movement in the ABC miniseries Amerika (1987), set in post-Soviet invasion Nebraska. In 1978 Dixon served as Chairman of the Expansion Arts Advisory Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts. After his career as an actor and director, Dixon became owner-operator of radio station KONI (FM) on Maui. In 2001, he left Hawaii for health reasons and sold the radio station in 2002. Personal life In 1954, the same year Dixon graduated from North Carolina Central University, he married theater student Berlie Ray. The couple had four children: sons Ivan IV, N'Gai Christopher, and Alan Kimara Dixon; and daughter Doris Nomathande Dixon. Death Ivan Dixon died on March 16, 2008, aged 76, at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, of complications from kidney failure. He was predeceased by sons Ivan Dixon IV and N'Gai Christopher Dixon. His widow Berlie Ray Dixon, born on April 5, 1930, in Badin, North Carolina, died on February 9, 2019, in Charlotte, at age 88. Filmography Awards and honors National Black Theatre Award Paul Robeson Pioneer Award, Black American Cinema Society References External links 1931 births 2008 deaths 20th-century American male actors African-American male actors American male film actors African-American film directors African-American television directors American civil rights activists Film directors from New York City American film producers American male stage actors American male television actors American television directors Deaths from kidney failure Male actors from New York City North Carolina Central University alumni 20th-century African-American people 21st-century African-American people