Bixby died in 1993 at age 59 while working on Blossom, leaving behind a rich legacy of work—but without the accolades he deserved.
“I think he’s sadly overlooked,” Cruz, now 64, said. “If you think about the talent that he had and what he brought to audiences—if the ultimate goal of Hollywood and television is to reach a vast audience and sell commercials, in his time, no one did it like Bill. He’d go from show to show, and they were all high quality. It wasn’t crap. It wasn’t crazy. Bill brought a certain class to it, and Bill never did anything that kids couldn’t watch.”
Bixby never won an Emmy Award during his three decades as a Hollywood actor and producer. He was also never honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, despite Cruz’s efforts to raise money for a posthumous nomination submission via a long-running GoFundMe campaign.
Bixby played widowed father Tom Corbett alongside Cruz on The Courtship of Eddie’s Father from 1969 to 1972. The two formed an off-camera bond.
“I was raised by wolves. My parents divorced during production on Eddie’s Father,” he shared. “The family on the set really became my family. The first assistant director took me home on the weekends because he had kids, and he gave me as much of a normal life as possible. Bill took me to his house on weekends.”
Cruz stopped acting at a young age and went on to become a surfer and a punk rock singer. But he looked back fondly on his time as Bixby’s son on The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.
“That wasn't real life. It was a TV show,” Cruz continued. “But it gave people who were in similar situations — a single parent, or a child being raised by a single parent — something to watch that kind of took them away from their situation. It took their real-life situation and presented it back to them in a different package. They could relate to it."
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