Death
Richard Dix retired from films in 1947. He first married Winifred Coe on October 20, 1931, had a daughter, Martha Mary Ellen, then divorced in 1933. He then married Virginia Webster on June 29, 1934. They had twin boys, Richard Jr. and Robert Dix and an adopted daughter, Sara Sue.
After suffering a serious heart attack on September 12, 1949 while on a train from New York to Los Angeles Dix died of at age 56, on September 20, 1949. He was survived by four children from his two marriages, but sadly in 1953 his son, Richard Dix, Jr., was killed in an accident at a logging camp near Ponderosa, California. Richard Dix, Sr. was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Richard Dix has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1610 Vine Street.
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