variety of features and shorts, recently performing in Mr. Wilkin's short film, Mediums (Whitney Biennial, New York, and The Tate Modern, London) as well as Mr. Wilkin's award winning, controversial radio play, The Republic. Currently, Dixon's work can be found on iTunes and Amazon Prime in the award winning, EVOL, Michael Perrone's debut feature, and in the award-winning writer/director Roger Hayn's first feature, Congratulations Debby which premiered internationally and streams on memory.is/debby. He can also be seen on the festival circuit in Gleb Osatinski's award winning short, Father, Shukai Wang’s 7045 Steps, and Brian Tracey’s Down and Away. Dixon appears as Simon, in European director Sandeep Kumar's internationally award winning comedic short, Another Day in Manhattan, having premiered in Vienna, Austria and winning Dixon two Best Actor Awards. (The Art is Alive Film Festival and The Indo-French International Film Festival) He is currently in Michael Perrone's second feature, The Man Behind the Camera, (Co-starring as Walter Hughes) set for international release early 2022. In addition, Dixon and Sandeep Kumar are collaborating on a feature entitled, Chasing William, about an aging man's disturbingly misguided search for happiness. Dixon is also the author of the experimental memoir, There's a Person in Here, under the pseudonym, James Patrick.

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