Ernst Carlton Brimmer, known professionally as Richard Dix, was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film. His standard on-screen image was that of the rug
Dix in 1923
Gertrude Astor, Colleen Moore and Dix filming The Wall Flower in 1922
Redskin in 1929 was Dix's last silent film
Dix was deep into B films by 1943; the budget for The Ghost Ship was a mere $150,000.
The Kansan is a 1943 Western film directed by George Archainbaud. The film is also known as Wagon Wheels in the United Kingdom.
Richard Dix
…as The Great Jasper and Blind Alibi in the late 1930s. Dix also starred as the homicidal Captain Stone in the Val Lewton production of The Ghost Ship. The Kansan in 1943 was another B picture, and Dix's last Western In 1941, Dix played Wild Bill Hickok in Badlands of Dakota and portrayed Wyatt Earp the following…
Poster of the movie The Kansan
Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, and Victor Jory