Wilfred Bailey Everett “ Bill ” Bixby III ( January 22, 1934 − November 21, 1993 ) was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist.

In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

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* The Return of the Sorcerer was adapted for an episode of the television series Night Gallery, starring Vincent Price and Bill Bixby.

* 1934 – Bill Bixby, American actor ( d. 1993 )

In 1977, Ferrigno was cast in the title role opposite Bill Bixby as the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk.

* November 21 – Bill Bixby, American actor ( b. 1934 )

** Bill Bixby, American actor and director ( My Favorite Maritan, The Courtship of Eddie's Father and The Incredible Hulk ) ( d. 1993 )

It starred Bill Bixby as stage illusionist Anthony " Tony " Blake, a playboy philanthropist who used his skills to solve difficult crimes as needed.

* Bill Bixby as the tattooed sailor

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

The show featured several guest stars that went on to star in their own series, including Andy Griffith, Joey Bishop, and Bill Bixby.

Other television programmes have utilised the same formula of a magician helping police to solve crimes, such as the U. S .- made programmes The Magician, starring Bill Bixby, which aired in 1973-74, and 1986's short-lived Blacke's Magic, starring Hal Linden.

Guest stars included: Leslie Nielsen, James Woods, Nick Nolte, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cal Bellini, Marshall Colt, Pat Conway, Patty Duke, Richard Egan, Richard Eastham, Don Keefer, Flip Mark, John Ritter, Robert Wagner, Rick Nelson, Wayne Maunder, Dick Van Patten, Mark Hamill, Stefanie Powers, Martin Sheen, Tom Bosley, Tom Selleck, Larry Hagman, Bill Bixby, John Davidson, Eve McVeagh, Johnny Corn, Norman Fell, Anthony Geary, Charles Aidman, Beverly Washburn, Michael Constantine, Paul Michael Glaser, David Soul, and Meredith Baxter, among many others.

* 1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.

The film was followed by Broadway Bill ( 1934 ), another screwball comedy, this one about horse racing.

In 1934, Bill Woodfull led Australia back to England on a tour that had been under a cloud after the tempestuous cricket diplomacy of the previous bodyline series.

* 1934 – Bill Gothard, American minister and speaker

They had three children: Salvatore " Bill " Bonanno, born 1932 ; Catherine, born 1934 ; and Joseph Charles Jr., born 1945.

Originally, Frank Capra intended to make Lost Horizon after Broadway Bill ( 1934 ), but lead actor Ronald Colman couldn't get out of his other filming commitments.

The Senate Bill ( S. 3285 ) passed the House on June 1, 1934, and the conference report was adopted by both houses eight days later.

Scripts were written by Ted Osborne ( 1934 – 49 ), Merrill De Maris ( 1934 – 42 ), Dick Shaw ( 1942 – 43 ), Bill Walsh ( 1943 – 64 ), Roy Williams ( 1964 ) and Del Connell ( 1968 – 82 ).

By contrast, under Neil McBain and subsequently Bill Findlay, the team recorded five consecutive top six finishes between 1934 – 35 and 1938 – 39, and won the Football League Third Division South Cup in 1937.

* Bill Smith ( left-handed pitcher ) ( 1934 – 1997 ), American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, 1958 – 59 ; 1962

* Plaquemine was the birthplace of Major League Baseball Pitcher Bill Lee, who pitched from 1934 – 1947 for the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies and the Boston Braves.

( Bill ) Pape was appointed and served until 1934.

* Bill Moyers ( born 1934 ), journalist and commentator.

He also starred in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Grand Canary ( 1934 ), Broadway Bill ( 1934 ) and Kidnapped ( 1938 ).

* Bill Douglas ( 1934 – 1991 ), Scottish film director

Bill Moyers ( born June 5, 1934 ) is an American journalist and public commentator.

" Bill " Dodd graduated from then Louisiana Normal in 1934, the year that A. A. Fredericks became the president.

Wilhelmus Nicholaas Theodore Marie " Bill " Vander Zalm ( born May 29, 1934 ) is a politician and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada.

William Charles " Bill " Fitch ( born May 19, 1934 ) is an American former National Basketball Association ( NBA ) coach who has been successful in making teams playoff contenders throughout his coaching career.

John Edward Brownlee was born August 27, 1883 in Port Ryerse, Ontario, to William " Bill " James Brownlee ( 1856 – 1934 ) and Christina Brownlee ( née Shaw ) ( c. 1860 – 1941 ).