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Bill Bixby
American actor and director (1934–1993)
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Bixby as The Magician, 1973 | |
| Born | Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III (1934-01-22)January 22, 1934 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | November 21, 1993(1993-11-21) (aged 59) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Years active | 1959–1993 |
| Television | My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Magician, The Incredible Hulk |
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| Children | 1 |
Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993)[1] was an American actor and television director. His career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television serie
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Bill Bixby
Who's Bill Bixby?
Wilfred Bailey Bixby (1934 - 1993) was an American actor/director/producer, most known for his kind and compassionate portrayal of the character David Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk.
Other well-known performances of his consist of The Magician, My Favorite Martian, and The Courtship of Eddie's Father.
What Bill Bixby meant to me.
He's more than just one of my favorite actors. And while I didn't personally know him nor did I even meet him, he had quite an impact on me. I'm apart of a generation of kids who grew up on television, a generation in which neglectful and divorced parents was the norm. And not as common, but not completely rare either, even though my early childhood was mostly idyllic, my parents were abusive throughout different points in my life, both mentally and physically at times. Sometimes they were drunk or high. Sometimes they were just wallowing in their own misery.
Without needing to go into detail, it's safe to say that my parents were not role models, people to learn life lessons or morals from, except in the
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Actor Bill Bixby was fond of saying, "My shows are the kind children can watch with their parents without embarrassment. And parents can watch with their children without embarrassment."
A sixth-generation Californian, Wilfred Bailey Bixby was born in San Francisco on January 22, 1934. An only child, he graduated from Lowell High School where he participated in debate clubs. He went on to attend San Francisco City College and then The University of California at Berkeley, majoring in speech and philosophy with intent on a career in law. But after three summers of organizing shows at a resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he decided to try to develop a career in acting. So after a two-year stint in the Marine Air Corps, and giving himself five years to see if his plan would succeed, he moved to Los Angeles.
He got a job at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, first as a desk clerk and then as a lifeguard and pool manager. It was then that a Detroit advertising executive asked if he was interested in working as a model in auto ads and Bill took the offer. Relocating to Detroit for a year, B
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