- 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.
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