Bill Bixby
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Prior to his first TV appearance on a 1961 episode of Dobie Gillis, Bill Bixby had been a college student (he dropped out of UC Berkeley in his senior year), a lifeguard, a male model, and a regional stock-company actor. Bixby went on to play small roles in films like Lonely Are the Brave and Irma La Douce, and was featured in the Broadway comedy Under the Yum Yum Tree. In 1963, he graduated to TV stardom with the role of Tim O'Hara on the popular sci-fi sitcom My Favorite Martian. Anxious to change his "wholesome" image after Martian ended its three-year run in 1966, Bixby accepted a small but flashy role as a cowardly villain in the big-screen Western Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966). Like it or not, however, Bixby's future lay in sympathetic parts on episodic television. In each of his subsequent starring series -- The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969-1972), The Magician (1973), The Incredible Hulk (1978-1982), True Confessions (1984), and Goodnight Beantown (1983) -- Bixby frequently did double-duty as actor and director. He also directed such made-for-TV movies as Barbary Coast (1974), Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (1991), and the Roseanne/Tom Arnold vehicle The Woman Who Loved Elvis (1993). Long one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, Bixby finally took the marital plunge with actress Brenda Benet; the union ended tragically when Benet, distraught over the death of her son, Christopher, committed suicide. Bixby's second wife was Judith Kliban, daughter of magazine cartoonist B. Kliban. At the time of his death from prostate cancer, Bill Bixby was principal director of the TV series Blossom.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Woman Who Loved Elvis |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Diagnosis Murder |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Baby of the Bride |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Marilyn Files |
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— | 1991 |
20% | The Death of the Incredible Hulk |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | The Trial of the Incredible Hulk |
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— | 1989 |
50% | The Incredible Hulk Returns |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Sin of Innocence (Two Young People) |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | W*A*L*T*E*R (Walter) |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Murder Is Easy |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | The Return of the Incredible Hulk |
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— | 1977 |
57% | The Incredible Hulk |
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— | 1977 |
81% | The Kentucky Fried Movie |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Black Market Baby |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Fantasy Island |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Invasion of Johnson County |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Great Houdini |
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— | 1976 |
56% | The Apple Dumpling Gang |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Steambath |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Speedway |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! |
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— | 1967 |
20% | Clambake |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Ride Beyond Vengeance |
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— | 1966 |
17% | Under the Yum Yum Tree |
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— | 1963 |
76% | Irma La Douce |
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— | 1963 |
93% | Lonely are the Brave |
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— | 1962 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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91% |
The Magicians
2016-2019
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No Score Yet |
Blossom
1991-1995
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No Score Yet |
Diagnosis Murder
1993-2001
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10% |
Ferris Bueller
1990-1991
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No Score Yet |
Sledge Hammer!
1986-1988
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No Score Yet |
The Incredible Hulk
1978-1982
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No Score Yet |
Charlie's Angels
1976-1981
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No Score Yet |
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-1977
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Night Gallery
1970-1973
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No Score Yet |
It Takes a Thief
1968-1970
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No Score Yet |
My Favorite Martian
1963-1966
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-1968
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Quotes from Bill Bixby's Characters
Dr. David Bruce Banner: | Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. |