Wife: Dor, children: David, Judy, Donald, John, Joan, Deb, Jim, and
Diane. His father was an engineer and his mother a housewife/"stage
mother."
Joseph Depew started his career as a child actor. He was employed on
stage, in film and in television his entire life. As he used to say,
"I've been a workin' man since the age of three, darlin'."
He culminated his career as director of The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), the #1 TV show in the
country at the time. He died a happily retired man surrounded by his
family in 1988 at the age of 76.