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.

Bixby, a fourth-generation Californian of English descent, was born in San Francisco, California.

His father, Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby Jr., was a store clerk and his mother, Jane ( née McFarland ) Bixby, was a senior manager at I. Magnin & Company.

When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific.

Bixby served stateside duty in the Marines and was honorably discharged.

In 1961, Bixby was in the musical The Boy Friend at the Detroit Civic Theater, returning to Hollywood to make his television debut on an episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

Bixby was nominated for the Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 1971.

After the show was canceled, Bixby and Cruz remained in contact.

Bixby was executive producer and co-star of the short-lived sit-com Goodnight, Beantown ( 1983 – 84 ).

Bixby was married three times.

In early 1991, Bixby was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent treatment.

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.

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

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

The show is noteworthy in that Bixby insisted on doing all of the magic himself, without any trick photography, although it was not possible for this to be the case in the TV-movie / pilot.

Amongst other TV programmes, Greene was in A Man For Loving, The Doctors, The Morecambe and Wise Show, Dixon of Dock Green, Scarf Jack, The Professionals episode Everest Was Also Conquered and the Tales of the Unexpected episode Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat.

In 1915, the Susanna Bixby Bryant Ranch house was constructed.

At Clark the first teacher was Lewis Bixby who got $ 26 a month for five winter months and had to pay his own board.

About a month later, it was known as Bixby.

In February 2007, Steven Bixby was convicted on 17 counts including the two murders, as well as lesser charges of kidnapping and conspiracy.

Contemporary rock writer Robert Bixby stated that the sound of the MC5 was like " a catastrophic force of nature the band was barely able to control ," while Don McLeese notes that fans compared the aftermath of an MC5 performance to the delirious exhaustion experienced after " a street rumble or an orgy.

In 2007, Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth ( as it is now called ) was turned into an independent motion picture executive produced by his son Emerson Bixby, directed by Richard Schenkman and starring David Lee Smith, William Katt, Richard Riehle, Tony Todd, Annika Peterson, Alexis Thorpe, Ellen Crawford and John Billingsley.

Bixby later reprised the role in three television movies: The Incredible Hulk Returns, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, and The Death of the Incredible Hulk.

Later, he and Bixby co-starred in three The Incredible Hulk TV movies.

The Irvine Company grew from the premise of a ranch founded by James Irvine I, Benjamin and Thomas Flint, and Llewellyn Bixby in 1864 from three adjoining Mexican land grants.

For three seasons he was the only contestant in Canadian Idol who had never been in the bottom three or two until Season 5 when Jaydee Bixby made it to the finale without ever being placed in the bottom group.

They produced three made-for-television films: The Incredible Hulk Returns ( directed by Nicholas Corea ), and The Trial of the Incredible Hulk and The Death of the Incredible Hulk ( both directed by Bill Bixby ) Since its debut, The Incredible Hulk series has garnered a worldwide fan base.

Six years after the cancellation of the television series in 1982, three television movies were produced with Bixby and Ferrigno reprising their roles.

Bixby lasted a little over a year ; Malcolm Reiss took over again in September 1951, and three issues later, in March 1952, Jack O ' Sullivan became editor.

Without the presence of Bill Bixby, Susan Clark and the three children, the film was not a success.

It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's ( here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz ) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Consequently, Bixby starred in the pilot movie called The Incredible Hulk, based loosely on the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Marvel comic book characters.

Bixby directed one episode of the series, " Bring Me the Head of the Hulk " in 1980 ( original airdate: January 9, 1981 ).

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

Bill Bixby ( of Incredible Hulk fame ) was brought in to direct numerous episodes.

Cruz continued as a child actor for several years following the demise of The Courtship of Eddie's Father with a number of guest appearances in television shows like Kung Fu, Gunsmoke, and The Incredible Hulk -- which once again reunited him on-screen with Bixby.

The series aired on the CBS television network and starred Bill Bixby as David Banner, Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, and Jack Colvin as Jack McGee.

Bixby and Hartley had previously worked together in an episode of The Incredible Hulk, and at the time of making Goodnight, Beantown, Hartley was appearing in a series of television commercials for Polaroid cameras with James Garner.

The other major superhero series of this era, The Incredible Hulk starring Bill Bixby as David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, took a more thoughtful and dramatic approach.

Conway and Knotts play the leads in the sequel ( The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again ), in which Bixby and the rest of the original cast – with the exception of Harry Morgan as the sheriff – do not appear.

After the cancellation of Martian, Bixby starred in four movies: Ride Beyond Vengeance, Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding, and two of Elvis Presley's movies, Clambake, and Speedway.