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Wilcoxon was an amateur painter and photographer, whose work was exhibited on at least one occasion in London. He was also "an avid antique collector and accomplished flier." With his wife Joan Woodbury, he had three daughters: Wendy Joan, Heather Ann and Cecilia Dawn.
A few years before he died, Henry had an emotional meeting with his niece Valerie (born 1933), the English daughter of his brother Owen with Dorothy Drew (sister of architect Jane Drew). Up until then he did not know that his brother, killed at the Dunkirk evacuation, had any children.
In The Devil Thumbs a Ride and Other Movies (New York: Grove Press, 1988), Barry Gifford, citing personal experience of an attempted pickup by the actor, suggests that Wilcoxon was bisexual.
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