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George Dickerson is a Actor born on 25 july 1933

George Dickerson

George Dickerson
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Birth name George Graf Dickerson, Jr.
Birth 25 july 1933
Death 10 january 2015 (at 81 years)

George Dickerson (July 25, 1933 – January 10, 2015) was an American actor, writer, and poet.

Biography

Dickerson was born July 25, 1933, in Topeka, Kansas, to George Graf Dickerson, a lawyer, and Elizabeth Dickerson (née Naumann), parents he did not have a good relationship with. He had one brother, five years his junior. As a child, his family lived in Michigan, the South Side of Chicago, Queens, New York, and Virginia. From 1965, he lived in the same apartment in Manhattan, one once rented by critic James Agee, whom Dickerson claims to have spiritual contact with.

Dickerson served in the U.S. Army from December 1953 to the fall of 1954. He graduated from Yale University in 1955, after studying with novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, advocates of New Criticism. After working a teaching job in Vermont, Dickerson read his poems at venues with Beatnik poets such as Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, and Ted Joans. His poetry was praised by novelist Norman Mailer.

He maintained long term friendships with many well-known artists, including songwriter Leonard Cohen, actor Richard Widmark, playwright Arthur Miller, actor Roscoe Lee Browne, opera soprano Leontyne Price, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sister, Norma Ellis, John Farrar, and ex-Poet Laureate Mark Strand.

In the 1970s, after a decade in the literary world, Dickerson worked as Press Secretary and speech writer for U.S. Congressman Robert Steele (R- Connecticut), and Head of Press and Publications for UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) at its headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, where he experienced the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 and 1976.

Dickerson married four times and had five children: two daughters by his first wife, a son by his third wife, a daughter by his fourth wife, and a son born out of wedlock with a Finnish journalist; Finnish film director Dome Karukoski. He was romantically involved with 1960s supermodel Veruschka.

Dickerson spoke five languages: English, French, German, Arabic, and Italian. While not religious, he claims a belief in God. He suffers from Crohn's Disease.

Dickerson was a Democrat, and only once voted Republican, for former New York City mayor John V. Lindsay. Of his politics, Dickerson said, 'I wasn’t involved in the Civil Rights movement. That is a failure on my part. I wasn’t really political until I started writing about world affairs for Time. I didn’t see my Black friends as black and they sensed that, so the subject didn’t come up between us, as hard as that may be to believe. We talked about what close friends talk about when there are no issues between them…struggles with their writing, with their wives…."

Dickerson died after a long illness in early 2015, surrounded by his the people closest to him. His death was made public by his son Dome via Facebook on January 13, 2015.

Usually with

Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen
(1 films)
Ted White
Ted White
(2 films)
James Foley
James Foley
(1 films)
Tom Holland
Tom Holland
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of George Dickerson (16 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
1998The Broken GiantActorThomas Smith
1997Ties to RachelActorBucyrus
1995As Good as DeadActorMr. Edgar Warfield
1991Son of the Morning StarActorGen. Sherman
1990Death WarrantActorTom Vogler
1990After Dark, My SweetActorDoc Goldman
1987Death Wish 4: The CrackdownActorDetective Reiner
1986Blue VelvetActorDetective Williams
1986No MercyActorReblue
1983Psycho IIActorCounty Sheriff
1983National Lampoon's Movie MadnessActorMore Lecherous Dairy President ("Success Wanters")
1983Space RaidersActorTracton
1983The Star ChamberActorGeorge Tillis
1982Jinxed!ActorTahoe Casino Manager
1981Cutter's WayActorMortician
1981Murder in TexasActorWoody