John Dixon

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John Dixon (cricketer, born 1954)

John Henry Dixon (born 3 March 1954) is a former English cricketer active from 1973 to 1988 who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Bournemouth. He appeared in 16 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium-fast pace. He scored 77 runs with a highest score of 13* and held six catches. He took 21 wickets with a best analysis of five for 44.

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John Dixon (filmmaker)

John Dixon (died 1999) was an Australian screenwriter and director best known for his association with Geoff Burrowes.

Career

Dixon served in the Australian army as a translator with the occupying forces in Japan. He returned to Melbourne and obtained an Arts Degree at Melbourne University then travelled to London, where he trained as a film editor and worked for Technicolour and Elstree Studios. He moved back to Australia and worked for Channel 7 as a TV director on a number of shows. He started World of Sport with Ron Casey directing the first two hundred episodes. He moved to Channel Nine and directed a series of documentaries.

In 1963, he was one of the first Westerners allowed to film inside communist China, and made a documentary Red China.

Dixon formed Cambridge Flims with some colleagues and made commercials for a number of companies. In 1967 he directed the TV commercial for VB Bitter which used a voice over by John Meillon and theme song from The Magnificent Seven which went on to become one of the longest running ads on Australian TV. He was also involved in the establishment of the Sunbury Pop Festival.