This is a screen cap of the brilliant actor and director Ivan Dixon (1931-2008) with non other than Cicely Tyson on Bill Cosby's groundbreaking television series "I Spy" in 1965.
Mr. Dixon played an awesome, cocky, politically-incorrect American athlete who defects to China, ends up regretting it and needs the help of Dr. Cosby's "Alexander Scott" and Robert Culp's "Kelly Robinson" to return home to the United States. Ms. Tyson portrays his fiance, an African princess named Princess Amara.
The Harlem-born Mr. Dixon, a 1954 graduate of North Carolina Central University with a degree in drama, is best known for his work on the classic television series "Hogan's Heroes" and the beautiful film "Nothing But A Man" with Abbey Lincoln in 1964. Mr. Dixon was also an accomplished director. His work as a director includes "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" in 1973 and several television series, including "The Waltons," "Magnum P.I." "Quincy" and "The Rockford Files."
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