When she landed the part of Elyse Keaton on the 1980s NBC comedy Family Ties, actor Meredith Baxter Birney (she’s dropped the Birney since then) was elated. The show had buzz and its creator Gary ...

David Birney, a familiar face to ’70s TV audiences with dozens of appearances over five decades, including as the star of “Bridget Loves Bernie,” the short-lived CBS sitcom where he met future wife ...

Actress Meredith Baxter, who played mother Elyse Keaton on 80s TV hit Family Ties, said she was a victim of domestic violence by the hands of her ex-husband David Birney in her new book Untied, and ...

(CBS) - In a new memoir, actress Meredith Baxter claims her "Bridget Loves Bernie" co-star and real-life husband David Birney abused her and struck her more than once. "It was so sudden and unexpected ...

I was watching the Today Show ( again !) this morning, and Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira were teasing a segment with Meredith Baxter Birney, the former matriarch of Family Ties . “Meredith Baxter ...

Claims that he abused herduring their 15-year marriage are "an appalling abuse of the truth," Birney said in a statement to People, in which he called her autobiography, "Untied," "a kind of fairy ...

David Birney thinks ex-wife Meredith Baxter's new memoir belongs in the fiction section. Claims that he abused her during their 15-year marriage are "an appalling abuse of the truth," Birney said in a ...

When Meredith Baxter-Birney talks about Sunday night’s ABC movie Burning Bridges (9 p.m., WPLG-Ch. 10, WPBF-Ch. 25), there is a quiet tone of understanding in her voice. Sometimes she speaks almost in ...

David Birney, who starred with his future wife Meredith Baxter on the CBS sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie, a ratings hit that nonetheless was canceled after one season, has died. He was 83. Birney died on ...

American actress Meredith Baxter Birney and her husband, American actor David Birney, in New York City, New York, circa 1985. (Photo by Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) David Birney ...

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA — David Birney, a television and Broadway actor known for roles in “St. Elsewhere” and “Bridget Loves Bernie” died Friday in his Santa Monica, Calif. home at the age of 83, ...

David Birney, an actor who found early success on Broadway before landing the co-starring role on "Bridget Loves Bernie," a 1972 sitcom that would be one of the most controversial TV shows of its era, ...