Hotmail
Bill Bixby
:
Overview
 Avg.User Rating:  15 RatingsRate this person:
Director, Actor Born: January 22, 1934 in San Francisco, CA Death: November 21, 1993 in Century City, CA Biography: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... Full Biography
| ||||||||||||
| advertisement |
Movie data provided by:
