Early life
He was natural Wilfred Bailey Bixby III inside San Francisco, California where Bixby's father, Wilfred Everett Bixby II, was the store clerk & his mother Jane was a department store creator. He attended San Francisco City College where he mostly majored in drama, & graduated from either a University of California, Berkeley, the same university his mother attend.

Within 1957, after he graduated from either college, he moved to Hollywood, that he experienced the string of odd jobs which involved that of the bellman, to the lifesaver organizing shows at the resort.

Film career
Around 1961, Bixby attend Detroit, Michigan, where he would do a stage play in the musical, “The Boyfriend,� at the Detroit Civic Theater. He so returned to Hollywood in which he manufactured his acting debut on an episode of The Numerous Loves of Dobie Gillis, & as a character actor, as his title became popular, he guest-starred inside numbers of more sitcoms & TV series like Ben Casey, A Twilight Zone, A Andy Griffith Indicate, Dr. Kildare, Hennessey, among numbers of others. He as well joined a cast on The Joey Bishop Show

Bixby so auditioned around 1963 for the freshly sitcom, My Favorite Martian, in CBS, in which he received the co-starring role when immature news newsman, Tim O’Hara, world health organization befriended an alien from either a second planet played per late Ray Walston. It run triplet seasons.

When a cancellation of Martian, he would so star within Little joe pack-professional moving-picture show: Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966), on which he played a evil, Johnsy Son Hood, to You’ve Got to Be Kidding (1967), and deuce of Elvis Presley’s movies, Clambake (1967), and Speedway (1968). Bixby turned down the role when Marlo Thomas’s boyfriend in That Girl and starred in Deuce more pilots.

Around 1969, Bixby starred when Tom Corbett in The Courting of Eddie’s Father for ABC. It was according to a popular 1963 movie, starring Glenn Ford and Ron Howard. His co-star on the indicate was Brandon Cruz. Bixby & Cruz spent period together two off and on a placed. Bixby directed occasionally of the episodes. He was Nominated for a Emmy Award for Lead Actor around a Comedy Series, however didn’t winside, & the as a consequence season, he won the Parents While forgoing Partners: Exemplary Service Award for his in 1972. Wooing run Trio seasons, & 78 episodes.

Around 1973, Bixby starred in The Magician, swimming Anthony Dorian, which lasted 1 year. As a game indicate panellist, he appeared mostly in Password and The Hollywood Squares. An accomplished amateur magician, Bixby besides hosted many specials in the mid-1970s that featured more amateur magicians.

Around late 1977, Bixby starred in the Deuce hour pilot pic known as A Intense Hulk. the producers convinced CBS to let it run into a each week science-fiction series beginning within early 1978. His character, Dr. David Banner, was the scientist/physician turned into the green monster played by Lou Ferrigno when he became angry. When working on the assail Hulk, his real-life marriage to Brenda Benet declined. It run 5 seasons. Bixby was disappointed that that his character was non cured of his problem in the final episode.

Bixby directed numerous television episodes & motion pictures, including 1 episode of Hulk & ii of a ternary TV movie revivals (which he produced), & before his demise was the lead director of the TV sitcom Blossom.

Private and later life
Bixby experienced been married Trey days, he married actress & a previous MISS America Pageant Brenda Benet in 1971, and two or three gave birth to Christopher, a few years late. A few were divorced within 1980. Within 1981, Bixby's six seaboy old son Christopher died suddenly fallowing an accident at a actor's Brentwood, Los Angeles, CA home. Shortly later on, Benet committed suicide.

Nine years late inside 1989, he met and fell dotty by using Laura Michaels, world health organization utilized to act behind-a-scenes on the placed of one of his Hulk moving picture. A few married a year late around 1990, in Hawaii. Unlike the marriage he got using Brenda, this was a short-passing marriage. Around early 1991, Bixby was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent treatment for a disease; his good battle against the cancer led to divorcement in the equivalent month. Around late 1992, friends introduced him to a free streaming-spirited creative person known as Judith Kliban, a widow woman of B. "Hap" Kliban, world health organization was likewise the cartoon creative person before his fight against cancer. He married Judith around late 1993, just Half a dozen weeks prior to he collapsed on the placed of Blossom.

Yet, Bixby's cancer recurred & wwhen diagnosed as inoperable. Six years when his final assignment, directing an episode of Blossom, Bill Bixby passed out of complications arising from either prostate gland cancer around Century City, California on November 21, 1993.