George Dickerson
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George Dickerson (born 1933) is an American actor and poet.
Dickerson graduated from Yale University in 1955, studying with Robert Penn Warren. He then worked at Time magazine, publishing several short stories and beginning an uncompleted novel. In the early 1970s, he worked briefly on Capitol Hill and then took up a post working for the United Nations in Lebanon, where he experienced the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 and 1976. Dickerson later returned to the United States and became an actor, taking minor roles in the television series Hill Street Blues and playing Detective Williams in David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet.
In the 1990s, Dickerson began to write poetry. A book of his, Selected Poems, was published in 2000. He also founded the Rattapallax publishing company and journal.
Dickerson is the father of the Finnish film director Dome Karukoski.
