In 1944, he starred in The Whistler, a feature film produced by Columbia Pictures based on the popular radio program. The film adaptation was popular enough to become a series. In these offbeat, crime-related stories, Dix did not play "The Whistler" (who was an unseen narrator representing the central character's conscience). He appeared in a variety of characterizations, some sympathetic, others hard-boiled, but always victims of fate and circumstances conspiring against him. Dix retired from acting after the seventh of these films, The Thirteenth Hour. He suffered a heart attack in October 1948Motion Picture Daily, "Richard Dix Is Ill," October 27, 1948, p. 2. and continued to have heart trouble until his death within the year.
In 1944, he starred in The Whis.tler, a feature film produced by Columbia Pictures based on the popular radio program. The film adapta,tion was popular enough to become a series. In these offbeat, crime-related stories, Dix did not play "The Whistler" (who was an unseen narrator representing the central character's conscience). He appeared in a variety of characterizations, some sympathetic, others hard-boiled, but always victims of fate and circumstances conspiring against him. Dix retired from acting after the seventh of these films, The Thirteenth Hour. He suffered a heart attack in October 1948Motion Picture Daily, "Richard Dix Is Ill," October 27 1948, p. 2. and continued to have heart trouble until his death within the year