David Dixon

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David Dixon (October 28, 1947) is an English actor and screenwriter. He was born in the Nightingale Maternity Home, Derby, near his father's shop in 94 London Road and brought up there before the family moved to 14 St.James's Street, Nottingham in 1959.

Dixon's most notable role was in the 1981 BBC TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in which he starred as Ford Prefect. He would later rejoin the Hitchhiker's Guide by lending his voice to the "Ecological Man" and the "Zirzla Leader" in Fit the Twentieth of the Radio Series, while Geoffrey McGivern, who had originally played the character on radio, returned to the role of Ford.

[edit] Filmography

• Original Sin (1996) (TV) - Dr Wardle
• Circles of Deceit: Dark Secret (1995) (TV) - DI Ransome
• Cold Warrior (1984) (miniseries)
• The Missionary (1982) - Young Man
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) (miniseries) - Ford Prefect
• The Tempest (1980) (TV) - Ariel
• A Family Affair (1979) (miniseries) - Clifford
• A Horseman Riding By (1978) (miniseries) - Keith Horsey
• Lillie (1978) (miniseries) - Prince Leopold
• The Legend of Robin Hood (1975) (miniseries) - Prince John
• Escort Girls (1974) - Hugh Lloyd
• A Family at War (1970) (TV series) - Robert Ashton
• Jumping Bean Bag (1976) (BBC TV Play For Today) - Ozymandias Freemantle

[edit] External links

• The Dixionary, David Dixon fanpage
• David Dixon at the Internet Movie Database