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Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker. Dixon wrote two best-selling novels, The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865–1900 (1902) and The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), that romanticized Southern white supremacy, endorsed the Lost ...
Mamie Van Doren at 13 years old. Van Doren was born Joan Lucille Olander on February 6, 1931 in Rowena, South Dakota, [14] nine miles out of Sioux Falls. [15] She is the daughter of Warner Carl Olander (1908–1992) and Lucille Harriet Bennett (1912–1995).
Thomas Dixon Jr. Madelyn Clare (November 18, 1894 [ citation needed ] – September 20, 1975; also known as Madelyn Klare or Madelyn Donovan) was an American actress during the early twentieth century.
Griffith agreed to pay Thomas Dixon $10,000 (equivalent to $304,186 in 2023) for the rights to his play The Clansman. Since he ran out of money and could afford only $2,500 of the original option, Griffith offered Dixon 25 percent interest in the picture. Dixon reluctantly agreed, and the unprecedented success of the film made him rich.
According to Dixon, after the lead actor was killed by a shark at Wrightsville Beach, off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina, Dixon took over the role and acted in the play for a year. [3] [5] However, biographer Anthony Slide disagrees with this story, suggesting the lead actor was dismissed at the end of that month. [6]
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Michael Rooker (born April 6, 1955) [1] is an American actor who mainly plays roles of antagonists. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), followed by its sequels Guardians of the ...
Charles John Hallahan (July 29, 1943 – November 25, 1997) [1] was an American film, television, and stage actor. His films include Going in Style and Nightwing (both 1979), The Thing (1982), Silkwood and Twilight Zone: The Movie (both 1983), Vision Quest and Pale Rider (both 1985), P.K. and the Kid (1987), Cast a Deadly Spell (1991), Executive Decision (1996), Dante's Peak (1997), and Mind ...