John Dixon

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

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 Films 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.

He had been writing a script about the Anzacs of World War I which he developed with Geoff Burrowes. This led to them making a number of films and mini-series together.

Dixon was a friend of Phillip Adams who described him as such: