Daughter Doris Bickford (b. 1919).
Every time he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, one of his co-stars won the Oscar for Best Actress (Jennifer Jones for The Song of Bernadette (1943), Loretta Young for The Farmer's Daughter (1947) and Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948)).
Interred at Woodlawn Cemetary, Santa Monica, California.
Son Rex Bickford (b. 1924, d. 1960).