Ealie W. Dixon, Acting - KorPlix:Korean Person Archives

Ealie W. Dixon
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1957-02-01,Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Ealie Dixon was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, the third largest city in Louisiana, 326 miles north of New Orleans. The son of Leonard Dixon, a truck driver, and Ophelia Dixon, a teacher's aid. Ealie attended Booker T. Washington High School where he excelled in music studying piano, guitar and musical arranging. After graduating from Booker T. Washington, he entered a summer music program at Berklee Music College in Boston Massachusetts. Ealie Dixon was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, the third largest city in Louisiana, 326 miles north of New Orleans. The son of Leonard Dixon, a truck driver, and Ophelia Dixon, a teacher's aid. Ealie attended Booker T. Washington High School where he excelled in music studying piano, guitar and musical arranging. After graduating from Booker T. Washington, he entered a summer music program at Berklee Music College in Boston Massachusetts. After finishing the summer music program at Berklee, he attended a Marvin Gaye concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City where he slipped backstage and met Marvin Gaye's manager, Stephen Hill who was so impressed with Ealie's professionalism that he offered Ealie a job working with Marvin Gaye's organization. He moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 1975 where he got his first experience in the music industry. Being a music major, he was able to get an inside look at Marvin Gaye's creative process and even participating in jam sessions during Marvin Gaye's stardom in 1975 to 1976. After 1976, he left Marvin Gaye's organization to set out on his own. Soon after being on his own, he became acquainted with people in the TV and film industry. Hanging with this crowd eventually led to the introduction of acting and writing of screenplays He decided to study acting a few years before trying to start an acting career. He studied with some small unknown acting instructors but gradually worked his way up to studying with the great Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler's protégé, Arthur Mendoza. After a few years of schooling and appearing in local theatre productions and acting in student films, he landed his first agent which led to him booking a White Castle and Ford national commercial along with a series of TV projects. He then decided to further his knowledge of the industry by studying screenwriting for the next 12 years which produced the completion of his first 4 screenplays. Currently Ealie has a thriving, acting, and writing career in the city of Los Angeles.

Filmography

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We're All Gonna Die
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Encuentro Americano
2025-10-25

The Real Murders of Atlanta
2022-01-16