- Third wife Velda May Paulsen, an ex-model, was arrested in January of 1958 when she attacked Nixon with a steak knife following a domestic argument. She was killed later that year in a terrible explosion at their apartment caused by a lit cigarette and a gas leak.
- Was set to appear in wife Marie Wilson's movie My Friend Irma Goes West (1950), but instead she separated from him and he lost the role.
- Second husband of Marie Wilson.
- According to Laura Wagner in her article on Nixon for the winter 2014/2015 issue of "Films of the Golden Age", Republic Pictures reportedly was interested in making the actor a western star in the early 1940s. Unfortunately, Nixon was drafted into the US Army and it never happened.
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