Bill Bixby was a popular three-time Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series. His lead television roles were as Ray Walston's young reporter, Tim O'Hara, …

Brandon Edwin Cruz (born May 28, 1962 in Bakersfield, California) was a child actor and is currently a punk rock musician. In the early 1970s, he came to prominence as Bill Bixby's charming and conniving son, Eddie Corbett, in the television show "The Courtship of Eddie's Father". Cruz also played the role of "Joey", the Yankees' pitcher, in the 1976 movie "The Bad News Bears", which starred Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal.

Miyoshi Umeki is an Academy Award-winning actress best known for her roles as Joe Kelly's (Red Buttons) wife, Katsumi in the 1957 movie, "Sayonara", and as Bill Bixby's questionable maid, Mrs. Livingston, in the 1970s dramedy, "The Courtship of Eddie's Father". Umeki began her career as a nightclub singer in Japan under the name Nancy Umeki before moving to the United States.

Dina Merrill (born Nedenia Marjorie Hutton on December 9, 1925) is an American actress and socialite. Born in New York City and educated at Miss Porter's School, she is the only child of Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband Wall Street stockbroker Edward Francis Hutton. She was a sister-in-law of the conductor Leon Barzin.

James Komack (3 August, 1924 - 24 December, 1997), was a prolific US actor, writer and producer. Komack was the guiding force behind such television hits as "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", in which he also appeared as Norman Tinker, "Chico and the Man", and "Welcome Back, Kotter". Komack is credited with discovering and launching the careers of John Travolta and Freddie Prinze.

Jerry Van Dyke (born July 27, 1931, in Danville, Illinois) is an American comedian and actor. He is the younger brother of comedian and actor Dick Van Dyke, and made his acting debut on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" with several guest appearances as Rob Petrie's brother, Stacie. Van Dyke began his stand-up comedy career while still in high school in Danville, and was already a veteran of strip joints and nightclubs when he joined the Air Force Special Services in 1952.

Erin Moran (born October 18, 1960) is an American actress, best known for the role of Joanie Cunningham on "Happy Days" and its spinoff "Joanie Loves Chachi". Moran was born in Burbank, California, the youngest of six children. At the age of six, Moran appeared in her first commercial. She attended Walter Reed Junior High School for one year and North Hollywood High School for another year.

George Aliceson Tipton, also known as George Tipton, is an American composer, musical arranger and conductor. Among Tipton's works are the theme songs for "Benson", "It's a Living", and "Empty Nest", plus incidental music for numerous shows, including "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", "Soap", "The Love Boat", "Heartland", "The Golden Girls" and "The Golden Palace".

Herbert F. Solow has worked in Hollywood as a producer, director, studio executive, talent agent, and writer. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1953 Solow was hired by the William Morris Agency in New York City to work in the mailroom. In 1954 he was promoted to talent agent. Later he was hired by NBC and transferred to Los Angeles in 1960 and was subsequently hired by CBS as Director of Daytime Programs, West Coast.

Ken Marino (born December 19 1968 in Long Island, New York) is an actor known for his starring role in the 2004 film "Love for Rent". He had early success on television as a member of a comedy troupe on the MTV sketch comedy series' "The State" in 1993. He had a recurring role on the TV series "Dawson's Creek" (2001-2002), and in "You Wrote It, You Watch It" (1992), and starred in the cult film "Wet Hot American Summer" (2001).

Vincent Van Patten, is an American actor. He is the youngest son of actor Dick Van Patten and his wife, Pat, née Poole, a former June Taylor dancer. Van Patten was first urged into showbusiness at age nine by his father’s agent. A commercial for Colgate toothpaste was followed by more than thirty other commercials before his father was cast in the TV series, "Arnie", and moved his family from Long Island to Los Angeles.

Lisa Gerritsen (born December 21, 1957) is an actor and computer systems consultant/networking specialist.. She was born Lisa Orszag, and is the grand-daughter of screenwriter True Boardman and Virginia True Boardman. Ms. Gerritsen's acting career began when she was eight years old. Encouraged by her mother and grandfather, and after running the gauntlet of numerous casting calls, she landed her first professional role in an episode of "The Doris Day Show" in 1968.

Jeffrey Hayden (born in New York City, New York, 1926) is an American television director and producer. His career as a director began in the late 1950s, when he directed the only feature film to his credit, "The Vintage" (1957), starring Pier Angeli and Mel Ferrer. He then turned to television, beginning with episodes of "Leave It to Beaver" and "77 Sunset Strip". Hayden went on to direct a wide variety of shows throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, …

Lisa Kirk (February 25 1925 - November 11 1990) was an American actress and singer. Born as Elise Marie Kirk in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, she enrolled as a law student at the University of Pittsburgh but abandoned her studies when she was offered a spot in the chorus line at the Versailles nightclub in Manhattan. She made her Broadway debut in "Allegro" in 1947, …

The son of a sales clerk and a department store owner, Bill Bixby was the sixth-generation Californian born as Wilfred Bailey Bixby, on January 22, 1934, in San Francisco, California. An only child growing up in the 1940s and 1950s, he attended schools in the same area, took ballroom dance lessons, before attending Lowell High School, where he excelled in drama. After his graduation from high school, he attended San Francisco City College where he majored in drama. He transferred to the...