Bill Bixby Net Worth

Bill Bixby's Quotes

• Everyone fantasizes. We all want to be something we're not.
• I have learned that there is no way to succeed in anything unless you are willing to try--and trying means you run the risk of failure.
• [on receiving the script for The Incredible Hulk (1977) pilot] I didn't even like the title. I wanted to make fun of it because of its name. I told my agent, "You've got to be kidding!" when he suggested I might be interested in it. He said, "Read it!" and so I took it home and thanks to his intelligence, I did read it. Right away I knew this could be done in the style of the monster pictures or the creature films of the 1940s. But one advantage we enjoy over the previous monster pictures is that the Hulk is not evil.
• I'm a loner as a person, but then I always was, even as a child.
• [on the cancellation of The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969)]: I cannot tell you how disappointed I was. I wanted that series to go on to the point when it came to the teenage stage and we could deal with these problems in an honest contemporary way. But our time slot was changed so often we weren't given a fighting chance. You can't expect people to find you at home when you change your address so often.

Interesting Facts about Bill Bixby

1. Born at 11:20 p.m. PST.
2. Cremated and ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii, USA.
3. After he filed for a divorce from his first wife (Brenda Benet), his 6-year-old son died of a rare infection and, a year later, his ex-wife took her own life.
4. After graduating from Lowell High School, he attended San Francisco College to pursue a major in acting. He was asked to go to the University of California-Berkeley to major in pre-law, but dropped out.
5. Classmate of Lee Meriwether
6. Actor Brandon Cruz's son Lincoln Bixby Cruz was named after him.
7. When The Incredible Hulk (1977) debuted, he was worried that his son Christopher would be scared to see his father turning into a green creature. Therefore, he wouldn't let the boy watch the show.
8. Member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
9. Son of Wilfred Bailey Everett Jr. and Jane Bixby; he was their only child.
10. Was an accomplished artist.
11. Was a contestant on The Dating Game (1965) three times, but never won a date.
12. Was three credits shy of graduating from college at the University of California-Berkeley.
13. Before he was a successful actor and director, he worked as a lifeguard and a bellhop.
14. Met his third wife, Judith Kliban, in Hawaii, just before his 59th birthday. [1993].
15. Was a professional magician.
16. Appeared frequently as a panelist on The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965).
17. Tom Corbett, Bixby's character on The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969), was ranked #15 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
18. Loni Anderson, a close friend of his, wrote a tribute in her book about his final days, prior to working on the set of Blossom (1990). Before he died, she saw him regularly only when he was visiting Nurses (1991).
19. His grandfather, Wilfred Everett, was a physician and surgeon, and was a University of California-Davis graduate in 1907.
20. He had 12 hobbies: painting, magic, sailing, hiking, fishing, swimming, farming, jogging, golfing, photography, cooking and carpentry.