Cremated and ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii, USA.
Five days after his 18th birthday, he signed up for the Marine Corps Reserve; while he was a senior in high school. He was honorably discharged on April 8, 1957.
Future actors, weathermen and game show announcers Nicolas Cage, Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Carey, Pat Finn, Rich Fields and Randy West, all said Bixby was one of their childhood television heroes.
Graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco, California, in 1952.
He appeared in three popular television shows that ran for at least three years: "My Favorite Martian" (1963), "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (1969) and "The Incredible Hulk" (1978).
He had 12 hobbies: painting, magic, sailing, hiking, fishing, swimming, farming, jogging, golfing, photography, cooking and carpentry.
His "The Incredible Hulk" (1978) co-star, Lou Ferrigno, stated on his own website that Bixby was one of his acting teachers.
His ex-"The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (1969) co-star, Brandon Cruz, was reunited with Bixby on an episode of Bixby's "The Incredible Hulk" (1978). Cruz played a teenaged boy who happened to know a lot about planes before Dr. Banner landed the plane.
His father, Wilfred Bailey Everett Jr., died on 6/4/1971...just 4 weeks before Bill & Brenda were married.
His grandfather, Wilfred Everett, was a physician and surgeon, and was a University of California-Davis graduate in 1907.
In The Incredible Hulk (2008), Bixby can be seen in an episode of "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (1969) as Dr. Banner (Edward Norton) flips through television channels. Bixby was also, of course, the original Dr. Banner.
Member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Met Brenda Benet at a beauty pageant. At the time he was 29 and she was only 18.
Met his third and final wife, Judith Kliban, in Hawaii, just before his 59th birthday. [1993]
Of English descent.
Remained friends with Lou Ferrigno, during and after "The Incredible Hulk" (1978).
Remained good friends with Brandon Cruz during and after "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (1969). The friendship became that much stronger after the death of Bixby's son Christopher in 1981.
Shared the same birthday as actress Piper Laurie, and was two-years younger than her.
Son of Wilfred Bailey Everett Jr. and Jane Bixby, he was their only child.
Starred in a pilot with Barbara Feldon that has never been aired.