As early as 1943, Davis made it known that his long-range goals did not include acting, nor anything else remotely show-business-related. Dix is dark-haired, brown-eyed, has regular features which are thickly speckled with freckles, and is "14 going on 15." Most of the time he seems a bit too preoccupied to pay much attention to girls; possibly because his thoughts are concerned with the far-away places of the globe. His ambition, it appears, is to be a trained geographer-explorer, and his hobby is map making. In 1948, the then-21-year-old USC senior initially hinted at, then definitively announced his intention to pursue a diplomatic career. In November of that year, however, a recent addition to ''A Date With Judy's'' cast helped Davis—albeit only temporarily—make a somewhat less radical career detour: Dix Davis, who plays Randolph, Judy's brother, And
Dick Crenna, Oogie Pringle, the teen-ager's boy friend, have now entered a new profession—song writing. They've just written a tune, "Tomorrow," which they hope to publish soon. Davis did the lyrics, Crenna the music. Following a six-month, 15,000-mile road trip through Europe in 1949, Davis was employed by the
State Department, serving as Assistant Press Officer in
Pakistan. He later earned an advanced degree in Political Science from the
University of California, Berkeley, prior to commencing his 33-year career with the
CIA's Office of Current Intelligence, delivering periodic briefings to every U.S. President from
Eisenhower through
Reagan. ==Personal life and death==