Biography

Dixon is an actor, producer, writer, and film advisor.

An award-winning SAG/AFTRA actor, Dixon was a member of The Villanova Theater Group and studied at HB Studios, in New York. He has performed in a variety of local and New York City stages, multiple TV commercials and has appeared in over thirty films.

He specializes in creating original characters facing inner turmoil and who are quite possibly at the end of their rope.

Like the disturbed and almost silent Michael in Roger Hayn's, Congratulations Debby, the impossibly talkative, Franklyn, in Tzvi Friedman's, The Loser Monologues, or the disgraced, alcoholic newspaper reporter Walter Hughes, in Mike Perrone's second feature, The Man Behind the Camera.

Drunks, abusers, Alzheimer's patients, depressed circus employees, failures, psychopaths, oppressive fathers, even an emotionally regretful talking frog. Dixon's characters usually face redemption, or destruction.

His work has appeared at Cannes, The Whitney Biennial in New York, The Tate Modern in London, and various festivals worldwide, and can be seen on Amazon Prime, Eternal Family TV, iTunes, Memory Channel, Mubi, The Criterion Channel, and Tubi.

He was Executive Producer for Lodge Kerrigan's groundbreaking first feature, clean, shaven and is currently Executive Producer for Resentment (Obraza), by award winning writer/director, Gleb Osatinski, screening at Berlinale, February, 2024.

Additional production credits include, Executive Producer for Michael Perrone's award winning second feature, The Man Behind the Camera; Co-producer of The Plagiarist, by award winning writers, James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir; and Executive Producer of Otherland, by Alex Brisker and Alexander Le Bas.

As a writer, he published an experimental memoir, under the pseudonym James Patrick, titled, There's a Person in Here, of which Kirkus Reviews remarked: "A moving account of the profound moments in one man's life."

Dixon is also creator/writer for two online ventures. He created The Perception Tapes, which offers downloads of fictionalized "lost/rediscovered" audio tapes that challenge a listener's belief system; and Feature Film Treatments, where he offers a variety of feature film treatments for option or purchase.

He also advises and contributes to the development of successful outcomes for film projects, including Viennese writer-director, Sandeep Kumar's Another...in Manhattan Series, and specializes in the areas of concept, plot development, character creation, and dialogue.

Dixon is a colon and pancreatic cancer survivor, was married twice, divorced once, the father of four children, (three survive) and a grandfather three times. He also survived thirty years in the advertising industry.

The recurring spirit/theme of all his work can best be described by his motto: "Don't let the bastards wear you down."

- IMDb mini biography by: J. Dixon Byrne