Unlike the previous movies that Bixby starred in, this one received mediocre reviews.
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He co-starred with Tim Conway and Don Knotts in the Disney movie The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975). He had also appeared with Dawson on Cop-Out. He was also a panelist on the 1974 revival of Masquerade Party hosted by Richard Dawson.
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He became a popular game show panelist, appearing mostly on Password and The Hollywood Squares.
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In 1973, Bixby starred in The Magician but the series only lasted one season. After the cancellation of Martian, Bixby starred in four box-office movies: Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966), You've Got to Be Kidding (1967), and two of Elvis Presley's movies, Clambake (1967), and Speedway (1968). But by 1966, bad scripts and high production costs forced the series to come to an end after 107 episodes. The show was a ratings winner in its first year, earning tenth place among all primetime shows. His appearance on The Streets of San Francisco earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1976 for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in Drama or Comedy.īixby took the role of young reporter Tim O'Hara in the 1963 CBS sitcom, My Favorite Martian. During the 1970s, he made guest-appearances on TV series such as Ironside, Insight, Barbary Coast, The Love Boat, Medical Center, four episodes of Love, American Style, Fantasy Island and two episodes of The Streets of San Francisco. He also joined the cast of The Joey Bishop Show in 1962. Bixby became a highly regarded character actor and guest-starred in many 1960s TV series including Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Dr. In 1961, Bixby was in the musical The Boyfriend at the Detroit Civic Theater, returning to Hollywood to make his television debut on an episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. In 1959, he was hired to work as a model and to do commercial work for General Motors and Chrysler. He organized shows at a resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved to Hollywood where he had a string of odd jobs that included bellhop and lifeguard. Later, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, just four credits short of earning a degree, Bixby dropped out of college and was drafted into the United States Marine Corps. After graduation from high school in 1952, against his parents' wishes, he majored in drama at San Francisco City College, where he was a classmate of Lee Meriwether. Though he received average grades, he also competed in high school speech tournaments regionally. He attended Lowell High School where he perfected his oratory and dramatic skills as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific. When Bixby was 8, his father enlisted in the U.S. His father, Wilfred Everett Bixby, was a store clerk and his mother, Jane Bixby, was a senior manager at I. He also starred in The Magician (1973) and Goodnight Beantown (1984).Īn only child, he was a fourth-generation Californian of English descent. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk (1978-1982), with Lou Ferrigno on CBS. For the course of his long career, he was best known for his portrayal of Tim O'Hara in My Favorite Martian (1963–1966) on CBS, Tom Corbett, in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969–1972) on ABC and as Dr. Bill Bixby (born Wilfred Bailey Bixby) was an American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist whose career spanned over three decades.
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