Lee Dixon

Lee Dixon (January 22, 1910 – January 8, 1953) was an American tap dancer, singer, musician and actor in the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in Hollywood musicals and other films, as well as on the Broadway stage.

Biography Dixon's parents were a dance team, and he first appeared on stage as an encore to their performance when he was 3 years old. He became established as a vaudeville performer before he was 17.

On Broadway, Dixon created Will Parker in Oklahoma! (He said that Rodgers and Hammerstein developed that role from watching him perform in a tryout of Heels Together. He said: "It seems they were thinking of adding a comedy character and had been hunting for an idea for one. When they saw me, they got an idea for building the part around a big, dumb cowboy who looked like me so they let me play him!" He toured the United States in 1941 in the stage show Oomph in Swingtime.

As a Dancer, Dixon preferred to work solo, although producers usually wanted him to dance with a female partner or with a group of chorus girls. He died on January 8, 1953, in New York City. Ready, Willing and Able (1937) as Pinky Blair The Singing Marine (1937) as Slim Baxter Varsity Show (1937) as Johnny 'Rubberlegs' Stevens “Ready, Willing, and Able” (1937) Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938, short) as Dixon Double or Nothing (1940, short) as Bill Double Rhythm (a.k.a. Musical Parade: Double Rhythm) (1946, short) as Happy Angel and the Badman (a.k.a. The Angel and the Outlaw) (1947) as Randy McCall, final film role

Broadway Oklahoma! (1943-1948) Higher and Higher (1940)